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Seed heads in new lawn

We're living in a new build house and turf was laid in the garden.

We noticed come Spring a lot of seed heads appeared in our grass and from what we could make out they would disappear about a month later from reading about them.

The problem is they haven't disappeared. We have mown the lawn on the highest setting a couple of times so we're unsure if that's made things worse or not.

I enclose a photo to show what we have and we would be grateful for any suggestions to get rid of them before we tackle the developer. Many thanks.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,989

    Grass flowers and seeds as do most plants - nothing that can be done about that.  The seed heads can be mown off. Grass needs mowing at least once a week at this time of year - I would lower the cutting blade a bit - not too low - medium will be fine. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Thanks DovefromAbove. Sorry apparently it's on a medium setting and it's already been mown a few times, at the moment once a week. The problem just seems to be getting worse and the neighbours lawn sown around the same time seems to be fine.

    So you reckon that we just need to wait a bit longer?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,989

    It's the time of year when grass flowers and seeds (think of hay meadows and hay-making time).

    Just keep mowing image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Thanks. We quite literally have the meadow whereas our neighbours have a lawn. image

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