Brown lawn

Your grass will be tougher than you think. We live in the driest part of the country and our lawn is also brown with a few docks attempting to show themselves. It's happened before and in 1976 we didn't get any rain until September. The grass soon grew back.

Set the mower on a high point when you can eventually start cutting and do it little and often to give the grass a chance to recover.

In our garden you can't see where the lawn ends and the borders begin at the moment.

Bizarrely our lawn is green! I do not know how it is surviving this drought, but it looks fine!

Your lawn will recover once the rain comes without you doing anything. ( we have a turf company and would be zillionaires if established died )

* established turf

I have an add for miracle grow grass feed at the bottom of this thread amazes me how that haplens so quick.

Yes, fear not your lawn will recover

After I covered a patch of my lawn with astroturf for a whole summer, for a rabbit run for GCs' pets, it looked dead when I moved it but re-grew within weeks. Fortunately grass is extremely resilient. I never worry about mine and don't ever water it.

I have a grass ad at the bottom too! (Express grass 15% off! )

Even the moss in my lawn looks dead - the lawn is 'crunching' as I walk across it!

It will recover when it rains. We've been here before!

I think your grass will recover. Grass, in my experience, is resilient. In a worst case scenario, I suppose you'll have to buy some grass seed and re-plant but I would be amazed if it came to that. The grass grew back in 1976 when we had an extremely hot summer.

Mont Don says it's fine to leave it, and that it will recover as soon a sit rains.

I recently read an article about lawns and dry weather. It said that lawns are very hardy and in fact lawns that are watered a lot tend not to develop deep roots and are less robust. In dry weather the article said the roots of the grass will push further down into the ground and become stronger.

Alan Titchmarsh said the same -don't water lawn -grass will recover when it rains.

I can't quite get my head round the fact that this morning somebody decided it was a good idea to mow the brown scorched grass on the verges and in the local public fields.

I've just said to DH one pro of this prolonged dry spell is that we don't have to bemoan all the 'wee' patches from the dogs on the lawn.It's just like one huge wee patch !yes I'm sure it's very resilient and after some rain will recover.So limiting any watering to those newer plants that really need it.Another plus is no need mow.DH with his sore ankles is having a rest.Still beats fake grass any day for me.