The Lawn Care Thread

[Crystallas]

Maybe the picture doesn't show the patches as much as you're seeing it. But going by that, and knowing it's still May after a number of frosts (going into a period where it's tricky doing certain things), it doesn't look bad at all. Lightly yellow(under-developed roots or lightly wormed) spots at worst. Accepting that curbside grass is a problem in general because of drainage and all the variables from vehicles(road salt, intermittent shade, fluids). A little maintenance is going to do a lot, and realistically wont be super-lawn. Unless you want to compete with the retired guys who have nothing better to do.

The way you initially described it, I thought it had fully dead(brown/bald) spots and maybe some invasive species. And yeah, thatching is a great idea, but this is not bad at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it fixed itself, as long as the rains are normalized and the grass is trimmed regularly.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Perhaps I'm just a bit harder on it than what I thought. I would like to be the envy on the neighborhood. :shrug:

 

[Crystallas]

1.) Get synthetic turf.
2.) Modify a vacuum cleaner to look like a lawnmower.
3.) Then watch those old guys (who are out with scissors and mist spray bottles every day) find new hobbies like beating their wives instead. aka: The JimJohnson method.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

I'm with Crys. Gus, your yard looks find lol. If I took a pic of some of my dead sod patches you would have a heart attack compared to what you're dealing with.

 

[Tater]

You're stressing over that? Meh. Build the topsoil, weed and seed. We've had 5 frosts this year in the area, so that is what 95% of 'good' lawns look like.

Unless you want that golf course look with an award winning lawn(from people who give out imaginary awards). Whatever you're doing, it's looking fine to me.

I think it looks fine too. I even clicked to enlarge the pic and didn't see any bare spots.