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Is your lawn dead already?
I'm sooooo annoyed. As most of you know, I am currently living sans DH, and I have been working my a$$ off to keep everything at the house in proper working order, planting a million flowers, etc.
All of the sudden, in the last two weeks, my lawn is FRIED. I have watered it, but probably not as much as I should have - and really think that it is our $hitty HOA employed landscaper who has destroyed it (he happened to fertilize two weeks ago, right before all of the dead patches appeared). Most of the houses in the development's lawns look like crap and I guess I am just looking for a right to blame this idiot.... rather than our lack of watering... I know its been hot, and this whole week has been really dry... but its June 7th.... I've never started watering this early.
Tell me all about your lush, green lawn so we can get rid of this donut. We have a 30 day outclause on his contract....
Re: Is your lawn dead already?
I can't help you but I want to complain too, please!
We have a 100% shade yard. It's so annoying. We've planted four kinds of grass in the four years we've lived here (from seed, from sod, ourselves, hired people to do it... you name it) and nothing will grow. Or, if we had 10 little sprigs of grass, the HOA landscapers would use a sit-down mower to mow our postage stamp size TH yard full of mostly mud and 10 little sprigs of grass (why?!). So this year, we went in with a neighbor and paid $300 for the landscapers to install shade groundcover. At least it will be green!
So now what happens? In a fit of unable-to-grow-anything fury, our neighbor cut down his (perfectly healthy) pear tree that is the whole reason we are 100% shade. So we went from 100% shade to 100% sun... if we had known he'd do that, we wouldn't have paid good money to install shade-loving groundcover that looks like weeds!! AAAGHHH! We're so done.
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Gosh darn it, I knew it. I'm glad your lawn is green.....
We have spend sooooooo much $$ on TrueGreen and the lawn has been gorgeous (if not a little patchy in some places). Gah.
Oh that totally sucks.
Flipping people. They suck.
DH has had the automatic sprinklers on twice a day (morning and night) for about a month now, and cuts the grass at the tallest setting on the mower to keep it longer, and our yard is night and day to the neighbors. We often get stopped by neighbors asking his secret.
He says the shorter you cut it, the quicker the sun burns it, so the trick is to keep it longer and mow more often. Maybe that would help?
FWIW, when lawn turns brown, it's usually not dead...it's dormant & will be green again when temperatures are to it's liking (there is warm & cool season grass).
All is not lost.
REALLY? Are you not just trying to make me feel better? Can I get it green again by watering it A LOT?
If it's a cool season grass, all the water in the world won't turn it lush in 95* temps. Do you know what was planted? Did it brown last summer? Is it brown in the winter?
You did mention the patches occurred after fertilization...it is possible to kill grass with too high a concentration of fertilizer.
I have no idea what it is - though since it was planted by our builder I would assume that it was the cheapest crap on the market
It browned a bit last summer - but nowhere near this early. I'm pretty sure that it was the fertilizer - everyone has weird brown patches in weird places, and nice green in other.
Darn it all. Thanks for the info!
I;ve been out watering our lawn daily (sometimes twice a day) for the past month and it's finally not brown. We also cut ours weekly but the setting isn't low - it's actually toward the higher setting.
The downfall to watering that much .... increased water bill