Soft Lawn

Ok before I start, dont shout at me :D

I have a lawn that is totally full of moss and I mean a lot of moss.

I was going to scarify it and re seed it, but it was so much hard work, I had already scarified half of the lawn and that took me a day and there was still lots of moss on the part I scarified.

So i decided to re-tuft the lawn, I put down some topsoil onto of the excisting lawn and layed the new turf ontop of it.

Lets forward 2 months on, The lawn and rooted great, its nice, lush and green, you wouldnt even know that I took a shortcut.

Just one problem, the bottom half of the lawn has got a nice and form base where i Scarified, but the top of the lawn where there is still a lot of moss is very very spongey,

Its been 3 months now and its still spongey, I thought the Moss would have died off by now, anybody got any tips on what to do.

It may not be the moss, I just think it could be as the bottom half of the lawn is firm.

Thanks
Chris

 

I am not the one to advise, as my lawn is more weeds than grass - but what the heck, if you cut it its all green <gg> However moss usually occurs on compacted and shady area. You can apply a moss killer but it won't sort the underlying problem. . If its shady consider whether you want a lawn in that area - it is just compaction juse of a fork to loosen, and then incorporate sand should resolve it - along with moss killer. But you will need to reseed. . .

 

"Its been 3 months now and its still spongey, I thought the Moss would have died off by now, anybody got any tips on what to do."

Doing it properly ie killing off the old lawn, rotavating and raking before turfing would have been a start.

Your going to need to take up an area of the soft section and do the above, at the same time adressing the reason for the moss this could be shade, builders rubble underneath or just a heavy clay layer hindering drainadge.

 

Sounds as if the turf is sitting on the layer of moss that you left in place. There was a discussion on one of the composting threads about moss taking a very long time to rot down - 2 years in the compost heap was suggested. The grass will struggle to put down roots through the mossy layer, so it will be vulnerable to any dry weather.