AboutLong Island Gardener Expertise How to grow the Perfect Lawn? If you live in the Northeast/Atlantic Coast, I have intelligent answers on grass selection, fertilizers, soil care, weed control, and lawnmowers. Although I have degrees in related fields, a person's real gardening skills are learned from trial and error. More important, I am strict about not using chemicals in the garden. Organic gardening is not just earth friendly and healthier for you, your children and your pets. It's less expensive and easier. You read that right. Less expensive and easier.
Experience Homeowner for 15 years, 30 years of gardening for personal pleasure, college credits in horticulture and botany, volunteer docent at the local botanical gardens, and a whole library of gardening and landscaping books at home some 100 years old.
Question theI recently placed new topsoil and rye grass seed on a new patch of lawn. I placed a small amount of fertilizer at the time and a Mon month later a combination weed/killer and fertilizer again due to multiple weed invasion My grass started to grow beautifully and lush. Now i am getting large patches of brown,dead grass. I have tried to thatch the old dead grass out and the brown seems to be spreading. I water the grass and have it cut 1/week. Please help
Answer Some mess you've got there to deal with, dear. Pity you did not contact me before you used the chemicals.
Please tell me what 'fertilizer' and 'combination weed/killer and fertilizer' you used. Also what do you mean by 'thatch the old dead grass out' -- you used a dethatcher or you removed this by hand?
Fret not. This is easy to fix but you have much to learn.
