2022 Lawn Thread
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dhutch said:
wiggy001 said:
I need some help!
The 4 or 5 brown patches are now 10-12 large brown patches... I really need some help here! All the advice online suggests either training puppy to go in one place (not easy) or diluting his pee with water which is what we are doing. We are using the hose on his pee the second he finishes, giving it a good 30 seconds plus of water each time. On top of this the lawn is being watered with the sprinkler daily. As it is a new lawn (3 weeks) I've only cut it once so far on the highest setting. And yet we are still seeing more and more of it dying off in round circles of browness.
There must be something else/more I can do other than accept it?!
I feel your pain, I really do. The 4 or 5 brown patches are now 10-12 large brown patches... I really need some help here! All the advice online suggests either training puppy to go in one place (not easy) or diluting his pee with water which is what we are doing. We are using the hose on his pee the second he finishes, giving it a good 30 seconds plus of water each time. On top of this the lawn is being watered with the sprinkler daily. As it is a new lawn (3 weeks) I've only cut it once so far on the highest setting. And yet we are still seeing more and more of it dying off in round circles of browness.
There must be something else/more I can do other than accept it?!
However as far as I know, as I've posted recently, the options really basically are stop the weeing on and or dilute the best you can.
The best ours got is when my partner took the dogs for a walk every morning, which avoided the big morning piss ending up on the grass!
This is our lawn with two male hounds. Brown patch, rake it out and add soil+seed mix, dark green patches are the 'recovered' areas which fade over the months.
A younger lawn will be more sensitive, as I fine will lawn in drier weather. We use Lawnsmiths Staygreen, which promotes itself as a deep rooted mix, suitable for good drought resistance and improved dog urine resistance.
Thanks
Two months since I went lawn OCD, here's the results.
It's quite a small lawn, so it has a single pop-up sprinkler which waters the grass every evening for 20 minutes. Fertilised with some 24-4-4 +10 sulphur stuff I got on ebay (amazing results after about a week, the grass grows like crazy). Mower is a Zephyr Greens 12" hand push jobbie. Cut daily
It's quite a small lawn, so it has a single pop-up sprinkler which waters the grass every evening for 20 minutes. Fertilised with some 24-4-4 +10 sulphur stuff I got on ebay (amazing results after about a week, the grass grows like crazy). Mower is a Zephyr Greens 12" hand push jobbie. Cut daily
Timothy Bucktu said:
jagnet said:
A cracking choice there. Nicely engineered little mower and rarer than the Ransomes/Webb equivalents. I'm an avid reader of this thread and recently took the advice to use lawnsmith products rather than the all-in-one weed killer/feed.
Used their spring/summer fertiliser a few weeks ago, and have others lined up for autumn and winter.
Anyway, about time after all the reading, I shared my lawn. I get the stripes using my flymo
, no roller mower as yet 
.Dead patches have been appearing recently- not obvious from the photo although one is visible on the left hand side. They look like dog wee patches but we've not got a dog! Any ideas? Fox wee? Overapplication of fertiliser in places? They vary in size up to around 6 inches diameter(ish).
This is the stuff I use...incredible results. But with 27% nitrogen, it's like sprinkling Viagra on your grass and it needs watering daily!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112770169422
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112770169422
The Count said:
How low are we all cutting grass? I've left mine longer and it just looks a little untidy after a higher cut.
Long.The only downside with the Roller version of the Honda HRX 476 is that the cut height is 19-58mm rather than 25-79mm. So I'm this weather, on sandstone, I'm on the absolute max, and basically avoiding mowing the bit under the pines (which isn't really growing at this time of year anyway).
I have also given a few worse off areas a one-off deep water, now that is basically hasn't rained for a month. I give it an hour on, hour off, three times and then it's on its own again.
number2 said:
Lovely looking lawn you have there Timothy - I am envious!
I'm an avid reader of this thread and recently took the advice to use lawnsmith products rather than the all-in-one weed killer/feed.
Used their spring/summer fertiliser a few weeks ago, and have others lined up for autumn and winter.
Anyway, about time after all the reading, I shared my lawn. I get the stripes using my flymo, no roller mower as yet .
Dead patches have been appearing recently- not obvious from the photo although one is visible on the left hand side. They look like dog wee patches but we've not got a dog! Any ideas? Fox wee? Overapplication of fertiliser in places? They vary in size up to around 6 inches diameter(ish).
Ours looked like this a few years ago.I'm an avid reader of this thread and recently took the advice to use lawnsmith products rather than the all-in-one weed killer/feed.
Used their spring/summer fertiliser a few weeks ago, and have others lined up for autumn and winter.
Anyway, about time after all the reading, I shared my lawn. I get the stripes using my flymo
, no roller mower as yet .Dead patches have been appearing recently- not obvious from the photo although one is visible on the left hand side. They look like dog wee patches but we've not got a dog! Any ideas? Fox wee? Overapplication of fertiliser in places? They vary in size up to around 6 inches diameter(ish).
With so little rain this year, and a change of law local (can't get the good weedkiller stuff in Luxembourg any longer = illegal!), ours is looking pretty bare in places, and overall it's quite brown.
I've a lot of hard landscaping to do in Autumn and Spring (hedge planting, proper base for a new shed, a deck, etc.), so I'll put more time in to the grass next year.
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