Reviving grass in the garden?

I was out in the garden today and the grass lawn was looking tired and very ill. Yellow, bald and not looking very good. I spotted a bag of compost my wife had opened in the garden (she was using to feed the roses) and I just sprinkled a whole lot of it over the lawn.


It looks horrible now with a load of compost spread all over it but did I do the right thing? will this help it grow eventually or should I have just gone out and purchased some lawn feed from the garden centre?

Reviving grass in the garden?
lawn food and water is what you need you could also sprinkle some seed over all lawn and again if its yellow all its really lacking is water
Reply:The short answer is yes you should've just bought some lawn feed.





Lawns go ratty looking for a variety of reasons like inadequate watering, being cut too short in summer, lawn beetle etc. but the single biggest cause is probably being underfed. Most lawns can be brought up to scratch despite weeds growing and bare patches with adequate (generous even) feeding.





Compost has little nutrient, it's good for improving soil quality by holding water and nutrient. If your wife is a better gardener than you I suspect you'll get a rollicking for wasting it on your lawn :-)
Reply:use 16-6-8 lawn fertilizer in moderation . Also do you have a female dog? the urine from female dogs can make yellow spots on lawns. Also you may have grubs
Reply:Go out with a garden fork and make plenty of holes brush the compost down into them and then go and get a good weed and feed.
Reply:I suspect lawn feed would have been more beneficial! A spell of rain will most likely perk it up too!
Reply:I don't think the compost will do any good unless you spike the ground using a garden fork or buy the proper tool from the garden centre to aerate you lawn them brush the compost into the holes which will help drainage, but honestly I think giving it some lawn fertiliser as well as some good grass seed which won't do any harm better to over seed than under seed as it will help to keep the moss at bay, or just try giving it a jolly good soaking with the hose on sprinkler wait for a week and see what happens, if grass doesn't start show signs of growing buy some good grass seed, and lash it on evenly. there is a quick growing grass seed on the market but it's expensive, more than £7 from B%26amp;Q and it's not a very big bag. If you put on grass fertiliser be sparing don't over do it, and rake it into the grown and if there is no rain due give it a good soak with a sprinkler. I hope I have helped some so good luck. PS When your wife is using the compost I think she will just be using it as a mulch round her roses to keep the ground from drying not as food..

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