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| Topic : We built into our home May 1, 1999 and the grass was laid. I don't know what kind except it was sod. It's not bluegrass. I think it's a mixture. It looked beautiful at first. We had a try spell here and it started to turn brown but the weather changed and we got rain. We put some winter fertilizer on it. We don't know what to do next. Someone said that sod had to be taken care of differently. They said we had to aerate it in the spring. It blades look thin right now. We bought a mulching mower. The neighbors didn't and their grass looks better. Is a mulcher okay? I don't want to do anything to loose it. |
Well, the basics are water, fertilizer, and time. Most sod lawns will come back strong after the winter. The first year it uses all it's energy setting roots and getting established. The second is mostly top-growth.
As for the mulcher, you may be smothering the lawn with the clippings. New sod lawns are already struggling and you may have stressed it more by covering it with all the clippings. Some mulchers are better than others at chopping up the clippings. If when you mow there is a visable trail of clippings, than you need to be bagging instead. A mulcher that's doing it's job properly will shred the grass so fine that it's hardly noticable without rubbing your hand over the surface.
Aerating shouldn't be necessary as the lawn was just put in less than a year ago and I would expect the soil was prepped well then. Maybe in another year or two. |
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