Grass at home doesn’t do well, I don’t know whether it’s my inconsistent mowing, the shaded parts of the garden where the grass is, or that the soil is thick and full of heavy clay on a layer of building rubble. Possibly it’s also the slightly too agressive mowing I did last year in an attempt at making the grass more bushy and the lawn less patchy when mown.
Either way, it looks a right mess, there’s barely any grass. So I’m on a mission to fix it.
First I gave the remnants a mow, then pronged the ground to aerate it a bit and to break up the soil.
Then I sprinkled on some fertiliser, grass seed and in one area where nobody goes, a few boxes of cheap wild flower mix. There’s one corner of the garden where grass doesn’t do very well, so I’m going to try growing some wild flowers instead. There’s usually a lot of grass amongst those mixes so it should fill out.
The last step was to cover the whole thing in three bags of sand. This should keep the birds off, protect the seed while it germinates, and over time work its way into the soil helping to break it up.
Now I just need to leave it alone and hope the cats don’t want to investigate a new giant litter tray!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://plot88.uk/2024/03/23/trying-to-repair-my-lawn/