I am a first time home owner getting into lawn care for the first time. Is there a reason the grass along the walkway seems to be dying? There was a period of a few weeks between the seller living there and my move in so the lawn hasn’t been tended to lately. Home is in NJ, don’t know what kind of grass this is, unfortunately.
by Wetteraukreis
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Heat from the brick.
Beautiful stone walkway, previous owners spent decent money
I think with the border being black radiant heat can certainly be a contributing factor – but I would be more inclined to believe that it’s actually primarily the gravel base from the pavers that extends too far out to the sides. This can cause shallow roots to form where it can’t penetrate the gravel, so any form of heat or stress will cause it to die much more quickly (now exaggerated by black stone).
Also – it’s common with pavers vs. concrete for companies to use a mortar edging to keep the pavers in place. I often see this done WAY too high up, which would have the same effect as too much gravel (probably worse this way).
Guessing the sellers had the walkway pressure washed and they used bleach
Do you live in a northern climate? Could be from salt?
Likely there is concrete holding the pavers in place. Not much soil depth.
Take a screwdriver and push it into the soil beside the pavers. I bet you find crushed stone from the walkway almost below the surface.
Just an idea – change from a dark stone border to a light color border? All stone gets hot but black stone gets super hot.
I’d say take it out about 6 inches add some topsoil and plant some nice plants and flowers. Chances are like others have said you most likely have a rock bed protruding from the pavers the flowers and small plants would likely fair better then grass there
Best way to figure it out is to take a little garden trowel and dig in the dead grass area. If you immediately hit gravel under the surface, that’s your answer. If you get 5 inches down and it’s good soil, it’s the heat from the brick.
Dig it all out, set a good lawn soil base, then put sod overtop.
I think that’s from them salting the path, not from radiating heat.
Could be from herbicide spray to edge the grass.
the real crime is whoever used black sand in between the white pavers
It was sprayed with weed killer so they didn’t have to edge the grass or weed eat
I bet the owner previous owner killed it and used vinnegar because the weeds were out of control against the walk way.
Winter sidewalk salt.
This happens when I spray weed killer over my walkway. Even using cardboard to protect overspray. Didn’t matter.
Looks like someone sprayed it with weed killer so they wouldn’t need to trim.
Could be they sprayed some chemicals on the walkway before selling and it’s run over into the yard
Because they used a weed/grass killer to make the paver walkway look pretty. If it was heat, there wouldn’t be any grass. It wouldn’t grow.
Heat from the stones for sure
Looks like somebody used round up along the edges
Looks to me that your previous homeowner sprayed the walkways with Roundup or some type of broadleaf herbicide to kill the correct weeds coming up but sprayed too much.
Nah – ice melt or salt for the winters running off
Because the power washers used bleach that killed the grass.
Solar lights is easiest solution, should mask it a bit, otherwise u can remove that dry patch with the soil, looking at its state should be easy, fill the gap with nice white medium size pebbles, will accentuate the pathway
If it never comes back can do a thin border with landscaping. Tulip bulbs would be nice in the spring
Salt
Looks like someone sprayed a layer of roundup or weed killer. That’s what my grass or weeds look like when I spray weed killer at my cabin