Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

Annual grass. Poa Annua. There are just many grasses that look very similar. Either dig it out, paint it with glyphosate, or live with it ;) You can dig it out with a hole puncher like that and get a few square meters of sod. Then dig it out there as well and insert it into the gaps. It looks like new then. This is also how it is done on golf courses.

We have already been approached about our great lawn in the last few days (what are you doing with it, it looks like it was painted?). So the "problem" may only look like that if you get closer? I am now following the path described above, screw the stupid lawn. It should be sunny now, I want to go outside and not with a thick cozy blanket and then there will be gin (or something appropriate). I JUST WANT summer now! Period. If those weird grass things start growing and blooming again, I will take a photo...

Sand helps against unevenness ;)
I have already processed almost one ton on the garage. As soon as my Equda arrives, the big project in the rest of the garden with about 12 tons will start.

We have turf and the ground has settled unevenly. Now it is no longer properly even. Can I even it out with sand? But then I would have to reseed, right?

Mow the lawn short and sand it (quartz sand, washed, fire-dried, 0.2-0.8). But definitely washed. Level with a squeegee or if not available with a rake. The lawn can grow through 1-1.5 cm. If you do more at once, you have to reseed. After 4-6 weeks the lawn looks great. The sand not only evens out but also improves water and nutrient supply.

This year it is also cursed here, Poa Annua, millet... only the finest stuff in the lawn. Last week I aerated and brought 4 bags to the green waste site, it really gets on my nerves that it looks so bad, I also reseeded right away. I would most like to burn the area down and reset everything to zero again...

Well, supposedly you can tell from the vegetation whether there is too much or too little nitrogen. Dandelions and clover are thriving in my garden. So much for indicator plants. What now? Dandelions = too much nitrogen, clover = too little nitrogen. Scarifying did not help. Fertilizing the clover areas with nitrogen did not help (digging out is not an option, then I might as well redo everything). Dandelions are being dug out and the holes filled with soil. That doesn’t look nice either. Reseeding doesn’t help, the birds are happy about the food.