Every bag of lawn feed carries three numbers, something like 12-4-8 or 20-2-6, and they tell you exactly what is inside and what the product will do to your grass. They are the percentage by mass of nitrogen, phosphorus and…
The lawn you come home to after two weeks away is decided in the hour before you lock the door, not while you are gone. Most holiday lawn disasters are self-inflicted: a final mow cut too short, a heavy feed…
If a strip of your lawn has gone thin, flat and bare after a summer of barbecues, paddling pools and a constant stream of feet to the back gate, the fix is not simply more seed. Worn grass is almost…
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…
