If you find that your lawn looks a little drab or that the grass isn’t in as healthy a condition as it once was, then you should be able to restore it to its former glory. All lawns need a little love and attention if they are to continue to thrive.
Allowing part of your garden to look unkempt and wilder will be useful if you want to attract wildlife. However, formal garden layouts still usually have neatly lawned areas as their centrepiece. Here’s what you should be doing when caring for a lawn.
1. Continue to overseed
One of the simplest lawn care tips to follow is simply to overseed your lawn in the Spring and early Summer. Use a spreader to help you distribute your grass seeds so that you get an even spread. Overseeding helps to rejuvenate lawns and give them a more even appearance.
If part of your garden is shaded, then your grass maintenance regime should include regular treatments with a shade-loving seed to ensure you obtain greater uniformity throughout the lawn.
2. Mowing guidance
During the winter, mowing isn’t necessary, but as soon as the temperatures rise, you should begin again. More mowing will be needed in the summer as grass grows at a faster rate.
Remember that mowing isn’t simply about shortening the length of grass but keeping it healthy, too. Typically, you’ll want to remove about one-third of the height of each blade of grass. Raise the height of your mower’s blade in high summer to account for the increased rate in growth at this time.
3. Scarify your lawn
Treating a lawn to a scarification session a couple of times a year will help it to become more aerated and healthy. You can use purpose-built scarifiers but scraping over the top of your lawn with a metal rake is often just as good.
This will help to remove dead or dying grass as well as moss, often known as thatch. Scarifying is something that will help your overseeding regime since it will allow more light into your lawn.
Late Spring and early Autumn are ideal times to scarify lawns. Nevertheless, the truth is that you can do it at any time of year when there aren’t other gardening jobs to be getting on with. The only time to avoid scarification is when there is a hard frost since your efforts are likely to be ineffectual.
4. Fit lawn edging products
To keep your borders looking neat and tidy, fitting edging products is a really good idea. It will also help you to look after your lawn by creating a true demarcation between it and the borders beyond. Steel lawn edging is robust and looks discreet. Not only does it prevent grass from migrating into borders, but it helps to stop mulch, woodchips and gravel from being knocked onto your lawn, too.
Once edging has been fitted, you’ll spend much less time and physical effort using edgers and shears to keep the lawn looking neat and tidy.
5. Feed and water your lawn
Caring for a lawn will mean feeding it from time to time. There are numerous lawn fertiliser products you can purchase that are designed for feeding grass on different soil types.
When treating a lawn with fertiliser, apply it when the weather forecast says it will rain soon. This will help to wash the nutrients into the ground where the grass can feed on them.
If no rain is forecast, then look after your lawn by watering it manually. If you have a rainwater butt available, then this is the ideal source to use when watering a lawn.
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