novice gardener needs help...

hi everyone, im new to gardening yes ive managed to get to the ripe old of age of mid 40's and only just taking an interest... bought a new house 6 months ago so the lawn is probably 10 months old.. i cut it every 2 weeks and its sunny aspect makes it great but its looking threadbare... should i feed it and if so any recommendations as to what is should buy. the front lawn is ornamental and back i use frequently ie hanging washing out, sunbathing, light socialising... no young kids so thats a blessing... any advice welcomed :-)

 

It's the perfect time of year to give your lawn a revamp.

If you look at Friday's Gardeners World Monty Don was doing his lawn so would be a good place to start

 

thanks for you reply.. wow you look like youve lots of knowledge. Do you know anything about trees. there were 3 large ones planted in our garden when we bought the house but one has gone brown ,,, but new green shoots coming at bottom but all existing branches brown a top deffo dead - any clues?

 

Could be an Elm, the Dutch Elm disease kills the tops off when they are about 10 to 15 feet high, but they grow back from root suckers.

Welcome to Gardeners Corner btw

 

If you could post pics of your trees I'm sure some here could hazard a guess as to what the problems might be

 

really that would be great. will need to wait until light tomorrow but will do then... thanks for your help :-)

 

Hi thanks... this seems like a good site. I have a pic on my pc at work which i just remembered so will post a pic of the tree tomorrow, its the actual tree which you will see is lovely and green but now 2 months on its really brown and dead... the only thing thats changed is that i notice a cat uses it as a bed now and then - not my cat btw I dont have any animals.

 

just remembered i have a pic of the actual tree i took a couple of months ago when it was alive but its definately all brown now and leaves crinkled like they are dead