How to topdress grass and why
Your lawn needs topdress, Greenkeepers used to be the only ones with access to top dressing turf. But more of us are now opting to top dress our lawns at home. Autumn is the ideal season.
Why, in the first place, should you topdress?
Simple: It makes the soil in your lawn better. Your grass will feel quite worn down after a summer of children, animals, and gatherings. Therefore, your grass won’t recover very well if the soil quality in your garden is inadequate. Of course, you could simply purchase an autumn lawn fertiliser, but top dressing has advantages beyond simply providing nutrients for your plants.
By filling in any holes in your lawn, top dressing can help make it leveller. Over time, this will also improve your top soil’s drainage and quality.
How Frequently Should I Lawn topdressing?
The condition of the soil that currently lies beneath your lawn will determine how frequently you need to top dress it. Some golf clubs top dress greens as frequently as every two weeks, but at home, even for those of us with the poorest soil, once a year should be sufficient.
Detailed Instructions for Topdressing a Lawn
You’ll need to make some preparations before you start. The lawn has to be raked of thatch and moss. This will stop the thatch and soil layers from building barriers that could stop water and fertiliser from getting to the roots of the grass.
Purchase the appropriate Lawn Soil before you start For the majority, Evergreen Lawn Soil will be ideal. You don’t want to spend an afternoon spreading weeds throughout your turf so try and remove the weeds before raking or scarifying will truly improve the soil you currently have.
Aerating your grass before you start is usually also a good idea if your soil is very compacted.
The act of topdressing is actually fairly easy. Spread the top dressing soil about your lawn as evenly as you can using a spade at a pace of roughly 2 kg per square metre (a 25 litre bag of Evergreen Lawn Soil should do about 12m2). If you want to make a certain location more even, you can raise this rate.
The next stage is to work the dirt into the grass, making sure that as much of the freshly applied soil as possible touches the top soil already present. The majority of us can accomplish this with the back of a rake, and it is even simpler if the dirt on the lawn’s surface has been allowed to dry out for about an hour prior.
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