Keeping Your Lawn Looking its Best

 A good, well-maintained lawn is the first thing people see and one of the most enjoyable features of your home in the summer. Let us help you keep your lawn looking its best all year round. Regularly mowing your lawn will help promote lush, green growth. Weed regularly and seed bare patches to get them growing again. Water your lawn in dry summers to stop it from going brown. Aerate trampled areas to help bring them back to life, and rake out dead growth in autumn to maintain a lush, carpet of grass

Cut your lawn at least weekly in summer and once every two weeks during spring, autumn and warm winters. Regular mowing encourages the roots to spread, which will help to fill less dense spots and block out weeds.

Water your lawn 

Be sure to water young lawns thoroughly. Where possible, using rainwater from a water collection system can help reduce water usage. Sprinklers are perfect for keeping lawns hydrated but they use a lot of water.

Ground plantains and dandelions have wide, flat leaves that can smother large areas of lawn, they are easy to remove using a trowel. Make sure to get all of the roots to prevent them from growing back. Buttercups and clover can also spread quickly across your lawn, so raking before you mow can help to lift them up into the mower blades, weakening and killing them off over time.

Compacted grass doesn’t grow very well, which leads to bare spots. This can be foxed by aerating the soil by pushing a garden fork about 4 inches deep into the soil every 4 inches and gently rocking back and forth on the fork handle. The prongs open up the soil, allowing the roots to breathe and encouraging the grass to regrow.

Use a pair of long-handled shears to define the edge of your lawn, and stop the grass growing into borders. It instantly neatens your gardens and pathways, creating a very tidy finish. Where the lawn has grown into the border, use a spade or half-moon edger to reshape it and create a shallow ‘moat’ or install permanent edging that the grass can’t cross.

Unsightly bare patches are easy to fill. When you reshape your lawn collect any strips and place them in a compost filled seed tray then grow them on outside or in a cold frame. To replace the bare patch use one of your previously saved patches. Gently lay the turf, and cut to fit the patch. Firm it down so that there are no gaps and your new turf is no higher or lower than your existing lawn.