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Lawn issue, can you identify this problem?
Good evening, I wonder if you lawn experts can help me out here, Went to one of my jobs to mow the lawns and noticed it was patchy and looking a bit sorry for itself, two weeks ago there was no sign of this at all.
On closer inspection I could see what looked like little bits of red cotton, but it was actually like a waxy plasticy substance on some of the blades of grass in the patches.
I have never seen this before! the worst affected lawn was turf laid late last year and has been very healthy up to now, the problem exists to a lesser extent on the larger lawn which was laid about two months ago,
Any ideas please?
Sorry the pictures aren't very clear!!
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Knight on -
With all this damp weather at the moment we may see many more type of lawn problems, I have one currently under water ( good old Sussex clay). I have sprayed for Red Thread before. Can't remember what with, sure you can Google it.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Barnett on -
Jim.
I use the 'turf care' fertiliser from the www.grassseedStore.co.uk. The N,P,K is 16,4,12.
It doesn't contain any herbicides and can be applied without the usual 2-3 days pre / post mowing. It's not a high nitrogen fertiliser so doesn't have the high nitrogen instant greening vegetative growth effect some other applications have and is therefore beneficial to all round grass nutrition ie. root growth. It is usable throughout the growing season from march to November. Its also granular.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Barnett on
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Yep
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