Hello Everyone and thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Well, I really don't know where to start. I live in Alabama and I have no idea what kinda grass I have. I bought my house brand new back in July of 04. I only lived in my house until Jan of 05. Then I moved south and left the house empty until I returned in Jan. 06. I went to the local home improvement guy and asked him what I should put on the lawn. He told me scotts was great because I didnt have to worry about burning the lawn nor watering it in since I was just coming up to cut and run. Well, I came home to cut it every two weeks and it really grew like crazy! Here are some pics of it back in 05.


Last year we had a horrible dry season. I watered it as best as possible until water restrictions made it almost impossible. This year, to hell with the water restrictions I would rather pay the fine then pay to re-sod my whole yard.

Here is what my yard currently looks like. I have no idea what is going. Am I just over reacting? Does this seem normal to you? Does grass usually get like this?



This is my lawn after two good days of rain. Is this old grass washing away or something? If so, is this bad? Or okay?


Here is some close ups of the spotty parts. In some places you can see the sod net thing and the ground. Grrr. This can't be right!




And what is this? Is this a weed? I know I got some weeds in my yard. Who doesn't? I use to be able to go out there and just pull them up but this here is new. I think?!?!


I want my old grass back! The stuff that felt nice and soft under your feet and that didnt feel like it was trying to try out acupuncture on me. As you can see in the pics I do have dogs but the dont venture out into the front yard unless they are with me. I do play fetch in the yard with them so it does have some action but not a whole lot. Same with the back.

Any advice you guys could offer up on what is going on would be great. Hopefully I am just over reacting. Thank you everyone who takes the time to read and respond.

Looks like brown patch disiese but its hard to really tell from the photos.

Heres a site that could probably answer your question

http://www.lawntimes.com

Mac

Do you mean ...

Maybe I should post my question over there? Cause I browsed around the site and I am not finding any answers to my questions or this brown patch disease thing.

I am going to do some info searching for the brown patch disease thing and hopefully more ppl will answer here as well.

Ill keep checking back. Thank you for a response either way.

Hi LydieCakes,

I see what Mac is pointing to with the brown patch (which is a lawn fungus that causes dry brown spots) but to me it looks more like parts of your lawn died, most likely during that dry spell last year, and that it’s just thin, scraggly, and struggling in general. There are two things main things I’d suggest you do. The first is overseeding, which is basically planting new grass over the top of your existing grass. It helps fill in bare areas and thickens up your lawn in general. To make your overseeding successful, rake the soil thoroughly so it’s nice and soft, then spread the seeds, rake about ¼ of soil back over them, apply a starter fertilizer and water generously like you would any new lawn (your goal with new seeds is to keep the ground moist at all times – if they dry out the seeds will die). You should see some great new growth and in six weeks or so you’ll have a lawn a lot more like the one you remember! My other main suggestion is fertilizing. The starter fertilizer to go along with the new seeds is the most important, but after that, feed your lawn every six weeks to two months and I think you’ll find it does much much better.

Hope that helps some!
Dawn

I agree .. looks like you have just lost some grass... I had the same problem in Georgia... The ground was hard clay.. The heat and fescue, mixed with the dry conditions just didn't work out....

Would be best if you fix your patched areas by tilling some manuer or water holding type soil in the ground.. the putting your seed down.... I had to do that.. then i mixed some multch in with it...
i have moved to empire zosyia, so i tilled my stuff down to just about a foot... you really don't need to go that far, but i did...

Take care of that soil not matter what you do ..... if that isn't mixed well.. you will always have issues.

forgot to add.. yes that is grass left from your cutting and not bagging...
I wouldn't worry about that stuff to much... if it is thick you may want to dethatch... sorry for my horrid spelling..