Category: Lawn Health

It is the question we get asked more than any other, usually before the first treatment and almost always by someone with a dog. The honest answer is probably not the one you are expecting, because most of what is written about this online is wrong, or at least written by people being cautious about […]

January is the month most lawns look their worst and most owners feel they should be doing something about it. Flat, dull, soft underfoot, mossy in the shaded corners, and marked with every footprint made since Christmas. The useful answer is not a long list of jobs. It is a short list of things worth […]

There comes a point every winter when you look out of the kitchen window and conclude that something has gone badly wrong. The lawn is flat. The colour has drained out of it. Parts of it have gone a dull grey that does not look like grass at all, and every footprint made since October […]

Winter is the only season where doing less is the correct answer. From late November through to March a UK lawn is not growing in any meaningful sense, which means it cannot repair itself, cannot fill gaps, and cannot recover from anything you do to it. Damage done in January is still there in April. […]

Yes, and it is one of the more valuable things you will do to the lawn all year. The catch is that the bag sitting in most sheds is the wrong product entirely, and that the difference between a professional autumn feed and a domestic one is not a matter of strength or branding. They […]

The short answer is yes. Lawn feed can burn grass, and fertiliser scorch is one of the more common causes of lawn damage that homeowners bring to us through spring and summer. The reassuring longer answer is that it only happens under specific conditions, every one of which is avoidable, and in most cases the […]

Ask any lawn care technician which season matters most and you will nearly always get the same answer. Autumn. Not spring, whatever that first burst of growth might suggest. Not summer, however obviously the grass struggles in the heat. Autumn is when the work that counts gets done, and what happens between August and November […]

Cut a small wedge out of your lawn with a spade and look at it from the side. Three distinct layers: green leaf at the top, dark soil at the bottom, and between them a band of brown fibrous material that looks a bit like coconut matting. That middle layer is thatch, and how thick […]

Compacted soil is the cause behind a surprising proportion of everything that goes wrong with a domestic lawn. Poor drainage, moss, drought damage, thin worn patches, disappointing results from feeding, slow recovery from wear. All of them can be traced back to soil that has been squeezed until there is nowhere left for air and […]

A frosty lawn can look beautiful. Silvered blades. Crisp edges. A quiet stillness across the garden. It can also be surprisingly fragile. Let’s take a look at what frost actually does to grass — and why walking across a frozen lawn can leave damage that lasts well into spring.   What happens when grass freezes? […]