Has my husband killed our new lawn?

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Hope someone can put my mind at rest on this. Last year we laid turf to the back and front gardens resulting in a beautiful lush green lawn. Last weekend my husband put some lawn dressing on both lawns to keep them in tip top condition. One week on what we now have are lawns that have huge dead patches everywhere. Has my husband killed our lawn?

[sweetleaf]

Could he have put on weed and feed? (feeds the grass kills the weeds) if you look closely at the lawn it may have just killed moss and weeds.
Hope I`m right because if I am it will soon right itself.

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Thanks for replying. There wasn't any weeds or moss present when he put the dressing on, I believe it contained a feed as well as a treatment for moss. We've had torrential rain this afternoon so am hoping the lawn will quickly recover. Just as well we were not having a BBQ planned, the lawns look awful and before the feed they were a lush green, just goes to show, perhaps we should have left well alone!!

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Tuppence

It all depends on how long ago the turf was laid but a lot of feed & weed treatments say that they shouldn't be put onto lawns less than 6 or 12 months old.

It could also be that the stuff you used needed to be watered in really well and it hasn't been. This can sometimes lead to "scorching" of the grass.

Grass is pretty resilient stuff, though. Keep an eye on it now it's had a good watering in and see how it goes. If necessary, you can always patch up any bare spots with a good quality grass seed.

Regards
FA x

[oldmoleskins]

Everthing said before is right, but if it doesn't show signs of regrowth really quickly - say 7 -10 days - then I'd say it's probably best to bite the bullet, go back to the supplier and patch in with new turf of the same 'provenence'.

It's cheap, it's as instant as anything is in gardening and it will make you feel a whole lot better

Take it out of his pocketmoney.

OM.

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Well we bit the bullet and at the w/e we scattered grass seed on all of the bare patches and will leave it to it's own devices, with rain forecast we hope it won't be too long before the lawn recovers.
It still looks a complete mess but a lesson learned here, a new lawn, a summer heatwave, cutting the grass too low, scarifying which resulted in pulling up the grass roots leaving huge bare patches on the majority of the lawn and last but not least, applying lawn dressing in September when the weather was still extremely hot probably caused the lawn to scorch.
Hubby is not allowed to tinker anymore, he is to leave well alone and only to pull out weeds where necessary, when the grass seed germinates that is!!