I have a vacant house next to me, where the city cut down a large maple tree. It took up the whole square. About two years went by and no grass, the city seed never took and I just got sick of the weed and mud pit. Next to my front grass.
This year I put down compost and top soil and laid down some scott sun and shade seed. I have put starter fertilizer down twice. While I got some uniform solid growth early, all the grass their remained miniature. It also seemed an odd color green and never seems to get any longer after 8 weeks. It gets a lot of sun and not much deep watering, I kept the seeds moist 2-3 times a day. But gave up on the seeds last week.
I pulled out crab grass in the spring but didn't realize the seeds were already in the ground, they started coming up two weeks ago, I gave it a dose of Quinclorac (Image) as suggested and it seems to have taken care of the young ones. Ill follow up if needed, but may have done some damage to the young grass, again my only plan was no mud or weeds.
No soil test, this doesn't seem worth it, but just curious might be happening to cause it to grow so slow and stunted...
