Top Tips for your lawn
1. Mow Often
Your grass should be growing strongly now so the need for regular mowing (around once a week) is great for encouraging growth. By mowing regularly you are encouraging strong growth and deterring weeds from growing. Clippings can be added to compost heaps but be careful not to add too much as it may slow down the rate of composting.
2. Cut Edges
To prevent grass from creeping into the flower borders or weeds growing and harming the lawn quality we suggest edging with a half-moon edging iron. We recommend the Kent & Stowe Carbon Steel Edging Iron (£22.99)available in our Garden Centres.
3. Feed Your Grass and Scarify
It is vital to do this in order to maintain a fresh and healthy lawn. We recommend;
- Miracle-Gro Complete 4in1 8m2 (£14.99) which feeds your lawn whilst also working to kill weeds and control moss, and provides a richer, greener lawn in 7 days. The formula helps to protect against heat, draught and other stresses. In 1 week the moss will blacken and can be easily raked out, and weeds will be killed within 3-5 weeks.
- Miracle-Gro Evergreen No Rake Moss Remover Lawn food (£18.99), which is not only a feed but a moss killer. It contains a bacteria which consumes the moss and doesn’t turn it black, so you will not need to rake it out. It also contains a slow release lawn fertiliser that feeds your lawn for up to 3 months and helps prevent moss from redeveloping.
4. Watering
All lawns benefit from watering if the weather isn’t providing it. Watering every 7- 10 days helps encourage growth, especially for new lawns. Just make sure not to overwater and re-use water from the bath or from your waterbutt.
5. Repairing Bare Patches
In order to do this place the seed, add a top dressing and allow the seed to establish, we suggest Westland Lawn and Turf Dressing (£6.99).
6. Sowing New Grass
If you are sowing new grass now, try not to walk on, or mow it until it has reached 2-3 inches. You must ensure care is taken in feeding (see above) alongside reseeding bare patches and dealing with moss and weed invasion.
Spring is the best season to lay new turf and keep well-watered if a dry spell hits. We sell turf by the roll with each roll sized 1m². You may wish to call beforehand to check our stock levels.
7. Be Wary of Frost
Check the forecast and don’t be tempted to mow too early as the temperature has a huge effect on your grass. The grass becomes rigid once frozen and when walked on, the individual blade of grass ruptures, which damages the leaf cells and may have an impact on growth.
In order to prevent damage, keep the lawnmower blade high and the cut light and then gradually lower the blade as the weather becomes warmer.
Miracle- Gro Grass Seed Refill Station
In order to reduce waste and encourage growth we have installed a Miracle- Gro Grass Seed Refill Station in our Coolings The Gardener’s Garden Centre at Rushmore Hill. We are lucky enough to be one of two garden centres in the country to trial this. It is a great method of reducing waste for the environment and allows you to buy what you need!
There are 10 different hoppers with 6 varieties of seed to choose from all have to do is chose the seed you need, fill up a refillable bag, weigh and pay. Why not give it a try?
Here at Coolings we have an experienced team of professional gardeners that can help to keep your lawn healthy. The lawn care and turfing services cover:
– Lawn feeding
– Scarifying
– Aeration
– Weed spraying
– Lawn seeding (Including removal of old lawn)
– Unfortunately, we are not able to lay artificial lawns for you.
The cost of our lawn services varies depending on the size of the lawn. For more information, please contact our team.
📞- 01959 532269
✉️ – gardenservices@coolings.co.uk
(Include postcode area BR1, BR2, BR3, BR4, BR5, BR6, BR7, BR8, TN13, TN14, TN15 and TN16.)
