Category Lawn

Spring rain followed by a sudden warm spell is one of the most common situations every gardener has to deal with in May. The grass shoots up four or five centimetres in a few days, you look out of the…

If patches of your lawn have turned a sickly yellow this month and the grass lifts away like a loose rug when you tug it, you almost certainly have grubs feeding on the roots underneath. The two culprits in late…

If you are still mowing your lawn once a week in May, you are already falling behind the grass. In late spring the combination of warming soil, regular rainfall and longer daylight hours pushes most cool-season grasses into their fastest…

The first warm, dry weeks of May is usually when anthills appear. One Saturday the lawn is flat, the next morning there are half a dozen small mounds of fine soil between the daisies, and within ten days you have…

The lawn feed you apply in the last two weeks of May does more for your garden than any other application of the year. It is what carries the grass through the demanding period from June to mid August, when…

If your lawn has suddenly developed irregular patches of pinkish or pale-tan grass over the past week or two, with thin red threads or tendrils visible on the leaf blades when you look closely, you are almost certainly dealing with…

If your lawn has thin areas or bare patches left over from winter and early spring, the next two weeks are the most important seeding window you will have until autumn. From late May, soil temperatures in temperate climates are…

Walk down any UK street on a warm May evening and you will see at least one neighbour with a hose in their hand, sprinkling the lawn for ten minutes after work. Almost every aspect of what they are doing…

The Environment Agency has put South East England and East Anglia on the highest summer drought risk classification for 2026, and most of the country is sitting on lower than average reservoir levels going into mid-May. A hosepipe ban somewhere…