Frosted grazing ground

[MickyMook]

Hello folks, hoping that someone with more experience than me can guide me on this. All our grazing ground is blackened at the tips somewhat after several weeks of nightly frosts. The worst affected is a patchy poorly established reseed. I had intended to get this stitched but for various reasons I’m leaving it until the autumn. It was grazed up until about a week ago in preparation for stitching, but the guttlet hardly even scratched the hard ground - the grazing is not as tight as I would have liked. There is some length on it in places but limited bulk, and badly blackened tips. I have since applied fertiliser but was considering topping it to clear off the frost damaged tips. The ground is extremely hard and in a bit of a drought at the moment. Does anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Brisel]

Why top it to remove the black tips? It will recover and any topping will only stress the grass more.

 

[MickyMook]

Why top it to remove the black tips? It will recover and any topping will only stress the grass more.

That’s the benefit of experience.

 

[Brisel]

That’s the benefit of experience.

In your experience, removing the black tips helps? In my experience, the grass will recover or shed those tips itself.

 

[lloyd]

Hello folks, hoping that someone with more experience than me can guide me on this. All our grazing ground is blackened at the tips somewhat after several weeks of nightly frosts. The worst affected is a patchy poorly established reseed. I had intended to get this stitched but for various reasons I’m leaving it until the autumn. It was grazed up until about a week ago in preparation for stitching, but the guttlet hardly even scratched the hard ground - the grazing is not as tight as I would have liked. There is some length on it in places but limited bulk, and badly blackened tips. I have since applied fertiliser but was considering topping it to clear off the frost damaged tips. The ground is extremely hard and in a bit of a drought at the moment. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Yep sell up and move to a kinder area.

 

[MickyMook]

In your experience, removing the black tips helps? In my experience, the grass will recover or shed those tips itself.

It was a compliment, misunderstood it would seem.

 

[MickyMook]

Yep sell up and move to a kinder area.

It could happen Where we are is great on a wet year, crap on a dry year. Global warming wouldn’t need to get too carried away.