After the intense summer heat, autumn is a time of year when your lawns are crying out for an extra touch of TLC.
Used mostly throughout the summertime for garden parties to outdoor sports, our lawns naturally don’t always look their best at the end of the summer months. So, this is where autumn lawn care comes in and why it is such an important process for ensuring that your lawns look their most verdant throughout the new year. With a helping hand from our expert team of lawn care specialists, let us walk you through our quick guide to autumn lawn care, showing you how lawns great and small can benefit enormously from a few simple yet effective horticultural techniques.
Why does my lawn require extra care in autumn?
After harsh heatwaves and with more of us tending to spend more time out in the garden during the warmer months, this can cause our lawns to become rather worn once the summertime has passed. So, to ensure that our lawns continue to burgeon as beautifully as they did the years before, our lawn care specialists apply a series of treatments during the autumn. Autumn is the perfect time of year to do this due to the damp and temperate weather conditions.
Let’s run through a series of treatments and techniques that our lawn care specialists use throughout the autumn to maintain our verdant, emerald lawns.
Scarifying
Refreshing and rejuvenating your expansive green spaces, scarifying is an essential step in lawn care. Removing thatch, moss and any other dead plant matter that may be present, scarifying involves removing this unhealthy layer from the surface of the soil. Improving the drought tolerance of your lawn, scarifying also significantly improves the drainage of your lawn, as thatch can prevent air flow throughout your grass.
Aeration
From playing football to scrumptious garden picnics, however you choose to use your lawn, when we use our lawns heavily this can cause the grass and soil to become extremely compact. When our lawns become compact this can make it harder for air and water to circulate throughout the grass. Therefore, aerating your lawn is a great way to make sure that your lawn can become more resilient to harsher weather conditions, from periods of drought to extremely heavy rainfall.
We then top dress the lawn once aeration has been completed as this will improve root health and encourage better drainage.
Feeding your lawn
Once the extremely dry and hot summer months have passed, our lawns can often recover naturally on their own. However, sometimes after significantly harsh heatwaves, patches of our lawns can be crying out for an additional boost. To ensure that our lawns remain healthy and verdant, our lawn care specialists apply autumn lawn feed throughout the milder months. Encouraging stronger and healthier root growth, feeding your lawn in the autumn is essential for ensuring that your lawn looks its best year on year.
Is your lawn in need of an extra touch of TLC? Talk to our horticultural team today to discover how our lawn care specialists look after our lawns throughout the year.
