r/lawnsolutionsaus

Hi everyone, I just bought the house and had absolutely no idea about gardening/botanic before. By GPT and google search, I can barely confidently identify two lawn species on my backyard - Darwin hairy paspalum and broadleaf carpet grass. The rest of them still confuse me a lot because the AI outcomes usually give me a big question mark and there is not much online info about the lawn in NT…

Pic 1,2,3: GPT told me is crabgrass, can’t confirm as the internet pictures don’t look the same to me.

Pic 4,5,6: told by GPT is QLD blue couch? Again confused.

Pic 7,8,9,10: no idea…

I recently purchased this home and I’m ready to start my lawn, but I don’t know where to start!

As you can see from the photos, I actually really like the small patch of lawn next to the concrete. What kind of grass is this?

The whole rest of the yard is overran with weed. I’m at a loss as to where to start. Can anyone offer me some practical options to turn my lawn from weeds to a golf course (or grass. Grass will do too!).

Thanks everyone!
Located - Bendigo Victoria

I was hoping to get some advice on what I should do with this section of my lawn on my front verge? I brought it back from the dead without reseeding when I bought the house over the last year or so. However now it’s fully developed, I’ve got a mixture of kikuyu (most of the lawn) and also this finer grass in this section in the picture, which has browned off over winter. Any advice would be appreciated!

Looking for answers on what the first 2 pics are, it breaks up easily but keep seeing this 5 years now in different spots.

I have tried to get a nice thick green lawn and it just seems impossible as the other 2 pics show.

If it helps this is an area with a lot of shagbark hickory trees, very sandy soil, less than 100 yards from the Kankakee river, and do not get full sun, also when leaves fall it is pure hell to clean up.

I have tried Scott's a couple times and just recently cancelled tru green as after 5 applications those the results I've gotten, waste of money.

Not looking for a putting green but any help from experienced people here to help with the bare spots and green up would be greatly appreciated

Just after a generic lawn seed from Bunnings to throw down on this once I've finished prepping it. Any recommendations? Not expecting a perfect lawn, just something that will tie into the existing lawn and be nice and thick.

This is probly the 4th one of these I've done, sorry, but I have so many different types of grass. This one is in my front lawn. Im hoping its not a weed cause it is the dominant grass. Im just north of Brisbane.

Hey Guys! Just moved into a new place, just wondering what steps I should take as we move towards spring summer?

I moved in and the grass was nearly thigh height, mowed it back to uncover quite dead grass with lots of visibly runners. Thanks!

Tag him, or give us your best guess in the comments below… we’d like to send him some Fertiliser for his new Sir Walter DNA Certified lawn (assuming he got it all home)

Before this, my grass was really green, but my gardener says that there are weeds in the grass now which is why he is spraying weed killer all over.
Three weeks ago, he said after two weeks it should be back to green and normal. Well, it’s been three and it’s still like this…
Any input? TIA!!

Hi all.

Just moved into a rental and about 1/2 the lawn is this grass. The other half looks like buffalo.

Can you please id and advise how best to control or remove.

I'm in NSW

Many thanks

In March/April this year I determined I had Army worm. I followed it with a treatment of Acelepryn across the entire 220/230m/sq.

It’s been 10-12 weeks since treatment and although I can see fresh shoots the browning is beginning to really bother me.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The final 4 photos are of the initial 1-2 months post turf lay which was early December

Based Nthn NSW.

I’ve heard Army Worm can come with Turf. Looking back, it looks as though the grass was damaged upon arrival, not a solid green, patches visible.

I’ve considered running a light thatch to open up the soil, after which I’d fertilise and reseed the whole yard.

as you can see it’s not in the best shape but i would love to have it nice again. its patchy and seems to have weeds growing throughout. after some advice on what i could do. photos are different sections of backyard

This is my neighbours lawn, kinda jealous tbh lol I want mine looking like that. How can I get my Kikuyu looking like this?

Hello Reddit!

I live in Houston Texas and just got into lawn care. I have st Augustine lawn.

I noticed that some grass looked like there could be some fungus growing so I put down disease Ex.

Now I have this color and am wondering where to go from here.

Any advice welcomed!

Appreciate some advice to ease my stress. My Sir Walter Buffalo was laid in March (Perth, WA) and isn't looking too crash hot. Do I just need to wait till spring or is there something I should be doing now?

Located in Melbourne.

This is for our nature strip. I understand that I should be waiting until spring before I do anything, however I am unsure what I exactly I should be doing. The last image shows the seed we used, which is apparently winter friendly and so maybe I could start earlier (?).

The greener section (last few images) have some patches that are devoid of any growth, and I am interested to know what I should be doing to remedy those spots.

All I have done in the past few weeks is aerate with a pitchfork tool and apply soil wetter, which has made it more green.