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Looks like it could possibly be a very very blunt lawnmower blade tearing the tops of the grass?
Then the sun dries off the stringy battered ends and it looks like that..... hmmm thats the only thing I can think of.
Would say the same as above.
Looks like the blade of the mower has 'dropped' and cut down into the stalk of the grass.
Is it a creeping bent grass lawn ?
The above photos do not look to be red thread. More likely a blade issue.
What mower were you using, Robbie, or does the customer cut it and if so with what? If you only did the treatments in April/May and June, when did the symptoms appear?
Compaction on regular tracks of mower wheels?
looks like the grass has been long and is full of moss then cut down to the normal height with a blunt blade and the last couple of week of dry sunny weather has scorched the moss
We don't do 'week of sunny weather' in NI. 3 days max, every 10 years or so!
But that does sound like a runner.
Thanks for your help guys, I think it has been a combination of things.
It's always cut in the same direction. (In the wet), the grass is all matted & the lawn mower blade is blunt.
I have told the customer, that they will require the gardener to cut in a different direction every cut and buy a new blade for his lawn mower or at least get it sharpened!
I will be aerating, scarfing & overseeding in the next week or so.