I’m a first time home owner so I am not very well educated on lawn care and grass, hence here I am. I mowed the yard yesterday for the first time and was feeling high and mighty and then noticed all the brown in my grass. It seems far too easy to pull out of the ground and even the grass that looks green on top is totally yellow when I look at the root area. If I took a thatch rake to it I fear I would have nothing left. To compound the problem I also have sections where it doesn’t even look like true grass. The last two pictures show what I’m talking about. Is that poa trivialis? Do I need to rip all of that up out of the ground? I live in the pnw.
cphug184
The tops of the grass blades are torn/shredded. Sharpen your mower blade. Grass tops shredded like yours are prone to disease and it gives a gray-ish look to the yard once the damaged tips dry up.
The yellowing I don’t know. We overplant with rye in the winter and when the heat of summer comes, it dies out and can look like that. I can’t believe Mar 8 in the PNW is seeing rye dying off.
DV3279
Do you have a dog that pees there?
hookydoo
Do you have neighbors whos pets could be getting into your yard?
No-Impression-4508
Soil test, sharpen mower blades, do not cut more than 1/3rd of the grass blade, don’t cut when the lawn is soaking wet, check for grubs.
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I’m a first time home owner so I am not very well educated on lawn care and grass, hence here I am. I mowed the yard yesterday for the first time and was feeling high and mighty and then noticed all the brown in my grass. It seems far too easy to pull out of the ground and even the grass that looks green on top is totally yellow when I look at the root area. If I took a thatch rake to it I fear I would have nothing left. To compound the problem I also have sections where it doesn’t even look like true grass. The last two pictures show what I’m talking about. Is that poa trivialis? Do I need to rip all of that up out of the ground? I live in the pnw.
The tops of the grass blades are torn/shredded. Sharpen your mower blade. Grass tops shredded like yours are prone to disease and it gives a gray-ish look to the yard once the damaged tips dry up.
The yellowing I don’t know. We overplant with rye in the winter and when the heat of summer comes, it dies out and can look like that. I can’t believe Mar 8 in the PNW is seeing rye dying off.
Do you have a dog that pees there?
Do you have neighbors whos pets could be getting into your yard?
Soil test, sharpen mower blades, do not cut more than 1/3rd of the grass blade, don’t cut when the lawn is soaking wet, check for grubs.