[Sideshoot]

Having recently scarified my front lawn (90% moss) to a near bare patch its been reseeded and now looks like a putting green at St Andrews, ive been approached to replicate my lawn further up our street.

Having had a look at the lawn its virtually all brown (about 95%). I was going to give it a good scarifying, go over it with my fork for drainange and reseed, however.....the owners have told me the houses on that side of the road were originally built on a lime pit and they have witnessed lime leeching though the lawn to the surface. Is too much lime detrimental to a good lawn, if so how do i proceed? Is there a treatment to neutralize the lime.
Also the front of their house is south facing and is in full sun all day (mine is north facing).

Looking forwards to yr thoughts.

[gillie]

What are the other lawns like on the south facing side? are these houses fairly new and did the builders pinch the topsoil?

I suspect the untreated lawn is brown because of the drought and will green up when we get some rain.

I don't think lime would leach up through the topsoil (if there is any) and anyway I don't think it will be a problem - chalk hills grow wonderful grasslands .  However you can neutralise lime somewhat by using Sequestrene, but you would have to keep on applying it.

Gillie