ᐅ Garden Photos Chat Corner

Annual grass. Poa annua. There are many grasses that look very similar.
You can either dig it out, spot-treat with glyphosate, or just live with it 😉
You could use a turf cutter to remove it and then get a few square meters of sod. Then cut out the patches from the new sod and insert them into the bare spots. It will look like new. This is also how it’s done on golf courses.

In the last few days, people have been commenting on our amazing lawn (what are you doing with it? It looks like it’s painted!). So maybe the "problem" only looks like that when you get close?

I’m now following the approach described above—forget the stupid lawn.

I want the sun to shine, I want to go outside without a thick cozy blanket, and then there will be gin (or something equivalent).

I JUST want summer now! Period.

If those weird grass things start growing and flowering again, I’ll take a photo...

rick2018 schrieb:

Sand helps with unevenness 😉
I have already used almost one ton on the garage. As soon as my Equda arrives, the big project will start in the rest of the garden with about 12 tons.

We have roll-out lawn and the ground has settled unevenly. Now it’s no longer properly level. Can I even it out with sand? But then I would have to reseed, right?

Mow the lawn short and apply sand (quartz sand, washed, kiln-dried, 0.2–0.8mm (0.008–0.03 inches)). But it must be washed sand.

Level it with a squeegee or, if not available, a rake. The lawn can grow through about 1–1.5cm (0.4–0.6 inches). If you apply more at once, you will need to reseed. After 4–6 weeks, the lawn will look great. The sand not only evens the surface but also improves water and nutrient supply.

This year it’s really tough here too, Poa annua, millet... only the worst stuff in the lawn.
Last week I aerated and took 4 bags to the green waste collection point. It’s really getting on my nerves that it looks so bad, so I reseeded right away.
I’d actually prefer to burn the entire area down and start completely over from scratch...

Well, supposedly you can tell from the vegetation whether there is too much or too little nitrogen.
I have a lot of dandelions and clover. So much for indicator plants. Now what?
Dandelions = too much nitrogen, clover = too little nitrogen.
Scarifying didn’t help.
Fertilizing the clover areas with nitrogen didn’t help (removing them by hand is not an option, then I might as well start over completely).
Dandelions are dug out and the holes filled with soil. It doesn’t look good either.
Reseeding doesn’t help; the birds just enjoy the seeds.