inigomontoya
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thanks, I'll try give that a go. The main grass section that contains the patches is very dry. Soil is almost craking in parts?
Any advice for pretreatment of this before seeding/top dressing.
thanks again.
Sounds like the soil has become very compacted. Maybe drive your garden fork down into the patches a whole load of times, rocking it back and forth to loosen the compaction. Giving it a serious water before you do this might help too.
If it's really hard you might need to turn the soil over altogether, but one of those twisty garden claw jobs will do that ok. Then some topdressing, seed and topdress over the top again.
Good luck!