Transform your patchy, yellowing lawn with this expert’s three-step lawn maintenance method
Transform your patchy, yellowing lawn with this expert’s three-step lawn maintenance method(Image: cjp via Getty Images)
The condition of your lawn can make or break your garden’s overall appearance. As temperatures climb and rainfall becomes scarce during the summer months, your lawn can deteriorate far more rapidly than you might expect.
To guarantee a verdant lawn throughout the summer, gardening enthusiast and TikTok creator Ish has revealed his three-step technique for maintaining lush, green grass. In a recent video, he said: “If you want a perfect lawn like I’ve got here, well, I’ll show you just how easy it is in three steps.”
Ish wrote in the video’s caption: “Today’s gardening tips will show you my tried and tested method to reviving an old, tired lawn by introducing air into the soil, seeding and feeding it. Your grass has never looked better.”
Scarifying your lawn will help remove any pesky moss or weeds(Image: Getty Images)
Revitalising a neglected and worn lawn needn’t be an arduous task. In fact Ish’s approach involves just three straightforward steps. To begin, you’ll need to prepare your lawn, ensuring the grass is in good shape and clearing away any moss, reports the Mirror.
Ish suggested using a lawn tonic or iron sulphate, diluted with water in a watering can, and applying it liberally across the entire lawn before leaving it to absorb for several days.
This treatment will cause the moss to “turn to crisp”, at which point you can begin scarifying your lawn. To properly prepare the ground, utilise an aerator, scarifier, or even a garden fork or hand rake, piercing holes into the soil to improve water drainage.
Scarifying is a lawn maintenance technique that involves using mechanical blades or tines to cut through and extract a compacted layer of thatch – comprising dead grass, roots, and organic debris – from the turf. By reducing and removing this layer, the lawn’s general wellbeing is significantly enhanced, facilitating improved airflow, water penetration, and nutrient uptake while reducing competition within the soil.
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Ish explained: “Once you’ve successfully butchered your lawn, you can now focus on over-seeding, especially where there are bald patches where the weeds and moss were. And did you know you could get special lawn seed for shady parts of your garden? Now you do.
“Leave the lawn to grow and in about four to six weeks, making sure you keep it fairly hydrated, and then after that, you want to introduce a good feed. Do this every couple months or so and your lawn will absolutely thrive.
“And if you’re feeling particularly lazy, do this in the rain. You don’t have to water it in then.”
B&Q recommends thoroughly watering your lawn to aid moisture absorption into the soil. The retailer also suggests the optimal time for lawn aeration is one or two days following rainfall, when the ground is damp.
Nevertheless, it’s advisable to steer clear of aerating lawns after “extremely” heavy downpours, as the earth may become saturated. Following scarification and aeration, you can apply generous amounts of autumn grass seed, which contains higher phosphorus levels.
This particular feed prioritises root development, as opposed to feeds with a higher nitrogen content, which concentrate on promoting grass growth. Once these three steps have been completed, Ish assured that you can enjoy your lawn “all summer long”.
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