Dumb question. My lawn is damaged and looks like your picture in the top left. Did you remove all of this down to the dirt before overseeding or did you go right over the top of it?
Torin said:
Dumb question. My lawn is damaged and looks like your picture in the top left. Did you remove all of this down to the dirt before overseeding or did you go right over the top of it?
I removed it, and let me tell you, it was a Herculean effort. What started as a solo mission quickly turned into something beyond one man’s capacity. The sheer amount of dead material pulled up by the dethatcher was overwhelming—enough to make even the most determined soul question his choices. In the end, I had to enlist some help, because no mere mortal should face that mountain of debris alone.
Very beautiful and great dedication by the way.
wow, so awesome. Literally breathtaking.
What seed did you use?
Storm said:
What seed did you use?
Combat Extreme™ Transition Zone
Congrats, amazing how effort and work tends to pay off!
Wow that looks amazing
Awesome!!! Looks great!
What zone are you in, and what seed did you use? And any other special tricks beyond fertilizer? Did you top dress with soil or peat moss or anything? Details please!
Devon said:
What zone are you in, and what seed did you use? And any other special tricks beyond fertilizer? Did you top dress with soil or peat moss or anything? Details please!
Zone 7a
Devon said:
What zone are you in, and what seed did you use? And any other special tricks beyond fertilizer? Did you top dress with soil or peat moss or anything? Details please!
Did not use top dress or peat moss it was just too much as almost the entire 15k foot square lawn were destroyed.
Devon said:
What zone are you in, and what seed did you use? And any other special tricks beyond fertilizer? Did you top dress with soil or peat moss or anything? Details please!
[Peat moss is a good soil amendment but a poor choice for seed cover. It causes long term issues that alternatives don’t.]
Congrats! Outstanding
I’m in 7a and I just finished my lawn revival project today. Mowed short, dethached, leveled with a mix of topsoil, compost and sand, then seeded with TwinCity’s Blue Resilience, and top dressed with peat moss. I have not fertilized yet, but will soon. Now setting the irrigation to run 3 times per day. Fingers crossed!
So how did just mowing it wet cause this? I never mow wet, but I didn’t realize this was a problem other than clumps.
@Dex
My neighbor later confessed that he’d watched helplessly as they mowed my lawn while it was still soaking wet. He said he was torn—on one hand, watching my lawn turn into a battlefield of clumps and chaos, and on the other, not wanting to ruin my holiday by telling me that my yard was starting to look like a war zone. The wet grass piled up in uneven heaps, smothering everything underneath.
Of course, the uneven cut didn’t help, leaving the lawn looking like it had been through a ragged battle, with jagged patches all over. The soggy ground compacted beneath the weight of the mower, squeezing out any chance of proper airflow. And, to top it all off, I half expected to find some fungal colonies thriving in the aftermath. It was a perfect storm of everything you should never do to your lawn—and all of it happened while I was blissfully unaware, sipping drinks far away from this grassy disaster.
@Marlow
Your lawn looks great, your writing style is better. Awesome on all counts!
@Dex
Peat moss is a good soil amendment but a poor choice for seed cover. It causes long term issues that alternatives don’t.
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@Dex
Clumps are bad obviously, but also:
Mowing creates open wounds on the grass, microscopic openings where the plant cells are open and exposed. It takes a few hours for those wounds to heal up when they’re dry. While they’re still fresh, those wounds provide an easy opening for diseases to infiltrate into the grass.
When grass is cut while it’s wet, it takes longer for the wounds to heal AND while the grass is wet, diseases are more active to begin with.
So basically, mowing while wet makes grass more susceptible to diseases.