Im not having much luck with this.

I have a green grass ring in my lawn.

The lawn is going so-so this year, after spending last summer in the hospital my lawn really went down the toilet, and this year i have been working on getting it back up to par.

I have somewhat of an unusual thing happening though, There is a big green ring in my lawn, the ring is about 2ft wide, it is oblong, and roughly 12 feet in diameter.

The rest of my lawn in that area is looking crappy but it is growing. The ring though is thick, luch, and full of grass. the inside of the ring doesent look so hot either.

The sprinklers i use are the kind that sway back and forth and do large rectanges, i dont use any sprinklers that should cause this type of a ring.

Any idea what it is?

Ill try to get a pic tomorrow.

 

Reverse crop circles.......... I hate to tell you this Jack...... but you have aliens.

 

is there a low spot where this "ring" is? if there is, it just the water that has ran off into this spot and made this ring. we have a few of them only cause we didnt take care of our lawn when spring came around cause i usually do it but i was at school.

as for you, its a lil too late to get your grass healthy now. Next spring, lay some new seed down when the ground has little dew on in and make sure that it isnt going to rain for a few days after laying them down. Then after you see little bit of progress, put some lime down with the above conditions. then fertilizer and you should have a very green, healthy lawn.

 

thanks purestang, ill check to see if it dips down, but it seems pretty flat. ill check when i get home.

i actually started on my lawn several months ago. Aerated it, planted seed, fertilized it, etc. Colorado doesent get much rain, and when it gets dry and hot it is hard to keep the lawns going especially with the watering restrictions. I have managed allright but last year we spend most of our summer at the hospital the grass went to ****. I dont have a watering system.

My yard is fuggin huge, my house is on a 1/3 acre and i had a good 1,200-1500 sqft sectioned off into a big dog run by the side of the house. Now i have opened all that back up, and im working on getting grass to grow there as well. i sometimes with my yard wasnt so fuggin huge.

ill get some good photo's of it tomorrow and post them up.

 

Jack
I'm assuming u are on a sewer system and not a septic tank? If this is a new spot I would check where the water lines run to the house, you might have a leak in one of the lines. Also check you water bills to see if they have gone up. Getting a healthy lawn starts in the fall. Here in Tennessee around the end of Sept. we winterize the grass with weed and feed but it has to be done prior to the first hard frost. It helps keep the weeds from getting a foot hold in the spring. I deal with an acre and a third myself so I think your yard should be pretty easy to whip into shap but it will take time.

 

Not sure what kinda grass is good for colorado, but here in the southeast centipede is the lawn of choice. Not that tall fescue crap. That's what we call highway grass, and when it rains it will grow a foot in less than a week. I reseeded my front lawn with centipede seed. Kinda pricey but my yard is looking better since the drought last year. I had a bare spot where I drove and parked my stang for 3 years and the reseeding covered it nicely. What kind of grass you got Jack? BTW I'm being serious here, just in case someone wants to pun in..

 

post up some pictures so we can try to help you out.

When is the last time you just fertilized? do you have septic tanks in your yard?

 

probably the last time he stumbled home from the bar and couldn't make it in the house! ha ha

 

lol...

Ok, lets see.

No septic tank, i belong to civilization. HAHAHAHA

I dont think it is a leak, as you willl see in the pics it is a bgi oblong round ring, if it were a leak i would imagine it would be a large solid well growing blotch.

The grass i believe is Kentucky Bluegrass, that is what is sold the most at home depot, so i figure it is about the best to grow up here.

My lawn was almost dead by the end of last summer, i had more areas of straight up dirt than anything else. I fertilized around march and put out about 15lbs of new seed. We got tons of rain at first and that really helped, now im struggling to keep it going because we havent had more than a inch of rain in the past month. Most of the areas where it is brown is because it just gets BAKED. All my neighbords sit a little higher than me so almost the wind in the backyard is blocked out, and my yard stretches east to west and many areas never get shade.

Here is the ring im talking about. As crappy as the yard looks now, it is a vast improvement over last year.

Also, i have an sat photo that was taken last year probably around late july, in the yellow outline you can see how flippin huge my back yard is, and what a fucked up shape it is, and you can see that it was almost completely dead.

this time it is still more green than brown.

 

To me it looks like an enlarged version of when a dog does his buisness in the lawn my guess is that the fertilizer that went in that spot was to much or to concentrated it would explain why it gets greener a little further out becuase the concetration at those point were optimal.

 

A guy i work with just saw a pic and said he thinks it might be a fungus...???

 

I does appear to be a fungus at this point. what type of fertilizers do you use? I have my yard treated by a local company and they use nothing but lesco products that most golf courses use and it looks great!! I have bermuda as well.

Have you had your grass aerated this season? This makes a HUGE difference in the look and healthyness of your yard.

 

Ill have to check, im pretty sure it was Scotts spring fertilizer.

Aerated and water injected. lol. Did it myself. I got my front yard done by an aerating company, the rear yard i did manually. lol.

it was a pain in the *** but it really helped

i got a manual aerator that attaches to a hose and has 2 prongs, it shoots water out of the prings and injects water into the ground when you aerate. it was a pain in the ***, but that DEFAINTLY helped things out. took me 2 hours a day for 4 days to get the whole yard.

looks like this, but on the side it has a hose attachment and actually shoots water out the prongs.

 

a local landscape place like John Deer or something similar could probably tell you what to put on it to get rid of the fungus if that is what it is.