New lawn

I laid a brand new lawn 3 weeks ago and all seems to be settling down nicely.

My current concern is that certain 'rectangles' of grass are growing much faster than the rest (around 25% of the lawn I would say). These, however, are not in 1 area and are randomly dotted around the garden.

As well as growing far quicker, these areas of turf are far far thicker, greener and are more matted than the rest of the lawn. I called the supplier to ask if 2 different grades of turf have been delivered as they advise that this has certainly not happened.

Is this a common issue?

It is still very early days for the new lawn so perhaps everything will bed down and the issue will gradually disappear? Perhaps I should chill out?

The lawn, on the whole, looks very nice but the rectangles in question do look far nicer (but are also far more delicate and seem less hardy when walked on etc).

Many thanks


Rob

 

Did you put some fertiliser down before you the turf? maybe that was not spread evenly (e.g. you went over some bits twice by accident). Or where some Peas or Beans grown there last year? They would leave behind an excess of Nitrogen which would boost anything growing there this year. Ditto if manure was applied recently.

 

Many thanks indeed!

The garden had been untouched for years and was thoroughly rotivated - I did not use fertilliser.

The 'extra growth' is strictly in connection with certain rectangles and does not over lap over any lines (i.e. particular rectangles are growing far faster than others which are directly adjacent - they are also far thicker and greener).

 

I think if it relates to individual pieces of turf (have I got that right?) then it is most likely that they came from different areas, and one was recently fertilized, and the other probably fertilized earlier (or hadn't yet been done!)

If that's the case it will even out in time. I suppose putting some fertilizer on the lot would green them all up, although I'm not sure what the advice is for using fertilizer on newly laid turf.

 

Very helpful Kristen - makes sense!

I will now do some research as to when I can first apply fertilliser and the like.

Rob