improve my lawn

[cgilbert1101]

My lawn is really patchy, I have a very wet and shady woodland garden and the lawn is struggling to grow, its very mossy and muddy, is there a mix or autumn feed I can get. I have bought a shady mix of grass seed before but it always ends up the same very muddy and patchy and hopeless to cut.

[Nosha123]

If you want to solve it the PROPER way - it will take quite a bit of hard work.... I'm no expert.. but I think you will have to apply a moss killer.. which will turn all the moss brown... you then need to rake it all out - leaving big bare patchy bits.. then feed and seed the lawn thoroughly (though may not be right time of year now as grass is growing slowly now!).
You then need to attack the problem as to why the moss grew there.. poor drainage is a possiblilty.. so you need to air the lawn to improve drainage... you can fork it all over to allow air to get to the roots, and thus water to drain away...
Hope this helps... wont be an easy one I'm afraid!!

[shylock73]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Search/Sponsore d.asp?SearchText=Lawn+Care+Maintainance&search Type=web

Try this

[nonomaybe]

A basic rule I used to follow was that if the lawn was more than 50% affected by whatever maladies, consideration should be given to replacing the lawn.I feel that you may need to consider doing this, then you can sort out the causes of your bad lawn .A compromise would be to add loads of v.sharp sand, this in time will help improve your drainage and by so doing deter the moss from developing, with the applications of shade tolerant seed (from a seedsman) you should eventually have a lawn to be happy to roll around on!!