If you only ever buy one type of lawn feed for the summer, make it a slow-release one. The difference between slow-release and quick-release fertiliser is not marketing, it is chemistry, and in hot weather that chemistry decides whether your…
That bare brown line worn across your lawn, the one everyone takes as a shortcut to the gate, the shed or the trampoline, is not a grass problem you can fix with seed alone. It is a soil problem that…
If moss is creeping across a shaded corner while the rest of your lawn turns dry and pale, the weather is not the real culprit. Moss does not kill grass. It moves into the space that thin, struggling grass has…
If pale, sunken rings and crescents are appearing in your lawn this summer, with the dead bronze grass in the ring slowly being colonised by weeds and coarser grasses, you may be looking at take-all patch, one of the more…
If you water your lawn in summer and watch most of it run off across the surface or pool and disappear without ever reaching the roots, the fix is a watering technique called cycle and soak. Instead of running a…
If you have noticed coarse, fast growing blades pushing above the rest of your lawn this summer, paler and broader than the grass around them, you are almost certainly looking at couch grass. The practical takeaway is this: couch grass…
Microclover adds something a pure grass lawn cannot give itself: a built-in nitrogen supply. Mixed through the turf at a light rate of about 1 to 2g per square metre, roughly a quarter to a half pound per 1,000 square…
Brown patch can turn a healthy lawn into rings of dead grass in the time it takes for one warm, humid night to pass. If you are seeing roughly circular brown areas, sometimes with a darker grey ring around the…
If patches of your lawn lift away like a loose carpet, or birds and animals have started tearing at the turf overnight, the cause is almost certainly chafer grubs feeding on the roots below. The fastest reliable fix is a…
You mow the lawn, it looks neat, and within a day a haze of pale, wispy stalks has risen back above the surface as if you never cut it. The mower seems to flatten them and miss them every time.…
