Lawn Care Advice

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 stripes on a cricket square or a well kept lawn look like two different shades of grass. They are not. Every blade is the same colour, and the pattern is entirely an optical effect. What you are seeing is light reflecting off grass that has been bent in alternating directions. Grass leaning away from […]

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 […]

Dead patches in a lawn rarely appear without a reason, and that reason matters considerably more than most homeowners realise when deciding how to repair them. Scatter some seed over a bare patch and it may germinate and fill in. Or it may produce a thin, struggling stand of grass that looks different to the […]