Bringing a neglected lawn back to life

pinkfloydian

Hi,
I've had a dog for the last 13 years so the lawn has not been properly maintained. Unfortunately my dog has passed and I now am looking at how to revive the lawn.
I'm not good at gardening, so I was wondering if I could get some advice or even a recommend of a really good book or website for reviving a lawn.

My issues are as follows (garden is south facing):-
1) weeds
2) moss
3) I have Photinia at southern end of garden which is about 8' high, so that end of the lawn gets very little sunlight. This is where most of the moss is. Also, the ground here is very soft (ladder sinks in about 2" when I try to cut photinia).

Thanks,
T

SCOL

first thing spray the garden to kill the weeds ( only the weeds) , leave it for a few weeks to recover and then put a moss killer
don't cut too short and it will come on over the winter.

Now Waite for the everyone to come back about chemicals sprays !!! but it the quickest and easiest way to treat.

magicbastarder

that looks way healthier than i expected after reading the post!
yes, there's a few weeds in it. but that lawn looks fine to me.

is the softness permanent? we've had quite a lot of wet weather recently.

pinkfloydian

Thanks.

Spray with what?

Yes - the softness appears to be permanent. My guess is that the area never gets the sun.

T

um7y1h83ge06nx

My lawn had been weak and plagued with creeping buttercups for years. This year I decided to finally sort it.

Here's what I did, not saying it's the recommended way but worked in my case:

Cut it.
Sprayed with agri weed killer - Hygeia Hygrass but lots of different stuff out there.
Waited 4 or 5 weeks, cut it and then scarified it with a hand scarifier.
Spread lawn seed particularly over the area that were now bare due to dead and removed weeds.
About two weeks later I spread 18-6-12 agri fertiliser to strengthen the grass.

Best it's ever looked and had people comment on the transformation.

Zak Flaps

First thing, very sorry about your dog passing. As a dog lover, I know how sad it is to lose one.

This guy (based in N. Ireland) has lots of videos about lawn care:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PremierlawnsniCoUk/videos

UK based guy:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GardenLawncareGuy/videos

UK based:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLawnGuy/videos

You should get handy tips and tricks from these guys.

Conflats

Couple of things
1)control the weeds (you can get granular weed and feed for the lawns) check out the local garden centre
2)use iron sulphate to kill the moss-rake out the dead moss after a few days (it'll turn black)
3)use a low nitrogen based fertilser or else you will be cutting it every few days. 7n-6p-17k type (often used for potatoes)

Dipsomaniac

Hi. Can I jump in on this with one question. My garden is similar to the above in the description but looks a lot worse. When is the best time to start this process, is now a good or bad time?
Thanks

SCOL

Spraying can only be done it the growing season, so it too late now, however if your planning on sowing grass do it within the next few weeks, and then this gives it time to grow over the winter ( I've planted seed up to November ) when spring comes it will be strong
and then spot spray the weeds.