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Lawn care treatments explained
Maintaining a lush, healthy lawn requires a combination of different treatments throughout the year. Paul and Sarah's Bespoke Lawn Care in Addlestone Row Town, with Paul's 25 years of experience, understands that every lawn is unique and tailor treatment plans accordingly. Here are some of the common treatments that might be included in a bespoke lawn care plan:
1. Fertilisation
What it is: This involves applying nutrients essential for grass growth, like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
Benefits: Promotes strong roots, vibrant colour, and overall health.
Timing: Depends on the grass species, but generally during active growth seasons (e.g., spring and autumn for cool-season grasses).
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Ensures the correct balance of nutrients for a specific grass type and soil conditions, applying slow-release fertilisers for sustained nourishment.
2. Weed control
What it is: Preventing and eliminating weeds that compete with grass for resources.
Benefits: Delivers a weed-free lawn, enhancing its appearance and health.
Timing: Pre-emergent herbicides are applied in early spring or late winter to prevent weeds from germinating. Post-emergent herbicides tackle established weeds.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Combines pre-emergent and post-emergent applications, selecting products designed for the specific weeds in a lawn to ensure minimal impact on the surrounding grass.
Examples of products: Lawn Weedkiller Extra Concentrate kills broad-leaved weeds like Buttercup, Daisy, Dandelion, and Plantain. Bespoke Lawn Weed Killer targets common weeds like white clover, black medick, lesser trefoil, daisy, dandelion, plantain, and common mouse-ear.
3. Moss control
What it is: Addressing moss build-up, which can suffocate grass and indicate underlying lawn issues.
Benefits: Reduces surface thatch and moss build-up, creating a healthier lawn and reducing the risk of lawn diseases.
Timing: Typically recommended in spring and autumn, during the out-of-season growing periods.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Utilises professional methods to remove and prevent moss, ensuring the underlying causes are addressed for long-term health.
4. Aeration
What it is: Creating small holes in the soil to improve drainage and allow air, water, and nutrients to reach the roots.
Benefits: Relieves soil compaction, improves drainage, encourages grass root development, reduces moss-loving environments, and helps the lawn cope with drought and disease.
Timing: During the out-of-season growing period, usually spring or autumn.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Offers both hollow-tine and fracture-tine aeration, choosing the method best suited to a lawn's specific needs. Hollow-tine aeration removes small plugs of soil, while fracture-tine aeration creates slits without removing soil. This is more effective than spike aeration, which can quickly close up holes in heavy or compacted soils.
Tools: Garden forks, spike aerators, hollow tine aerators, and even specialised machines can be used for aeration.
5. Scarification
What it is: Removing organic matter like thatch and moss from the surface of a lawn.
Benefits: Promotes dense grass growth, allows air, water, and nutrients to reach grass roots, and improves the effectiveness of other lawn maintenance procedures.
Timing: Ideal times are April and May in the spring, and September in the autumn, when the grass is growing actively.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Uses professional scarifying machines to carefully slice through thatch and moss, extracting it from the lawn without causing damage. They ensure the depth is set correctly, typically 2 to 3mm, and avoid scarifying when the ground is cold or overly wet.
6. Top dressing
What it is: Applying a mixture of sand, organic material, and sometimes fertiliser to the lawn surface.
Benefits: Enhances a lawn's appearance by stimulating new growth, improves drainage, controls thatch build-up, and creates a level surface. It can also help level out uneven or bumpy areas.
Timing: Can be applied anytime the grass is actively growing, but spring or early autumn are ideal.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Uses high-quality, sand-based topdressing that is peat-free and environmentally friendly. They recommend applying it at a rate of 3 litres per m², ensuring it's worked into the grass blades rather than smothering them.
7. Overseeding
What it is: Distributing grass seed evenly over an existing lawn.
Benefits: Fills in bare patches, promotes thicker, more uniform turf, and enhances overall thickness and resilience.
Timing: Often done after aeration or scarification.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Uses high-quality grass seed compatible with the existing lawn and local conditions, ensuring proper application for optimal results.
8. Pest control
What it is: Managing pests like grubs, chinch bugs, and sod webworms that can damage lawns.
Benefits: Protects the lawn from destructive invaders, preventing brown patches and ensuring overall health.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Utilises integrated pest management strategies, combining routine monitoring, biological controls, and targeted pesticides when necessary.
9. Disease and fungus treatment
What it is: Addressing and preventing various lawn diseases and fungi that can create dead patches of grass.
Benefits: Protects and strengthens the grass roots and blades, preventing diseases and boosting a lawn's ability to survive under stress.
Paul & Sarah's Approach: Uses regular fungicide applications at the correct times of the year, preventing and treating disease and fungus.
These are just some of the treatments Paul and Sarah's Bespoke Lawn Care in Addlestone Row Town offers. A thorough assessment of each lawn is always conducted to determine the best course of action and create a personalised plan to achieve a desired lawn.
The lawn, you see, it's not just grass,
Each blade is a story, it unfolds.
With soil that varies, deep and vast,
and needs that change, as time rolls past.
A standard feed, a general spray,
might miss the mark or go astray.
For weeds, so sly, and moss, so keen,
require a plan, expertly seen.
Bespoke lawn care understands
the unique demands of your own lands.
A soil test first, to reveal its needs,
then tailored nutrients, sown as seeds.
Fertiliser's timed, with seasons' flow,
For vibrant green, a healthy glow.
Weed and moss control, specific and precise,
leaving no room for blight or vice.
Aeration, then, to breathe new life,
Scarification, to remove the strife.
And overseeding, for a thicker sward,
A lawn transformed, forever adored.
So choose the path that's truly wise,
A bespoke plan for your lawn's rise.
No guesswork here, but expert hand,
To create the perfect, green expanse across the land.