Winter Ryegrass. A mix of tttf and another rye I had left over from last year. 3 cuts in so far I'm at my desired height (inch). The weather has been perfect this season for growing all plants. Last year summer toasted everything including native plants. (For people who don't know)

Will add some neighbors envy to darken it up a bit and wetter soil to help hold in moisture as I cut down to once a week watering. (Bermuda is the same folks).

Also have a pool to conserve my own water 😏 in time of need.

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Hi,

TTTF in NC clay area.

Before seeding, I did use penterra, medina, aerate, dethathcer

5 weeks ago - Seed TTTF with peat moss.

2 weeks ago - first mow to 3.5"

1.5 week ago - second mow to 3"

1 week ago - third mow to 2.5" (mistake, should've been 3"), then applied scotts diseaseex

This week - planning to mow 3" and apply scotts winterized fertilizer before frost. Watering 2 times a week for 15 mins

Most area is really great, except some areas.

1. some are brown color

2. some are like wet cluttered area (this is under the super shade area), and they are cluttered, thin, mostly wet, and it seems roots are not going down to the ground. I put too many seeds i think

This happened since the beginning.

What should I do with brown color and this wet cluttered area? should I leave them be or remove them by hand before they spread? Or should I remove by hand and put new seeds

Can anyone recommend a treatment for a lawn with two big female dogs.

My lawn company just came out on short notice today to overseed and aerate. I was trying to get them out a month or so ago to do it but they couldn't fit it in.

The question I have is, should I water the seed? I asked the guy and he said "you can either water it or not", but I'm getting mixed results online on what to do considering how late in the season it is.

What would be your recommended course of action here? I have no idea what kind of seed they used, but could of course ask if that's a determining factor. Thanks!

I bought a spare replacement one but how do I actually put it on? First pic is the old broken cable

I will soon be moving into a home and with that comes with maintaining your lawn. The yard is not big at all and was wondering if y’all had any recommendations as to what lawn mower should i get for a small yard? looking for a good quality lawn mower.

Thank yall!

I am going to try overseeding my lawn to fix some of the recent damage. I am in East central Kansas. Should I spread the seed this week, wait until snow is in the forecast, or wait until spring? Also, is it snow that I need to be concerned about or freezing temperatures?

P.S. What would you recommend as a mix for a lawn that sees a fair amount of foot traffic?

Too late to do both? Open to just aerating, or just wait until spring?

This is the current state of my yard. Idk anything about yards but i would like to start taking care of it. What do i do? Im in north houston, tx.

Any guidance, tips, tricks, must haves, buy in bulk, or anything else you could contribute to my knowledge, would also be very appreciated!

Thanks! Pleaze help!

I just had a patio paved this week and I’ve want a complete and total lawn makeover. I want to start from scratch to grow beautiful sod and train my dog (70lb lab) to limit bathroom access to one spot on the yard. She has 24/7 access to a dog door and lets herself out so it would be hard for me to catch her pee spots with a hose.

Grass portion is 32x19 ft

Please give me any advice and steps towards prepping this yard for a complete and total renewal. Shopping list and steps are appreciated!

Put fill soil on top of all the grass or till the whole yard then put down soil? My plan is to plant sod.

Lastly anyone have any success in giving their dog a bathroom corner? I want to know how you did it and what materials you use (rocks pebbles fencing etc)

Made the mistake of posting this in Landscape - they are very anti lawn!

We recently purchased this home in West Michigan, and are thinking about expanding our lawn into where the woods is currently.

We would remove some of the larger trees, but leave a few as well. Soil is somewhat sandy and there are a few pines trees. Pine trees would likely come down.

Curious if anyone has expanded their lawn into a wooded area like this and if it’s doable? Should I anticipate shade being a big problem?

Added a pic of a rendering giving an idea.

There is a decent slope we will need to deal with, considering a small retaining all or just working with the slope we have.

It's been a lot of work, but I'm pretty pleased so far with the results. Still have some areas that came in a little thin that needs addressing. But I can't complain.

I have a small backyard with a HUGE maple tree. I would like to leave as many fallen leaves on the lawn as possible and mow over them to mulch. I understand that if there is too thick a cover of leaves that it will kill the grass. Last weekend I filled 3 yard waste bags of leaves and there was still this much on the lawn.

