We’ve had a couple of people contact us regarding a bit of patchiness in their new established lawns and it’s not exactly the hottest look in lawn trends right now! If your established lawn is also sporting bare spots, read on for what to do!

• First you might need to increase the water to let the bare areas fill in more.  The runners may be going semi-dormant due to dryness. Sometimes this may mean hand watering certain areas because you may not be getting even sprinkler coverage. You should keep the soil moist till you are 100% covered then slowly start decreasing the water. Adding steer manure or humus to the area will also help the soil to retain moisture.
• Second you can go ahead and mow to help simulate the runners and it would also be good to give them some fertilizer to get them growing more actively.

Those few things will get the grass to fill in and not look so patchy. We’ve notice that people sometimes start holding water back before the grass has had time to fill in. When they do that it stresses the runners before they have a chance to root in and establish themselves. You’ll usually see straw color grass blades on the bottom of the runners. Make these changes and it shouldn’t take more than a few weeks to for the bare patches to begin to fill in!