As the winter season comes to an end, it's time to start thinking about reviving your lawn after months of cold weather. Winter can take a toll on your grass, it's common for the grass to yellow and die back and moss to develop.
Why does your lawn need recovery after winter?
To thrive you lawn needs nutrients, light, oxygen and the right amount of water. Over winter it's likely that it's not had enough light, it's had too much water, saturating the ground and preventing air getting to the roots. People tend to not feed the lawn over winter and the colder temps slow down microbial activity in the soil stopping natural nutrient release so there's likely a nutrient deficiency. Overall conditions are less than ideal for a healthy lawn.
How can you help your lawn recover?
1) Remove any debris, that's leaves, twigs branches anything that's accumulated on the lawn over winter. Do this regularly especially when leaves are falling or accumulating after storms.
2) Treat for moss, you need to apply our Ferocity feed, this will dry the moss out (it will turn black and then it can be raked out. Ferocity – Lawn-Kit
3) Apply either Winter Shield during winter and Spring Rise as spring begins to give your lawn the nutrients it needs.
The above will bring your lawn back to a healthy lush green colour. There are additional steps you can take depending on your lawns individual needs.
Aeration
If your lawn is often water logged in winter you could hollow core aerate. For large areas you can hire a machine to punch holes in the surface allowing air to get to the grass roots. For smaller areas you can do this with our manual aerator which is the best engineered product on the market.
Scarify
Giving your lawn a thorough raking with a spring tine rake or use a powered rake or scarifier. This will rip out the moss and thatch that stop nutrients, water and airflow to the rootzone.
Overseed
If you have any thin areas to repair, that died back during winter add some additional seed to these and ideally top dress with compost.
If you've done the above, the new seed will just need to be kept damp and within a few weeks you'll have a healthy thriving lawn again.