Fresh restart from seed ?

Good evening.

After some advice on my lawn.

I have been in a new build for the past 2 years, and unfortunately seem to be battling a loosing battle getting my lawn to where it should be.

For starters its really patchy, no feed, seed , raking love and care seems to want to bring it back. At a guess i would imagine the current base is not providing drainage, nurtients and the good things to help a healthy lawn.

I also have been battling a mass of leather jackets, no amount of nematodes seems to rectify this.

So, im thinking of killing and the lawn off ( unsure whether their is a product that will kill the leather jackets also?) To allow me start from scratch.

The advice i am after would be how best to go about this, time of year, what can be added to help and anything to assist.

Apprecaite a responses.

Thanks

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Matthew.

We have quite a few members join with new build garden problems. Quite often builders don't bother providing a garden that's workable and will bury rubbish and rubble covered with a few inches of soil, turf or grass seed it and walk away. Unfortunately in most cases it's down to the new owner to sort the problems out.

I suggest you have a look at the threads in GC's Lawns forum, you will find them quite helpful and of course you are welcome to start a thread there or post on an existing one. I've attached the link below for you to click on.....

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