As we enter the later months of the year and temperatures begin to cool, autumn is the perfect time to focus on your lawn.
Autumn lawn care is essential for setting your grass up for success through winter and into the following spring. At TopGrass, we offer affordable services such as scarification, aeration, and overseeding, all tailored for effective lawn care in autumn.
Whether you’re looking for evergreen or expert autumn lawn care advice, our team is here to help. We specialise in helping homeowners across the Midlands and South East with autumn lawn care services that encourage healthy root growth and restore lawn vitality after summer stress.
Please read ahead for some autumn lawn care tips from TopGrass, your go-to guide for the best autumn care and lawn practices to keep your grass green, strong, and beautiful all year round.
After a long spring and summer period your lawn will start to build up a layer of thatch, which is dead organic material, like grass, that builds up between the soil and the growing grass. The thicker the thatch layer the more this will impede vital nutrients and moisture from reaching the root zone of the grass plant. TopGrass provides a number of lawn renovation packages that are tailored towards your lawn's specific needs.
After a dry summer period, your lawn would have become more compact as a result. This is exacerbated if your lawn has a lot of footfall, from parties or children playing on the lawn. The autumn provides a perfect opportunity for lawn aeration as the ground will be softer and easier for the aerator to penetrate holes into.
Many lawns bounce back naturally after the stresses of summer, regaining their lush green look by spring without needing any extra help. However, if your lawn looks tired or patchy, an autumn lawn feed can give it the boost it needs. Be sure to use a product specifically designed for autumn use; these formulations are lower in nitrogen and focus on strengthening roots rather than encouraging rapid leaf growth. Strong roots now mean a healthier, greener lawn come spring.
When autumn arrives, you may notice moss starting to creep back into your lawn. This is because the wetter weather and milder temperatures encourage and help moss to thrive. This is why one of the most important autumn lawn care treatments you can have to keep on top of moss levels is a moss inhibitor. Our Late Season Treatment and End of Season Treatment both provide this type of lawn care treatment!
You may think you can stop mowing your lawn by the time autumn rolls around as temperatures start to drop but this is actually incorrect. Autumn temperatures are still at a level in which grass can grow. We recommend that you mow your grass on a higher level than spring or summer at 2-2.5 inches.
Regularly removing leaves from your lawn during the autumn is one of the most important aspects of lawn maintenance during this period. If leaves are left to blanket your lawn this will restrict vital nutrients, as well as sunlight and moisture, from reaching your grass roots.
From affordable lawn care plans to complete grass maintenance packages, TopGrass is your trusted choice for professional lawn treatment services this spring.
We offer everything from local grass care to best-in-class seasonal treatments tailored to UK conditions.
Yes, the autumn period is a great time for lawn care and improving your lawn's health. The weather conditions during the autumn are ideal for renovation work, like scarification, as the mild weather and more consistent rainfall means the lawn will be able to recover over the later autumn/winter period.
Scarification is the process of removing moss and thatch from lawns using professional-grade machinery that has vertical blades. Thatch is layers of dead organic matter in the lawn that, if left to build up, can restrict flow of nutrients and moisture to the rootzone of the grass plant.
At TopGrass we recommend aerating your lawn at least once a year to ensure your lawn's soil does not become overly compact and there is good access to the grass rootzone for nutrients and moisture. However, you can aerate your lawn multiple times a year, and it will benefit from it. Greenkeepers, for golf greens, will aerate many times throughout the year to keep the turf healthy!
The only way to remove moss from your lawn is through physically removing it. A moss control can be applied to mossy lawns to inhibit the growth and stop the spread of moss but this will not kill it. We recommend raking out the moss in your lawn after a moss control has been applied to effectively remove the moss. Scarification is another method of removing moss from your lawn, you can find out more about our scarification packages by clicking here.
Practical lawn care tips from the Top Grass team.
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