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it looks like a fungal disease it seems a bit white for red thred unless the photo was taken in the dark with a flash as the fencing looks a bit pail in places
any idea what the grass was like befor
No. This was sent from a potential new customer on a new build estate where I take care of about 40+ properties. The picture isn't the best as it a picture of a picture. Sorry.
But from experience I know the entire estate suffers from leatherjackets. But she has said there are no tell tail signs, of them.
So then I thought it's just the heat we've been having. But she assures me it's, been Watered twice a day. Morning and evening, since it was laid a few months bac and it's Always been patchy like this.
Given that, I thought ground contamination. But again, I'm not aware of any other cases of ground contamination on her estate. I could be localised contamination. I guess?
I've advised her I can't really do anything yet as I don't know the cause. But suggested she waits until we get some sustained cooler and wetter weather to see if it improves by itself.
I was just wondering what you guys thought
I have two possible causes that I can think of. Having laid thousands of square metres of turf over the years, I have very occasionally seen it where small patches just go brown, even in less heat than we are experiencing now.
So firstly it often because the turf, for whatever reason, the turf has lifted very slightly and is not in complete contact with the soil underneath. Often this is due to drying out and lifting. Maybe in this case because the ground was not firmed up enough and has now settled in small areas under the turf.
Even if watered the roots cannot take properly and as there is a slight gap which thus allows the turf to rapidly dry out again after watering.
The solution it to ‘re-plank’ the turf or go round and frim up these areas just by walking on them.
A second possibility could well be this. Most people don’t understand just how much water new turf needs and especially when it is very dry. It needs a lot of water applied before it will soak through to the top soil underneath. A substantial amount more than more than most people think.
I always used to tell the client that they could not over water it, but they could easily under water the turf.
I have had my sprinkler on every evening over recent weeks. I landscaped mine back in February [after the new extension] and used winter grass seed. It is now very well established and looks really good. But with new turf in drought conditions I should think that the sprinkler would need to be on at least all night. My bet is that they just haven’t watered it anywhere near enough.
Thanks Vic. I concour with everything you've said. Much appreciated 👍
Next time you visit check to see if only the fine grasses have been affected if so it's basically red thread it's come early this season noticed it in June where normally it effects the lawns in august give it a feed and keep watering.....
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