Hello everyone!
I'm new to the forums and in need of some help from this wonderful community! I live in Northern Virginia and my family and I bought our first home last summer. The grass in the front of the house was in pretty bad shape so in the fall we planted new seed, etc (we tilled up the dirt, added multiple bags of lawn soil, etc). The receipt seemed to work EXTREMELY well. towards the end of the fall, the grass out front looked amazing.
Spring came around and it looked even more 'fuller' and looked absolutely stunning. I felt like a proud father, even the neighbors were complementing me on how amazing it looked! We watered it periodically (once or twice a week or so). Then.........June rolled around..............and my wonderful grass became a nightmare......and I feel like all my hard work was for nothing. I'm afraid to be seen in public because I don't want my neighbors to ask me what happened (jk...kinda)!
Even watering the grass couldn't help the situation. Here are a few pictures. Is this brown spot? A fungus? Was all my hard work a big waste of time and I have to start over? I'm pretty clueless and eager to learn as much as I can from all the members of this forum.
I used Scott’s shade and sun seed mix along with some top soil and Scott’s lawn soil. I think this stuff is a blend of different stuff but mainly Kentucky blue grass (?). I, definitely, realize this is a pretty small region of grass; however, once I had success on this strip, I was planning on doing the rest of my lawn in the fall. This strip of grass did look pretty amazing at one point....hard to believe now. ha..
I'm new to the forums and in need of some help from this wonderful community! I live in Northern Virginia and my family and I bought our first home last summer. The grass in the front of the house was in pretty bad shape so in the fall we planted new seed, etc (we tilled up the dirt, added multiple bags of lawn soil, etc). The receipt seemed to work EXTREMELY well. towards the end of the fall, the grass out front looked amazing.
Spring came around and it looked even more 'fuller' and looked absolutely stunning. I felt like a proud father, even the neighbors were complementing me on how amazing it looked! We watered it periodically (once or twice a week or so). Then.........June rolled around..............and my wonderful grass became a nightmare......and I feel like all my hard work was for nothing. I'm afraid to be seen in public because I don't want my neighbors to ask me what happened (jk...kinda)!
Even watering the grass couldn't help the situation. Here are a few pictures. Is this brown spot? A fungus? Was all my hard work a big waste of time and I have to start over? I'm pretty clueless and eager to learn as much as I can from all the members of this forum.
I used Scott’s shade and sun seed mix along with some top soil and Scott’s lawn soil. I think this stuff is a blend of different stuff but mainly Kentucky blue grass (?). I, definitely, realize this is a pretty small region of grass; however, once I had success on this strip, I was planning on doing the rest of my lawn in the fall. This strip of grass did look pretty amazing at one point....hard to believe now. ha..