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Lumpy Yard, Dead Square of No Grass; please help fix my lawn!

HU-595330740
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

Hi everyone,

This will be my first full spring/summer in my house. I've started to note that my backyard lawn is in pretty rough shape - 50% of it is grass and the other 50% is mainly mud/dead patches. Last fall, I was watering the lawn a lot but kept getting a lot of yellow patches of grass. Those yellow patches are now mud...

One issue that has been prevalent since I bought my house is that my lawn is very lumpy; earlier this year, when it was raining, the lawn almost felt like a marsh to walk on.

What should I do this year to fix my lawn? After reading various forums, I've come up with a laundry list of things to do. Can anyone let me know if I am missing something?

- Dethatch
- Cut the grass short
- Scarify
- Aerate
- for the muddy areas, apply triple mix soil to flatten and level the lawn
- overseed / over the mud spots, I will apply more seed and
- put triple mix soil on top of seed
- Rake and spread the soil around
- add water

Here are a few photos:





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