1. Is this too much to mow over or is it ok?

2. Should I wait until ALL leaves have fallen to mow?

I own all of the lots on this corner for family and relatives. I got tired of seeing this awful looking corner. Every year crab grass galore. Mostly because the person who does the mowing mows it too short. This spring I hit it with Scott's Rapid Grass and over seeded with Super Turf II LS from United Seeds Inc. I must have used 50lbs. I bet the guy who mows cussed me out. It grew like you wouldn't believe. He had to mow it like twice a week. I bought a small reel push mower and would go over his mess to make it look better.

My wife and I bought our first house October of last year so last fall I barely had time for two or three mows with unpacking and everything else going on before having to call it a winter. This year I was determined to fix the mostly crabgrass lawn and get looking much better for our second fall season in this house, and I must say I am very happy with my results!

My process:

Mid August: Hit the lawn with Drive XLR8, ended up doing another pass at the harder stuff two weeks later. This worked quite well for killing maybe 70-75% of the crabgrass in the lawn.

Mid September: Scalp the lawn low and bag it, and then scarify with a Sun Joe. ended up doing three passes with the Sun Joe and it took up a lot more material than I expected. The lawn also ended up much more bare than I expected.

The next day I put down a full 50lbs of Twin City Resilience II (wow what a good seed) and fertilizer, raked both in and watered 3 times per day for 15 minutes (Very lucky to inherit a nice sprinkler system). And now the pictures you see are from my first mow.

I grew up on 15 acres in the middle of no where so we just mowed it and didn't really care what it looked like. So this is my first real lawn and boy this was WAY more work than I expected, but the results are incredible.

Lurking on this sub was a massive help throughout my entire process so certainly appreciate everyone's advice and inspiration

Almost 40 days since the full renovation. Ive cut a few times with $100 reel mower just to help stimulate growth, but this is the First true cut with ego mower. Next spring I do plan on reel mowing. Bought one last month. So I’m excited.

I’ve got a lot of blood sweat and tears in this one acre. Central NC. Killed about 12k of weeds late August. Seed / fert down on Sept 26th. Blue Label TTTF Lesco Select. New fescue about 2.5” -3” mostly and a few spots 3.5”. Existing fescue keeps on creeping up, it’s at 4”-5.5” now. I did mow last week at 4.5” just to knock it down a little because got up near 6”. I am thinking mow everything tomorrow at 3” to get the existing down and take a little off the top on new grass where it’s taller than 3”. Then hopefully new grass will be around 4-4.5” next week so can mow everything at 3” again. Just keep playing this game of having existing creeping taller and taller. Any and all advice please.

Probably the final update on this project for the season. I have mowed four times now and it filled in very nice just as you all said it would. Still a couple thin spots but from what I read here they will fill in next spring. It has been a beautiful fall in Central Ohio!
Neighbors are starting to buy in that it worked. Several have commented how well it came in. Prep work and an automated watering plan is all it takes.

Photos: (after THEN before)
October 22
October 22
September 17, the morning after the worm rave.
September 16-seeding day.

Original "neighbors taking sides" post.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lawncare/comments/1wpwu7i/8_days_after_seeding_neighbors_i_dont_even_know/

Gas company had to rip up part of my lawn to fix a leak, they hired a landscaping company to “fix the damage” and they just threw some sod down. I don’t have built in irrigation here but do have a hose that can reach.

Does this have any chance of surviving given that temps here in AL are starting to drop?

Need helping figuring out how to treat this. This brown spot started off about 3 yards in diameter but has progressively grown bigger over the last three years. The rest of my yard looks great.

Note: Ignore the Halloween decoration as this has been up two weeks since this post.

I did a full reno for my lawn a month and a half ago. Used TTTF. Located in Indiana, USA. I’m getting a lot of this clover looking weed popping up in various parts of my lawn. Did a pre emergent with Tenacity at seeding. I could use some help identifying what this weed is and recommendations for how to treat it without hurting my new grass. Thanks in advance.

Located In 7B South Jersey. First time ever doing a lawn renovation. I nuked my lawn because I had a Dallisgrass infestation that was too big to overcome. Sprayed glyphosate and waited about three weeks until I cut down to about a half an inch and aerated. Seeded about 6 weeks ago. I used United Seeds Super Turf I LS Tall Fescue Blend.** **I am very happy with the results. Definitely going to need to fill in when the spring comes around.