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I think your right its been so wet lately on top of snow. I have a customer I picked up last May, 200sqM lawn. Their last 'gardener' decided it was best practice to use weed & feed broadcast by hand. Half the lawn was destroyed, I worked bloody hard repairing it, whole areas 10Msq totally burnt off. They didn't want it relaid, so scarified etc. In autumn I took 8 tonne bags of thatch out of it, re-seeded as required & it was looking good. Even a few weeks ago it was fine & then all of a sudden half of it is moss. Its been too wet to even walk on some area's lately. Now the client tells me it's probably because it's 50mm of CLAY laid on top of hardcore or something because it used to be a farm yard or something. ARRGGHHH, why do we bother!
its the weather use lawn sand to kill it off then scarifie
Also aerate to reduce moss build up !
Seems the weekend papers have a view on this ;)
Ha!- Fantastic!! So just leave it :)
I had a quote last year at this time from a guy who wanted me to look at his dad's lawn as it was full of moss. I went to look, and it was at least 80% moss. I advised him that removing the moss would pretty much destroy the lawn, and judging by the heavy clay soil, and shade it would be a constant battle aginst moss even if he got it returfed.
To this he said he didn't mind the moss too much, as it was green, and felt nice to walk on. His son was the one who though it needed removing. I recommended he left it alone then, as it wasnt going to get any worse, and it was indeed nice to walk on :)
Yep, until the chafer grub take over then you'll have to lift the lot. Stitch in time..and all that
Arghh!!
Well I don't do returfing, which would have been needed really, so I left it up to the owner.
You won't find many chafers in heavy clay soil, Sandy soils are their preferred habitat