Where are you located? How is it watered? Fertilized? Looks like they mow pretty short too..........

About three miles from the Delaware shore. The lawn has not been cut yet for the season so that’s just grass that’s dying. They were supposed to apply fertilizer and a pre-emergent about a month ago and then there’s another application within the next few weeks. This is why it’s so frustrating, they are supposedly doing this but last year my lawn look like it had not been treated and now again this trade. irrigation has not been turned on yet so I’m going to go and soak my yard tomorrow morning and hopefully it’ll start to green up, if in fact, it’s been treated.

Interesting many of my neighbors Laura jars are lush green. We take pride in our yard and property but it has not looked good since we settled two years ago when the builder laid sod and the irrigation started.

And thank you for responding.

From the pictures it looks like the area is very sandy. What kind of soil is in your lot?

Have you had a soil test. Was it high in salt? How high are you above the high tide?

Don’t believe the lawn company does a soil test but I will check. The other properties in this area have beautiful lawns. Hard to believe my Yard has a sandy lot when other yards are green.

Is there anything keeping you from fertilizing? I realize you don't want to double-dose with chemical fertilizer, but you could use an organic fertilizer even on the same day they apply chemical fert. The two different types work differently, so there is no interference.

You might wander by (lurk) the green lawns to see what those people are doing. It could be they are on a different zoned watering program. Or it could be they have different topsoil/sand. And when they do water, about how long is the sprinkler on?

This is a second home so I am not here frequently winter through spring. We checked on the house and noticed how poorly the lawn looked I did a little telling and threw some tall fescue seed down and indicated to the Hué not to do a pre-emergent since that will not allow the seed to fertilize. I’m more concerned about this long is going to Green up because your primary residence the lawn is beautiful in April

Hit send to soon. Our visits here are very in frequent from winter through spring. If and when they do the treatment, I’m wondering if this brown Bronze grass is going to green up. It doesn’t appear to be dead just dormant. And we’re also getting wheat grass throughout the lawn. This company does a poor job and the hoa just switched to a new lawn company last year and they’re not any better. We may have to hire our own lawn care company

And, where is the second home?

EDIT: 2 days later...I'm an idiot. I reread the topic and see where the house is. Sorry for the intrusion.

We're in a drought in Maryland. Delaware probably is too. Watering might help some, but probably won't fix everything. My guess is the soil is bad for fescue. Since you live near the shore, you may be able to grow a warm season grass like Zenith Zoysia. it's readily available in the mid-atlantic. You can plant plugs in a fescue lawn and over time it will take over. it would take some work, time and/or cost, but in the end, I think it might be the best solution.

"We're in a drought in Maryland."

A very minor one, as is Delaware. Certainly nothing like the very consistent and persistant drought conditions that exist in the west.

Zoysia is only recommended for that area if a coastal property visited primarily in summer as it is very late to green up in spring and will go dormant with the first frost. 3-4 months of green only. That's a long time looking at a browned out lawn if visits are more frequent than just summer. It is also not the slightest bit shade tolerant and is considered very aggressive, even to the point of invasive.

Zenith Zoysia has some shade tolerance and from looking at the pictures, seems shade isn't an issue. It's very popular in Maryland, even in partially shady areas, and in the winter, you can always overseed with annual rye, but in my neighborhood, people don't seem to care what the lawns look like over the winter. Even fescue lawns aren't very green over the winter. The biggest supplier is in Maryland.

I'm just suggesting it as a possible solution. Let him look into it if he's interested. There's a lot of info on the internet.