How tall is it? Have you mowed yet? When was seed down?

Mowing might suck it back up.

 

If its flopped over its fine fescue, or ridiculously long other grass. You can try to blow it up but its just going to continously flop over and its a bitch to mow because it lays flat and doesnt cut properly.

 

Some of my new KBG seedlings flopped over from the rain too. It should stand back up on its own. If not, you could vary lightly rake it a bit to help.

 

Gentle use of a leaf blower will help a lot. How tall is the grass? 2 inches? 3 inches? 5 inches?

What is the height at which you normally maintain the grass? How tall is the old grass at this point?

 

I have this same problem, I was waiting to mow as my mix had fine and tall fescues and kbg. It was pretty tall maybe 3.5 inches we got a heavy rain and it all layed over. ( not matted down tho) A blower does help, I did cut it yesterday but the push mower doesnt have enuf power to suck up the blades. I will try my rider this week..
I think if its matted down you have to try and rake it a little to get air flow or it will rot from lack of air and not drying out.

 

How tall is it? Have you mowed yet? When was seed down?

Mowing might suck it back up.

New grass is about 2.5 inches

I guess bag it?

 

If its flopped over its fine fescue, or ridiculously long other grass. You can try to blow it up but its just going to continously flop over and its a b---- to mow because it lays flat and doesnt cut properly.

The lawn company said it's tall turf type fescue but who knows...does fine fescue fall into that bucket?

 

I have this same problem, I was waiting to mow as my mix had fine and tall fescues and kbg. It was pretty tall maybe 3.5 inches we got a heavy rain and it all layed over. ( not matted down tho) A blower does help, I did cut it yesterday but the push mower doesnt have enuf power to suck up the blades. I will try my rider this week..
I think if its matted down you have to try and rake it a little to get air flow or it will rot from lack of air and not drying out.

K good point. I'll try and rake it up a little. Then maybe bag mow for the suction?

 

If its flopped over its fine fescue, or ridiculously long other grass. You can try to blow it up but its just going to continously flop over and its a b---- to mow because it lays flat and doesnt cut properly.

The lawn company said it's tall turf type fescue but who knows...does fine fescue fall into that bucket?

No TTTF is much better, although without seeing photos its hard to know. Fine fescue is easy to identify in pictures.

 

What kind of rake works best for lifting matted down grass? A plastic leaf rake? I'm thinking the metal rake might be too sharp.

I'll need to stand mine up once we get a break from all this rain...

 

Personally, I find a leaf blower works extremely well and is very gentle if one doesn't use more power than is needed. (Full power is NOT needed!)

 

Gentle use of a leaf blower will help a lot. How tall is the grass? 2 inches? 3 inches? 5 inches?

What is the height at which you normally maintain the grass? How tall is the old grass at this point?

I've done 4 inches all summer. Old grass is 6 inches now. New grass is about 2.5 inches I think.

Here is a pic of the type of grass

 

What kind of rake works best for lifting matted down grass? A plastic leaf rake? I'm thinking the metal rake might be too sharp.

I'll need to stand mine up once we get a break from all this rain...

I tried the plastic leaf rake: grass pulled up

I tried my hand: takes forever

I tried the blower: just blows it over the other way

😩

 

If its flopped over its fine fescue, or ridiculously long other grass. You can try to blow it up but its just going to continously flop over and its a b---- to mow because it lays flat and doesnt cut properly.

The lawn company said it's tall turf type fescue but who knows...does fine fescue fall into that bucket?

No TTTF is much better, although without seeing photos its hard to know. Fine fescue is easy to identify in pictures.

Can you tell type of fescue even when it's in the new phase? I posted the pics

 

What kind of rake works best for lifting matted down grass? A plastic leaf rake? I'm thinking the metal rake might be too sharp.

I'll need to stand mine up once we get a break from all this rain...

I tried the plastic leaf rake: grass pulled up

I tried my hand: takes forever

I tried the blower: just blows it over the other way

😩

It is still a little damp so maybe I'll try again when totally dry?

Also noticed that it's like all stuck together too

 

Maybe try and cut it short...the vacuum might just lift up the blades and cut them. I know it might not be the best option but what else you gonna do.

 

Looks like Fine fescue to me, not TTTF, probably Chewings. It was probably part of whatever mix they put down. You probably do have TTTF in there somewhere.

