Preparing Your Lawn for Winter Resilience

When summer ends, many homeowners assume their lawn can be left to rest until spring. But in reality, autumn is possibly the most important season for feeding your lawn. What you do in the autumn sets your lawn up for what you want in the summer.

The way grass plants grow changes as temperatures drop and daylight shortens. Instead of chasing fast top growth, autumn lawncare is all about building resilience — strengthening roots, hardening cell walls, and preparing grass to withstand the harsh conditions of winter.

Skipping autumn feeding is one of the most common mistakes in lawncare, and it often leads to weak, patchy lawns that struggle to recover in spring. Here’s why autumn nutrition is essential — and why a professional programme makes all the difference.

How Autumn Feeding Differs from Spring Feeding

In spring, the goal is to encourage lush, green, visible growth. Fertilisers are high in nitrogen, stimulating new shoots and greening up the lawn.

In autumn, however, this same approach can do more harm than good. High nitrogen at the wrong time encourages soft, sappy growth that’s vulnerable to frost and disease. Instead, a very different balance of nutrients is required:

✔ Low Nitrogen

Prevents weak top growth and ensures the lawn’s energy is directed below ground, strengthening the root system.

✔ High Potassium

Potassium is vital for hardening cell walls. It helps grass withstand:

  • Cold temperatures
  • Wear and tear from autumn/winter use

Seasonal stresses like frost, heavy rain, and disease

✔ Iron and Magnesium

Iron and magnesium play a big role in autumn feeding. They:

  • Improve lawn colour naturally
  • Support root health and chlorophyll production
  • Help turf resist moss and fungal attack

The Professional Difference: Beyond Basic Fertiliser

Many garden centre feeds focus only on the nutrient mix. At Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare, we go further with a holistic autumn programme that treats the soil as well as the grass.

Our autumn feeding includes:

  • Microbial boosters: Bio-stimulants that energise soil microbes, improving nutrient cycling and uptake.
  • Soil conditioning: Balancing pH and improving structure, so nutrients aren’t locked away.
  • Targeted delivery: Treatments are applied precisely to ensure consistency across the entire lawn.
  • Moss Prevention: Autumn treatments include a moss inhibitor to reduce moss ingress over darker, damper months.

By strengthening both the soil and the plant, we create lawns that resist disease naturally, recover faster from stress, and emerge healthier when spring arrives.

The Results You Can Expect

A properly fed lawn in autumn:

  • Maintains better colour through winter
  • Resists moss, disease, and frost damage
  • Recovers quickly in spring without needing “rescue” feeding
  • Develops deeper, stronger roots for long-term health

Homeowners who invest in autumn care often notice their lawns look greener, thicker, and more resilient earlier in spring than untreated lawns.

Why Now is the Time to Act

Autumn feeding is a limited window. Too early, and the nutrients are wasted in late summer growth. Too late, and the grass doesn’t have time to harden before winter sets in.

Our lawn specialists assess your soil and timing to apply exactly what’s needed, when it’s needed.

Book Your Autumn Lawn Treatment Today

Don’t leave your lawn vulnerable this winter. A professional autumn feed is the single best investment you can make for year-round lawn health.

👉 Book your free lawn survey
👉 Enquire today about autumn feeding treatments

With Shrekfeet’s proven autumn programme, you’ll enjoy a lawn that doesn’t just survive winter — it thrives into spring and beyond.