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My buffalo lawn is not doing well. I’ve neglected it. Lots of bare and dry spots. Areas under shade is doing better. Wondering if it can be revived with lots of love and care or should I start again and returf my lawn? If I can revive it, please let me know what to do. There’s some weeds and there’s a patch of a different type of grass growing in some spots, one with a finer leaf. Thanks
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Hello @LinL
Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community. It's a pleasure to have you join us, and thank you for sharing your question about your lawn.
It seems that over 70% of your lawn has died off. It would take some time if you were to attempt a recovery step. There's no guarantee that all of the turf would come back. I recommend re-turfing so that you can start fresh.
Parts of your lawn area have no turf at all and you'll have to seed those areas in order for the turf to grow back. If you were to rely on the natural growth of the turf it will take a while before the entire area is covered again.
Here are some handy step-by-step guides:
Let me call on our experienced members @Adam_W and @Noelle for their recommendations.
If you have any other questions we can help with, please don't hesitate to post them.
Eric
My buffalo lawn is infested with two types of weeds. I’m not sure what they are. Is the thin tall one Wintergrass? What kind of weed killer would be suitable to kill these weeds? Should I use a weed and feed or a more specific kind of weed killer?
Thanks
Hello @LinL
Thanks for sharing your question about identifying the weeds in your buffalo lawn. I suggest using Yates 4L BuffaloPro Hose On Lawn Weed Kille. It's safe for buffalo and other common lawn types. This is a safer option if you’re unsure what lawn type you have. As for the weed with tall thin leaves, I suspect it might be onion weed.
If it is, I suggest manually trying to control it first. Cut it as low as possible to stop the plant from photosynthesizing, this will also have the effect of stopping the weed from creating more seeds and eventually dying.
Let me call on our experienced members @Noelle and @Adam_W for their recommendations on controlling the weeds in your garden.
Here is a handy step-by-step guide: How to weed your lawn.
If you need further assistance, please let us know.
Eric
Hi there can anyone tell me what is happening with my sir Walter lawn. This started to happen about a month after the big floods we had here in Brisbane back in February. My lawn has always look magnificent I spend a lot of time and $$ on it. But this issue just got worse and worse it looked like it had mould and now no matter what I do it won’t come back. Admittedly it is winter right now but I thought I would see some improvement.
Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community @niccim. It's brilliant to have you join us, and many thanks for your question about Buffalo lawn maintenance.
If it weren't for that distinctive striped effect, I'd say it could have something to do with the excess water or some fungal infection. However, I will have an educated guess and say this looks like a lawn mowed far too low and has been scalped, exposing the runners. The width of those strips seems incredibly close to that of a lawnmower. You can see on the perimeter and around the pole where the mower deck couldn't get close. I'm not sure why you have the striped effect; perhaps the wheels rode over that area with the passes, so they didn't get cropped as severely.
Did you happen to give this lawn a really short mow some time around when that rain was? Whatever the reason, I can't go past the fact that these strips are somehow related to the issue you're experiencing.
Let me call in one of our experts, @Adam_W, to see if he has any thoughts.
Mitchell
Interesting @niccim. Any ideas on what's caused the stripe effect? Something has caused the stripes to remain healthy and in between to be affected. A mower would be my first guess, but if we can work out how that has happened, I'm reasonably sure it will reveal the answer to your problem. What's going on under the soil? Do you have irrigation run across this area that alines with this striped damage? Does the soil undulate and the dead sections are lower than the rest and therefore sit in water trapped in the area?
Buffalo goes relatively dormant over Winter, so any re-growth or repair will take some time, typically occurring once it starts warming up.
Mitchell
