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What type of grass is this? It's destroyed my lawn!!

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  • 01-05-2021 6:17pm
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    pj12332
    Registered Users Posts: 320 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I moved into a new build last year. Garden was basically a dump site. Dug it up, put down a good few tonnes of topsoil and seeded it. It grew in beautifully. Everything was great last summer. I put down a standard autumn fertilizer and left it alone.

    Come march it started growing back but it's completely different type of grass. I always used evergreen number 2 lawn seed.

    The new grass is long thick stalks almost with red at the base. See photos attached. Looks crap. A tiny pull and whole thing comes out of the soil. It leaves a massive gap though if I pull it up.

    My back garden I reseded identically and used the same soil and seed. It's growing lovely again. I've no idea whats happened.

    Am I going to have to go around and pull all of these clumps up and reseed? I don't see another way.

    Any advise appreciated.


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