Is anyone able to identify this lawn and provide some input as to why it looks so shit. It has always looked like this, and looks basically dead during winter. It is currently summer (located in Aus).
All you have to do is touch it and it falls out. It makes our entire back yard a mess and sticks all over the dog.
by liveLuke11
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It needs to be dethatched
There are a few possibilities I can think of, but I’ll say what I believe it is. In the US that brown stuff is what most people call “thatch”. It’s old clippings and stuff that has died off naturally. It’s good to rake it out maybe once a year. I believe that’s what you’re referring to at least.
Looks like bent grass, a common weed that looks like grass. It actually works great for greens, on golf courses.
It rips out in chunks, and grows sideways over the soil, so it’s very easy to rip out chunks.
Walk up and down poking your lawn with a fork half in and mow on a higher setting then i would say a thin topdress of topsoil just before winter and rain and rake it out as it starts growing in early spring
Not an issue. Idk the correct term, most people will call it thatch, this is more like clippings and old stems, leaves, etc. true thatch is in the soil. It’s all just organic material though.
I know that’s not bermuda grass, but as a bermuda grass owner I have to cut as close to the soil as possible as only the top like 30-40% of my grass will be green the remainder below will be that brown. So I cut lower to remove some of the brown portions and gives more room for the green shoots to come out.
Perhaps your grass is similar to bermuda in that instance.