Lawn lateral growth problem

Hi - I have patches on my lawn where I have quite a lot of lateral growth and when I rake, it pulls up the grass and when I mow, I'm scalping the lawn and ends up with yellow patches.

The lawn is fed every 4-6 weeks & scarified once per year. It's cut with a Honda mower with a roller on the back, which probably doesn't help. The lawn is too big to rake each time before I mow it.

Does anybody else have a similar problem?

Thanks, Nick

 

sounds as if your blade is not high enough and you are scalping it , at this time of year you may need to cut once a week or at the most leave it two weeks .

Spruce

 

Thanks Spruce - it's not a cut height issue, it's more of an issue that the grass is growing laterally rather than straight up.

 

You're overfeeding, probably a predominantly Fescue lawn? Give the lawn a break from feeding for a minimum of 6 months and the individual plants should happily return to vertical grow as opposed to lateral.

 

Thanks Axl - I don't think it's overfeeding as it's done by Greenthumb. So every 6-8 weeks and by the time they come it's in need of a feed.