Thick stalks

Hi all,

My grass was recently reduced to a giant mud patch by the dogs.

2 months and a fence later it had bounced back, but not without issues.

One section of the lawn has come up perfect, thick dark green grass, which appears to be expanding.



However a lot of the grass contains long thick stems.



A lot of them are extra long , but are missed by the mower because they are flat to the ground as seen in the video below.



I use scissors when I'm out and about but there are to many. Will the lush grass in the first photo eventually take over?

Is cutting the thick stalks enough, do I need to get the roots out as well?

Many thanks in advance

 

Adam I sometimes have this when I haven't been able to cut my grass for several weeks if the weather has been damp and I think your long pieces of grass like mine are actually grass that has gone to seed especially if the plant has been stressed due to hot weather.Most utility lawns are made up of different species of grasses which make up the turves so that could be the reason why some of the blades go to seed before others as this time of the years their natural time of the year to set seed in the wild.

As most of us cut our lawns once or twice a week throughout the summer months then the grass never gets the chance to set seed(this is where grass seed comes from)as we keep the lawns nice and short.

If you left the whole lawn to its own devices after several weeks of the right conditions then the whole lawn would be a sea of seed heads.

Our allotment paths are made up of grass a bit like a lawn and if any of it goes to seed we usually find the small grass blades on the edges of our plot where the seed has fallen.

It would be just as easy to just set the mower blades a tiny bit lower to chop off the flower stems but make sure you don't go too low or else you will scalp the lawn and then you might start having problems with moss appearing....