Bought my first house and spent a few quid getting the garden sorted which included levelling out the lawn and returfing it.
At first, the grass looked great but, a month later or so, there was the odd weed popping up. 3 Months on and there's weeds coming through everywhere, and now there even mushrooms growing. I've been cutting it about every two weeks...
Mushrooms are a good sign the soil has fungi. They are the fruiting bodies of fungi, so mushrooms/good.
One thing to do with weeds in the turf is to keep it mowed fast enough so no weed goes to seed. Unfortunately, when you disturb the soil by leveling, it awakens seeds which may have been laying there for a good, long while. Keep them mowed. You may want to do a search on corn gluten meal. It is a natural fraction of the corn which causes a fungi in the soil (again good) which stops seeds from germination. It works very well if you apply it as suggested.
If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.
Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.
And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.
The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.
Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth.
If you use Roundup on the lawn, it kills the lawn also. It's non-specific and kills all things green, sans the nutsedge or few other pesky things uneffected by glyphosate.
inchy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@gardenbanter.co.uk:
if the kids are stupid enough to be putting things in their mouths without asking if they are edible, there's a bigger problem than a few mushrooms in the lawn.
The point is inchy is that you are trying to fix something you don't understand. Much of the soil on this planet has been killed or damaged by thoughtless people who were just reading the application instructions and had no idea about the consequences of their actions. Mushrooms and fungi breakdown dead material (otherwise we'ed be up to our armpits in the stuff) into products that are nutrients to other plants. Work with the mushrooms. Your best advice came from Pat Kiewicz. "If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.
Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.
And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.
The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.
Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth. "
So you can work with nature for the health of the planet or you can be dependent on fossil fuels in the form of biocides and make Monsanto happy.
The point is inchy is that you are trying to fix something you don't understand. Much of the soil on this planet has been killed or damaged by thoughtless people who were just reading the application instructions and had no idea about the consequences of their actions.
"Bacteria" and fungi breakdown dead material (otherwise we'ed be up to our armpits in the stuff) into products that are nutrients to other plants. Work with the mushrooms.
Your best advice came from Pat Kiewicz. "If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.
Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.
And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.
The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.
Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth. "
So you can work with nature for the health of the planet or you can be dependent on fossil fuels in the form of biocides and make Monsanto happy.
Thanks for that constructive comment you tosser. Kids are kids, they do random stuff like that. Like a 2 yr old is going to ask permission... I pity your kids, sounds like they have to ask permission to breathe.
Thanks for the other comments guys - I'll just try to mow it more often and see how it goes.
Two year olds need constant attention to insure that they don't do dumb shit. Pay attention to your toddler and don't allow them to be in unsafe and questionable areas.
Heh heh, not bloody likely. I would hazard a guess that lee paid attention and taught her children well.
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