I have just moved into a brand new build (UK based). When I got the keys, the grass was super long and green. My dad mowed it on a long setting so he didn’t scalp it, and after that I started to notice patches of brown. It was really long again a few weeks later, so I mowed it on the medium setting on my mower and it looks too short 🫤 immediately after mowing it, you could actually see the extent of the brown patches. How do I fix it? Is it fungal?
I have been watering it every so often at night as it is really hot here (30°c and very humid). I also had my mums dog for a week and she did pee on it, but not as widespread as the brown patches are. Do I need to reseed it? Fertiliser? Mow it on a longer setting next time? This is my first time moving out to live on my own at 18 years old and I never thought about this part! I’m hoping I can save it
Photos of my mums dog with her sock on it a few days ago and this morning after mowing it last night
by Faithlessness_Basic
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Looks like a scalp more than a disease. I would get it to a height, then worry about other parts. Frequent consistent mowing is the most overlooked but most important part of lawn care.
You cut too much at once and too short.
If you like it short then you have to train it from early in the season. Once you let it grow long and decide to mow it short, it’s always going to be yellow under.
Scalped it.
Cut it one or two notches below the height you really want it to be at and ignore the fact that it’s brown for a little while, then go up to your desired height and cut it every week at that new height. It’ll come up to the new height and look green
The lawn will recover. You can try bumping the mow hight up just a hair. The problem is it was let to get too long in the first place. General rule of thumb you should only cut 1/3 of the height of the grass at a time.all you’ve done is exposed the brown part on the bottom of the grass, new green grass will grow from the top. if you really want that grass to pop, you can try detaching and overseeing. however, that will not be an overnight fix. It will take time to recover, but nonetheless, it will recover.
Water early in the morning should help too. Hydrate that grass before the sun starts cooking it.
Just keep up mowing at your chossen height it should readjust itself in a mont, worst case It might take till next season as your crowns already moved up in a sense
To me it looks like once you took the dog off the lawn it went bad. I’d put the dog back.
My dog also has about $5,000 worth of toys and just only like socks
Don’t cut more than 1/3 of the blade off when mowing. Also, water in the morning. Night watering invites fungus.
Water more. Mine was like yours last week. I gave it a quick rake. Put wetting agent on, and watered a lot. Mostly green again now. I’m keeping it high too
You let it grow too long before cutting it
Is that a springer or a large cocker spaniel? Or neither maybe? Either way, good looking pup.
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Duchess says thank you all for the advice!
I raked mine, it looked similar to yours, of the dead grass then skipped a week of mowing watering daily after a fertilizer and reseed treatment
Saw the comments on too short…but probs more so just water. Go from ‘every so often’ to the correct amount for your area. It probs my needs more takes longer than you think.