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I’m feeling rather chuffed around now. The grass has exploded. Checked it last night and the the difference was incredible from yesterday morning.

I spot treated some surviving buttercup with herbicide via a paint brush!! I can easily spot the remaining weedgrass. Will start to try and keep on top of that.

1 week on and the top layer of compost and and the remaining white dieing grass that I didn’t fully remove has a nice tint of green!!!

Close up photo!
 
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Sprayed the (copious) moss with iron sulphate yesterday. Action today already. Will rake / verticut it at the next opportunity.

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dlockers said:
What iron sulphate do you guys use? I have a tonne of moss.
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I bought a cheap £5 tub off Amazon years ago, worked like a charm. Have to admit, I let the moss grow where it wants these days, it’s good for nesting material for the birds and tends to die off in all but the most shady areas anyway. I also don’t have the energy to scarify and to then overseed (that the birds would no doubt eat). That said, I do kill off the weeds, but not with an all over feed and weed, I have so few weeds that I just spray the odd weed that appears.
 
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Bigpig said:
When should I be doing my first mow after resowing?
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  1. Grass Height: Wait until the new grass reaches approximately 8 to 10 centimeters in height. It ensures that the grass has developed a strong root system capable of withstanding the stress of mowing.
  2. Mower Settings: Adjust your mower to a higher setting to avoid cutting off too much of the new growth. Generally, remove only the top third of the grass blades to minimise stress.
 
@Bigpig - You should try and throw down some high Phosphorus fertiliser as this helps root development. Try and get some with a low Nitrogen content as this will just encourage leaf growth and, for brand new grass like this, its root development that is more important. You can always get leaf growth later, backed up by strong root development but doing it the other way around means you have loads of leaf with no strong base (roots) to develop

Something like a 9-9-9 (NPK) is fine (just make sure the "P" is at least the same, if not higher than the "N")

EDIT - Kinda like this - https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/phos-mag-8-19-10-5mg-fertiliser-20kg/ (8-19-10 NPK with added Magnesium)
 
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Richie said:
@Bigpig - You should try and throw down some high Phosphorus fertiliser as this helps root development. Try and get some with a low Nitrogen content as this will just encourage leaf growth and, for brand new grass like this, its root development that is more important. You can always get leaf growth later, backed up by strong root development but doing it the other way around means you have loads of leaf with no strong base (roots) to develop

Something like a 9-9-9 (NPK) is fine (just make sure the "P" is at least the same, if not higher than the "N")

EDIT - Kinda like this - https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/phos-mag-8-19-10-5mg-fertiliser-20kg/ (8-19-10 NPK with added Magnesium)
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Good advice. Did something similar when seeded last year and the roots this year are far more resilient. Got decent leaf growth this year. Cutting weekly has helped also. Shaving a bit off.
 
Cheers all.

Going to have to invest in a decent little spreader. The hand spreader I purchased is complete pitta.

Have a weed outbreak in one of the top corners. Buttercup etc over all filling out nicely and a wonderful dark green. The white areas is the remaining dead grass which are shrinking and I'm lifting lumps of it as we go along. Really want to start planting some Laurels around the boundary but I need my bank account to recover!! It's took one hell of a beaten over the past month or so!!

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Only our second year in a new house / garden we planted a couple of blueberry plants last year and one of them has suddenly looked like it’s dying at some branch ends.

Image below any ideas?

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Everything else about it looks fine, flowers and leaves look healthy.
 
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