Garden Advice
Garden Advice
Practical tips, seasonal guides, and quick answers to help your lawn and garden thrive.
How to get a perfect lawn: when to feed, how much, and what makes it green
A practical guide to achieving a dense, deep-green and resilient lawn through proper feeding, soil care, mowing and seasonal maintenance. It also explains how to prevent common problems such as moss, bare patches, drought stress and uneven growth.
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When Should You Aerate Your Lawn?
When to aerate a lawn, how to tell if yours needs it, and what to topdress and feed with straight afterwards so it actually works.
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How Do You Create a Completely New Lawn? Removing the Old One, Preparing the Soil and Sowing
Mow the old lawn as short as your machine will go, then either work the sward into the soil or strip it off. Cultivate to about 25 centimetres, work in a soil improver suited to your soil type, level and firm the surface, then sow at 1 kg per 50 square metres, rake in lightly and keep it moist. September is the best month to do it. Six weeks later you have a lawn.
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How Do You Repair a Damaged Lawn? Scarifying, Overseeding and Topdressing, Step by Step
Treat moss first if there is any, then mow short and scarify to pull out the thatch, overseed the thin and bare areas, apply a thin layer of topdressing and keep the surface moist. September is the best month for it, because the soil still holds summer warmth and weed pressure is low. Most lawns look genuinely restored four to six weeks later.
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