Hey everyone,
I am new to the forum, and honestly lawncare I'm general and could really use your help. I am a brand new first time homeowner and have just got my feet wet with my new hobby in taking care of my lawn.
As a background I bought the house last summer in Central Rhode Island. It was previously a foreclosure and had sat dormant for over 2 years so the lawn really took a hit. To be honest I think the bank or whomever they hired would just come every few months and scalp it as low as possible and leave. When I moved in the yard was in shambles and was mainly dead grass, dirt, and a lot of overgrown trees and shrubs.
Not really knowing better I hired a landscaping company to cut the grass weekly and try to bring lawn back to shape. Initially they said it was too hot to apply fertilizer, and even though ground was very compact the thought aeration or any conditioning tools would introduce more weeds. Fall came and they had similar excuse about the weather only this time being to cold already. Even after investing months with them, my lawn looked exactly the same.... They instead encouraged me to rehab and redo my whole lawn (for 20k)... No thanks! I was determined to preventing myself from being laughing stock of the neighborhood this year so I researched and watched YouTube all winter long, and decided with a lot of inspiration from here to tackle it directly on my own.
I started with conditioning my lawn for first time(aeration,powerrake), and some pre-emergent weed control, and later over seeding and it's first fertilizer treatment the grass had seen in probably over 5 years. The results were fantastic(compared to previous state). There was no more brown dead grass and for the first time ever my lawn was green and flourishing and growing crazy quickly. Mowing finally made stripes and I felt honestly fantastic.... and my passion(or obsession) began.
But honestly I don't know what to do or where to go from here. The lawn is green, but has what appears is many strains of different grass types and looks tie-died with a million shades of green and looks spotted. The pre-emergent has either worn of from initial app or was not strong enough and weeds/crabgrass is starting to squeak back in. And honestly I should have but even more than what was recomended for overseeing because I still have some patching and the lawn overall is very thin.
I am not really sure what to do next as summer has started picking up (mid 80s and higher next few months). I now want more than just green grass. I want thick lush grass and I want it to be uniform(not tie-died multicolor). Will liquid iron help darken it all and appear more uniform. Should I just overseed one grass type over and over and pray in a few years looks the same. Or do I do a total lawn rehab this fall and just live with the disappointment for the next few months?
I welcome anyone and everyone's expert advice, and thank you for welcoming me to the club.
I have attached for reference before I cut the grass today, so the multicolor effect is more noticeable. (So please ignore how messy it is or weeds in walkway
)
I am new to the forum, and honestly lawncare I'm general and could really use your help. I am a brand new first time homeowner and have just got my feet wet with my new hobby in taking care of my lawn.
As a background I bought the house last summer in Central Rhode Island. It was previously a foreclosure and had sat dormant for over 2 years so the lawn really took a hit. To be honest I think the bank or whomever they hired would just come every few months and scalp it as low as possible and leave. When I moved in the yard was in shambles and was mainly dead grass, dirt, and a lot of overgrown trees and shrubs.
Not really knowing better I hired a landscaping company to cut the grass weekly and try to bring lawn back to shape. Initially they said it was too hot to apply fertilizer, and even though ground was very compact the thought aeration or any conditioning tools would introduce more weeds. Fall came and they had similar excuse about the weather only this time being to cold already. Even after investing months with them, my lawn looked exactly the same.... They instead encouraged me to rehab and redo my whole lawn (for 20k)... No thanks! I was determined to preventing myself from being laughing stock of the neighborhood this year so I researched and watched YouTube all winter long, and decided with a lot of inspiration from here to tackle it directly on my own.
I started with conditioning my lawn for first time(aeration,powerrake), and some pre-emergent weed control, and later over seeding and it's first fertilizer treatment the grass had seen in probably over 5 years. The results were fantastic(compared to previous state). There was no more brown dead grass and for the first time ever my lawn was green and flourishing and growing crazy quickly. Mowing finally made stripes and I felt honestly fantastic.... and my passion(or obsession) began.
But honestly I don't know what to do or where to go from here. The lawn is green, but has what appears is many strains of different grass types and looks tie-died with a million shades of green and looks spotted. The pre-emergent has either worn of from initial app or was not strong enough and weeds/crabgrass is starting to squeak back in. And honestly I should have but even more than what was recomended for overseeing because I still have some patching and the lawn overall is very thin.
I am not really sure what to do next as summer has started picking up (mid 80s and higher next few months). I now want more than just green grass. I want thick lush grass and I want it to be uniform(not tie-died multicolor). Will liquid iron help darken it all and appear more uniform. Should I just overseed one grass type over and over and pray in a few years looks the same. Or do I do a total lawn rehab this fall and just live with the disappointment for the next few months?
I welcome anyone and everyone's expert advice, and thank you for welcoming me to the club.
I have attached for reference before I cut the grass today, so the multicolor effect is more noticeable. (So please ignore how messy it is or weeds in walkway
)
