Time spent on a simple lawn maintenance programme will reap the rewards of a good-looking lawn to be enjoyed throughout the summer.
After ensuring your lawn mower is in good working order, give the lawn a first cut with the blades set on high. Heavy or compacted soils will benefit from spiking or 'aerating' with a garden fork or wheeled lawn aerator. This will improve drainage and encourage root growth.
If moss is a problem apply a moss killer in spring. Once dead, the moss should be raked out with a springtime rake or an electric lawn raker. Lawns that have an excessive moss problem due to poor drainage would benefit from spiking with a hollow-tined aerator, which removes cores of soil. Horticultural sand should then be brushed into the holes in the soil to improve drainage.
Bumps and hollows in the lawn can be evened out by dressing with compost or a fine topsoil, and bare patches re-seeded with new grass seed to match the existing lawn.
Lawns should be fed at least twice a year with lawn fertilisers high in nitrogen to help the grass withstand weekly cutting and produce closely-knit turf, in which neither weeds nor moss can obtain a ready foothold.
At Cowell's we have an extensive range of lawn fertilisers, some contain weed killers, moss killers or even both. Granular, liquid and soluble forms are also available. Soluble forms may be applied by watering can or by hose-end dilutes. Liquid forms are applied by watering can with a sprinkle bar attachment and granular forms should be applied by hand at the recommended rate or by a wheeled fertiliser spreader.
For more information and assistance regarding lawn care and products available to care for your garden, our fully experienced experts will be more than willing to assist with any of your gardening queries.
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