u/shorty1988m

Ok, so coming up on 3 weeks ago I scalped my lawn (laid last year as turf rolls), scarified, sprayed with seaweed extract, levelled with top soil, overseeded and covered with compost. The seeding being mostly ryegrass.

Unfortunately, the last 2 weeks weren’t as ideal as I hoped with regards to weather so temps have been a bit lower than I expected and results not as good as I expected. I have many bare patches where I did some weed pulling prior to the tasks above.

I could stay the course and hope the germination starts in the next week and I can see evidence or I could take some preemptive action

I have a moisture sensor in the lawn linked to sprinklers so it’s stayed moist and not allowed to dry out.

Unfortunately, I work at sea and in about 10 days I will be away for 5 weeks so I’m stuck at what I should do. Any advice?

Option A - I cut the lawn again to stop it becoming unmanageable while I’m away and re seed the bare patches with some seed and top soil (weather looking better once I go away). Then just let it sit in the sun and be watered for the next 5 weeks and hope for the best

Option B - I leave it and hope for the best. I come back to a lawn that’s had 8 weeks of growth un cut and then spend the next 5 weeks slowly bringing the height down.

I plan on buying a robot mower next time I’m home to keep a better manage on cutting the lawn as 5 weeks is seemingly too long to leave it