Lawn Care

The tools that you can purchase include lawn mowers, aetators, scarifiers, lawn food and seed, moss killers and much more and we cover all these below :

Looking after your Lawn - Gardens are incorrectly regarded as a low upkeep part of the garden they can be low upkeep but not if you need them to look good. If at all likely cut grass as fast as it is about half an in. ( 12 mm ) lengthier compared to the length you are targeting for. A fine quality lawn whose main purpose in life is to be admired instead of walked on can be trimmed to in ( twenty mm ) in Spring and Autumn and as short as in ( fifteen mm ) in Summer.

Employ a Spring / Summer lawn food. If you are removing the clippings from your lawn then it is especially necessary to feed across the growing season each 6 to 8 weeks. Autumn feed must be with a particular Autumn lawn food that is high in phosphates and potash and low in nitrogen to persuade robust root expansion instead of leaf expansion. Raking ( scarifying ) - It is vital to scarify the lawn.

This just means raking the grass actually energetically to lose all the dead matter that builds up.
Aeration - Grassed areas can become compressed, especially where there's heavy traffic to and from one part of the garden to another.

Compaction leads to poor drainage and this will inspire moss. Tiny areas can be aerated by inserting a garden fork into the lawn at regular intervals. However this will become uninteresting if you have a big area and a straightforward manual push aerator will significantly speed up the method. A well aerated lawn will permit water and nutrients to get down to the roots of the grass where they are needed. Once the moss has expired you'll need to rake the lawn to dump the dead moss and any other dead matter.

Lawn Restoration - If you have inherited a lawn in extraordinarily poor condition with enormous worn areas, infestation of evergreen weeds, and mostly the coarser long-stemmed wiry grasses then maybe the solution is to get rid of the top, cultivate the soil, prepare a new seed bed ( or base for turf ) and start anew. There are though few areas of grass that can't be rebuilt into a lush green area, be it for playing on, relaxing on, or as a backdrop to the plants in your borders.

Naturally if you have your heart set on a particularly lush green sward consisting only of the best blades you not only have to start from the start but you're looking forward to a thorough upkeep programme as explained above. For many of us a general purpose lawn with an fascinating carpet of grass that acts as a perfect foil for flowering plants and somewhere to chill and play is what we are after.