How Do You Repair A Bare Patch Of Lawn?
• Test to see if compaction is the problem. Stamp your foot hard onto the soil of the patch. If it feels hard on contact, you have a problem with compaction. This means that you will need to consider what is causing the compaction so that it does not reoccur after mending the bare patch. • Dig over the soil in the bare patch to loosen it. This is best done with a garden fork. • Take some runners from a healthy part of the lawn. Plant these into the dug-up soil of the bare patch. Another alternative is to simply seed this part of the lawn with the same lawn seed. Keep well watered in both instances. • Fence off the repaired patch. People and any heavy animals such as horses need to be kept off the repaired patch. Leave the roping off for a while to give the patch time to recover. Continue to keep it well watered but don’t fertilise it. Consider other options. Here are some thoughts on what to consider depending on the issue: • If the problem is high traffic, it is likely that the bare p
