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I'm not sure about stadium grass, but this may help if it looks rubbish.
Here's my story, together with the tips I followed to get my lawn looking much better. I am a total amateur by the way and make no claims to any expert knowledge whatsoever.
OK, I bought a new build house a few years ago. After some months, I realised that the rear garden lawn left a LOT to be desired. It was patchy, lumpy, had terrible drainage problems and generally looked awful. There were loads of weeds, at least as much moss as grass and I was tempted to tear it all up and start again. The ground is basically all clay and needed a lot of work to improve it.
However, I can only speak for myself and my own experience, but I did the following and things are now far better.
1) Mow and rake the lawn before anything else to remove any thatching or general rubbish that has settled on the grass. You should expect to pick up about 2 sacks of junk from the average lawn. It's amazing how much junk there was on mine. Old weeds, old grass, moss and everything else you expect to fall on your lawn over a period of time. If you reveal major bare patches, you can always reseed these by loosening the soil, adding some good top soil and mixing in some grass seed. Water this lightly each day, without drowning the seeds and cover thinly with the topsoil to stop the birds getting to it. They will always eat a few, but you can always top up if they peck at too many. Grass should appear in tiny shoots within a couple of weeks. It'll get much thicker and stronger over time, but patience is the key word here.
2) MAJORLY IMPORTANT TIP: You must create drainage to the whole lawn, especially if it's on clay and water is sitting on top of it. My lawn felt like a bowl of custard when I walked on it before. To improve this, I poked a garden fork deep into the ground at regularly spaced points and added Wickes sharp sand into the holes to keep them from filling up with earth. This was a great tip that I read about online. It wasn't hard to do, but a few blisters later, it has definitely made a big difference. I used four bags of sand, which only cost about £6 or so. WELL worth the effort, as it has drastically improved the drainage and the grass has returned where it was dead or waterlogged. It also got rid of the majority of the moss, which thrives in damp conditions of course.
3) After these jobs, when I mowed my lawn, I tried at various times not raking / raking and experimenting with how this affected things. I read one article that said do not rake clippings and others that said you should do so. Personally, I have settled on raking, as I found that it made the lawn look better overall. I compare it to combing your hair each morning, as this will obviously make the lawn appear more tidy and manicured. I can see the benefits of leaving clippings on the lawn, as it is supposed to provide nutrients, but overall I found that it just caused too much thatching and looked very untidy in the longer term. To rake has proven much better in my case.
4) Keep mowing the lawn each week! Sounds too simplistic, but regular mowing made a huge difference. You have to teach your stubborn lawn how you want it to look, so keep making it look that way and it will start to do what it's told. BUT, be careful, as I was mowing my lawn far too short every time for a long time and I found that this did NOT help at all. Put your mower on a medium setting, not the shortest setting. The shortest setting was just too much and it was hacking the lawn to pieces in places. Mow more often and less severely is my advice.
5) Feed the lawn a good feed with moss killer. I just bought one off the shelf, trying not to get too involved in the ins and outs of the chemistry. It was a decent brand and more or less did what it said on the tin. This is a good way to improve the colour and texture. It's not a cure-all, but it's one extra thing to help things along a little.
Overall, the main thing you need is to wait and have patience to get your lawn right. I found that the things I did made a bigger difference in the second summer, not so much the first time I carried them out. They did improve the lawn fairly quickly and definitely made an impact within a couple of weeks, but it was the second summer that the benefits really were much more noticeable.
After following these tips, I have seen a big improvement and am quite pleased overall. trust me, my lawn was AWFUL before. Now, I feel that, whilst it's not yet a Bowling green, it is far more respectable and actually looks something like what a lawn should look like at least. I can now enjoy the garden, rather than looking at the sorry excuse for a lawn that was there before.
I hope this helps anyone reading this and good luck!
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