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| Last Fall parts of my lawn started thinning out. This continued this year where grass turned to hay and large areas became bare. I put down two treatments of funguscide and grubicide. I then put down a 2 inch top layer of loam seeded, fetilized, limed and rolled. Grass came in beautifully but the areas that had first shown thinning lost the deep green color of the rest of the new lawn and became light to yellowish green. I first though that this was improper fertilizing but it appears not.
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| You're dancing all around the likely culprit. If your car were acting up, would you start changing parts at random, or get the car tested and find out what the problem was? Get a good soil test from Logan Labs or UMASS and find out what is wrong. If grass fails once, putting new seed down is asking for a repeat problem. |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Mon, Nov 21, 11 at 23:50
| Oh my! Did you ask someone for advice before doing what you did? There are many things you can apply to your soil but fungicide is the most damaging. You can recover if you know what you did, but it sounds like you did not. Since you applied a grubicide, added inches of topsoil, and the problem recurred, it seems unlikely that grubs were a problem. Is it possible the grass just dried up and died? If you kept it irrigated, then it could be the fungus you had (assuming that was right) was not killed out and has spread into the new soil. What kind of grass do you have? Did the 2 inches of new soil change your drainage? I should probably rephrase that. How did the 2 inches of soil change your drainage? Do you now have water standing in puddles in some places? Near the house, fences or other structures? I brought in 2 inches of sand several years ago, but that was for the sole purpose of changing my drainage. Addressing drainage should be your first concern. |
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