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  mark thomas April 25, 2014 at 5:06pm

  Did it look like that before you cut it, or has it turned like that after you've cut
  It recently.
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  Roy Parker April 25, 2014 at 5:09pm

  yes it been like it since i started cutting it 6 weeks ago i applied a nitrogen fert 2 weeks ago to try to green it up but it has not worked so far it came out of winter like this
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  mark thomas April 25, 2014 at 5:13pm

  Was it long to start with ? Did you cut it right down first cut ?
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  Graeme @ BGS April 25, 2014 at 5:16pm

  Have you taken a soil sample from some of the badly effected areas?
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  Roy Parker April 25, 2014 at 5:21pm

  no it has never really grown since winter first cut i took no more than 20 mm off and the same every cut since
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  Graeme @ BGS April 25, 2014 at 5:24pm

  Pictures would help plus have a peek at what is happening below the ground
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  Roy Parker April 25, 2014 at 5:24pm

  some one said that they thought it was Fusarium ??
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  mark thomas April 25, 2014 at 5:27pm

  I would just wait till the fert kicks in, see what it's like in 4 weeks, maybe some of
  The grasses have died off, poor rooting ? Is there much soil depth ?
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  David Hedges-Gower April 25, 2014 at 5:53pm

  If it's fusarium and you've just fed it....be prepared for more disease. Pics will help, but there's brown patches and born patches. Fusarium is more orange, it could be larvae damage from crane fly larvae, it could be chafer damage, it could be that the fescue grasses that produce lots of dead leaves, could suddenly be cut a little shorter than it has done and is now showing lots of dead organic matter. Mower could be blunt, could be dead plants caused by either fus over winter.
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  mark thomas April 25, 2014 at 7:10pm

  Don't think it's any disease it's too constant over the area, like David said fescue died off
  Over winter, check the blade, grass looks stressed with short cutting, lift the mower up a setting for the next 4 weeks should improve once the feeds have kicked in, you could always lightly scari the dead grasses out once the grass gets established...