I’m in NJ. It was looking great for the last month or 2 but the mowers came last week and today and it looked like this after the cut each time. Even this morning it looked perfect. Did they scalp it or is there another issue going on?
I did put down Bioadvanced and Disease Ex fungus control a few weeks ago so I don’t know if that could be related but I don’t think that could be an issue.
Any advice would be appreciated!
by Neskwiik
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I can tell you one thing is they need to sharpen there mower blades.
My lawn will do that from time to time during the year. Looks great one month, then it will look like 50% of the grass blades are brown and dried out. It might just be a natural process the lawn goes through, or it could be water related, and not enough of it. I can’t say for sure, but one thing I noticed is your grass is seriously frayed. Whoever cuts the lawn, has a very dull mower blade. Those are not clean cuts at all. That could open up the lawn to problems for sure.
Sharpening the blade would be a good idea.
She’s still asleep, Hal.
This is fine. Will bounce back. Wait for a good rain.
This happened to me last spring. I sharpened my mower blades before cutting and this exact same thing happened. Couldnt understand why my grass was looking like I was cutting it with a piece of rebar. Come to find out…. When I put the blade back on I wasn’t paying attention and put it on upside down…. Thus leading to the frayed looking tips. Yeah whoever is cutting your lawn is using a dull blade. Or improperly installed blade
Possibly more aeration needed?
I’m no expert lol, but in my professional opinion I’d say you recently had a weed and feed treatment and it hit something that was in your yard a lot killing it and the existing turf grass is slightly burnt
They cut too much off. Tell them to follow the 1/3 rule. And gd, sharpen their blades once in a while. That is savage.
Edit: read the cool season guide in the side bar. Them maybe print it off and hand it to them. lol.
Need to replace or sharpen your mower blades.
I presume you have fertilized… have you put down any micro nutrients? You could get your soil tested to determine PH. Also seems like whomever cut it can sharpen their blade. What cultivar do you have, is it fescue? Have you vertical the lawn? How often do you water? It can be a lot of things…
Looks like a warm season grass coming out of winter dormancy to me? No idea where you live so I can’t really tell you much else.
Im having the same issue
Had similar issue last month. As one poster mentioned, the bioadvanced and diseasex likely killed something. Also, lots of chemicals at one time may impact the absorption of water/nutrients. I put down some root hume to rinse the roots and added fertilizer. Lawn is recovering much better now.
Lmao that’s the dullest mower blades I’ve ever seen
Your grass is getting shredded and not cut clean.
Your lawn appears to be small enough that you should be mowing it yourself if you truly care about a healthy lawn.
Landscape business owner here.
They need to sharpen their blades for one.
Two their trimming game is trash.
As for your grass it looks like zoysia that wasn’t scalped early in the season. So every time your cut the grass. It will be brown/green.
They can cut the grass taller so it dead brown grass from last season don’t show.
The rule of thumb is scalp your yard to half of the desired height. So if you plan to maintain at 2 inches. Scalp it to 1.
Good god man sharpen the blades, drag them across concrete or something, literally anything is a improvement
You forgot trees.
Mower blades to be sharpened, and too less water?
Looks like it was cut too short with dull blades or even a string trimmer.
It’s mad because you’re not growing cannabis