Grass killed by mattress?
grassproblem
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I left an old mattress on the lawn. I didn't remove it for about a month, by which time the grass was brown with something resembling white shoots emerging from the ground. I'm not sure if it's dead or not.
Is there some way I can get it back to healthy green grass?
I attach a picture of whatever is growing in that patch. It's only in that patch, nowhere else on the lawn.
My knowledge of gardening is close to zero so please don't assume any knowledge on my part.
Many thanks to anybody who can help.
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may not be dead after a month, just resting. you've done the most important thing, air, light and water can now get to it. If it still looks rough after winter scatter some grass seed
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you. Patience needed.
Your grass has been starved of light and water so it couldn't photosynthesise (remember those school biology lessons where leaves turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into chlorophyll, sugars and oxygen
) ... now it has access to both there's a good chance it may recover ... keep children/pets/adults off it over winter or it'll just turn to mud, and cross your fingers.
|f it hasn't shown signs of recovery by April let us know and we'll give you instructions for preparing and re-seeding the patch.
The white straggly bits are likely to be germinated weed seeds trying to grow. Just pull them out.
Fingers crossed for you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Snap! Nut
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes, I do remember that. It wasn't painful then, but it is now.
I'll pull out the weeds as you say and wait a few months to see if it recovers.
Many thanks for your help.
great minds Dove
In the sticks near Peterborough