New lawn not looking well - need help to rescue

momo2007

momo2007

momo2007

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Hi all,
Need some advice how we can hopefully save our new lawn that was laid by a company on a bed of top soil and fertilizer in end of September. As advised we watered it every day apart from when it rained for 4 weeks. Lawn looked great, grass grew a a lot. Then we mowed lawn perhaps too much.

Now, as pics show we have a lot of flat brown patches where turn edges are visible, which I think the grass is dead. The turf is still liftable and their is hardly any white roots to see.
Most of the brown patches were probably caused by me walking around (after 4 weeks of using wood planks to water lawn)which I don't know how you would avoid and also probably by all the leaves that fell and were not removed early enough.

Any suggestions on how to recover the lawn? Not sure why it still has not rooted? Should I start spreading lawn fertilizer now in coming January? Or seed all the brown flat patches?

Advice appreciated.
Mo

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That has a lot of dead patches in it did you leave it smothered in leaves for an extended period? Looks like you've raked it over after getting some time off work after neglecting it for a couple of months. If anything you've let it get too long the tall grass shades out the lower cutting it regularly will stop that and make it to thicken up as lower stalks will fill in the gaps where theres light reaching the ground. You can clear the leaves too with a rotary mower. Feed it when the weather warms up and oversow with seed to thicken it up its too early to do much with it now
 
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Yes, around the tree I left it for a while and that's where it has a lot of bare patches. I started raking it when it was still wet and damp which probably didn't help. I left it to grow as advised after leaving it for 4 weeks, then cut it twice
 
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