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About Jonathan Radford
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Hi, I am an ecological landscape designer and I have lived in Italy for nearly 15 years. I specialise in the design of ecological Italian gardens but also in the reduction of water, maintenance and damage to the environment. I can answer questions on almost all gardening queries.
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I have been gardener for over twenty years and my experience ranges from tree-surgery, pond and lake construction to general horticulture and Italian landscape design. I have also written a book named "A Green Existence"
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I have an N.C in Horticulture and garden design and a City and Guilds in Commercial horticulture, both earnt in the U.K. I run my own business "ecologica gardens" in Italy and operate across the world performing ecological garden designs.
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See my website www.ecologicagardens.com
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You are here: Experts > Home/Garden > Exterior Decorating > Landscaping & Design > Can you help me whit my lawn?
Expert: Jonathan Radford
Date: 7/4/2008
Subject: Can you help me whit my lawn?
Question
Ciao,
Parli Italiano?
I donot know if you can help whit a problem whit my lown.
We're in Maryland and have about 3/4 acre lawn; last year we hired a lawn care company to help. The soil is not real good -- new construction (3 years ago) and builder carted away most of the top soil, we aerated and overseeded last fall (Tall Fescue). All was going well until this Spring we noticed areas in the lawn changing color -- we were told it was red thread fungus, and the lawn folks treated with fertilizer then a fungicide about a week later. We saw no improvement and now there are brown patches covering about 2/3 of the lawn -- the majority being in areas that get sun most of the day.
We water every 3-4 days for about an hour first thing in the morning.
About 2 weeks after the lawn service put down their treatment we spread out a granular fungicide that listed red thread as one of the fungus it treated; again no change.
Is there anything we can do to help the lawn now?
We can't tell if grass is actually dead, dying, or maybe dormant; will it come back next spring or do we need to seed again?
Lawn service fertilized about four times during the year, with some applications of weed control and insecticide.
Please help!
Thanks,
Mirella
Answer
Ciao Mirella... si, parlo anche l'Italiano
Vediamo cosa possiamo fare...
I think what you need to do is concentrate on improving the health of the plant itself, by applying some good NPK fertiliser until the fall.
Then take care not to water too much and make sure that you water ONLY AT NIGHT... NEVER during the day!!
In the fall apply what is known as a 'Top-dressing' which is simply a mix of soil, sand and peat that will create an area of good fresh soil that will permit the grass roots to find all they need in the top layer. Apply this at about half an inch over the whole area, rake in and spread evenly!
Go for another ant-fungal treatment but not more than one - it'll waste your cash... try to sort the problem out from the 'grass roots' up.
Contact me again, by all means...
Good luck
Jonathan www.ecologicagardens.com
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