Im guessing your grass area's look like this(Fine Fescue)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YiSI_CN4Jfo/U_Hm864sZiI/AAAAAAAADz8/cjewIhyq8MQ/s1600/DSC_0117.JPG

Not this(Tall fescue)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48YZ0Eyy2vU/U_HnJscuIEI/AAAAAAAAD0E/aO-RiigLsA0/s1600/DSC_0118.JPG

 

Looks like Fine fescue to me, not TTTF, probably Chewings. It was probably part of whatever mix they put down. You probably do have TTTF in there somewhere.

Im guessing your grass area's look like this(Fine Fescue)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YiSI_CN4Jfo/U_Hm864sZiI/AAAAAAAADz8/cjewIhyq8MQ/s1600/DSC_0117.JPG

Not this(Tall fescue)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48YZ0Eyy2vU/U_HnJscuIEI/AAAAAAAAD0E/aO-RiigLsA0/s1600/DSC_0118.JPG

Nice side by side. Are these both from your yard?

 

Looks like Fine fescue to me, not TTTF, probably Chewings. It was probably part of whatever mix they put down. You probably do have TTTF in there somewhere.

Im guessing your grass area's look like this(Fine Fescue)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YiSI_CN4Jfo/U_Hm864sZiI/AAAAAAAADz8/cjewIhyq8MQ/s1600/DSC_0117.JPG

Not this(Tall fescue)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48YZ0Eyy2vU/U_HnJscuIEI/AAAAAAAAD0E/aO-RiigLsA0/s1600/DSC_0118.JPG

Nice side by side. Are these both from your yard?

No i just googled fine fescue and found a Purdue site with them
http://purdueturftips.blogspot.com/2014/08/fescue-you-mean-theres-more-than-one.html

I naplam'd my property to get rid of all fine fescue i cant stand the look of it.

 

Haha, same. Do grasses go in and out of style like anything else I wonder? I hate fine rescues as well, feels old fashioned. I feel like I used to see it at my grandparents .

 

@ken-n-nancy's leaf blower suggestion is a good one (@JDgreen18 also suggested this in another thread). What I've noticed is that blow dried grass will stand up on its own with time. Wet grass sticks to the ground. So even if your leaf blower is just blowing the grass over in a different direction you are also removing water droplets from the blades and breaking any existing mycelium webs.

The grass below was 100% matted down last week after a heavy downpour and I blew it dry to prevent fungal issues. The grass was resting on the ground, dry, when I was done.

We've had several days of rain since, with no further intervention on my part. The grass is mostly standing upright now.

@MichiganGreen I agree with you - I think fine fescue looks "old" when it's not 100% green (looks worn in summer) but during spring a healthy fine fescue lawn looks beautiful.

 

@Mozart that's filling in nicely

 

@Mozart that's filling in nicely

Thanks The weather hasn't been cooperating so I haven't had much time to work in the yard and update my lawn journal. Hoping for some drying off today so I can do a lunchtime mow before more rain tonight/tomorrow. Mowing wet grass is so messy.

 

@ken-n-nancy's leaf blower suggestion is a good one (@JDgreen18 also suggested this in another thread). What I've noticed is that blow dried grass will stand up on its own with time. Wet grass sticks to the ground. So even if your leaf blower is just blowing the grass over in a different direction you are also removing water droplets from the blades and breaking any existing mycelium webs.

The grass below was 100% matted down last week after a heavy downpour and I blew it dry to prevent fungal issues. The grass was resting on the ground, dry, when I was done.

We've had several days of rain since, with no further intervention on my part. The grass is mostly standing upright now.

@MichiganGreen I agree with you - I think fine fescue looks "old" when it's not 100% green (looks worn in summer) but during spring a healthy fine fescue lawn looks beautiful.

ahh, so true so true.

 

Personally, I find a leaf blower works extremely well and is very gentle if one doesn't use more power than is needed. (Full power is NOT needed!)

As an update:

Kind of bummed, I tried everything but just couldn't get the grass to stand back up or really dry out. The weather went from 60's and tons of rains to high humidity into the 90's x 2 days. The parts that were matted down from rain runoff on the barely slopes areas are also somewhat shaded.

I used the blower. I used my hands. I used the rake gently. I tried to bag mow and feel like it only made it worse. Meanwhile, other parts of the lawn were needing watered since the heat has been so high. So I hand watered the dry spots. Still there is no coming back for the matter down grass. Sticky green sludge like stuff with all the blades stuck together. I resorted to raking it up today after a second mow (let the old grass get to 6.5 inches then mowed to 4" then two days later took it to 3") and reseeding those areas again. My hopes are low at this point and I feel pretty defeated. Lawn went from looking great to right back to where I started.