Why is it important to treat your lawn?
For most of us a garden is not complete without a lawn, however small. The better it looks, the better the garden looks.

A year-round treatment programme helps achieve this. A mixture of weed controls and high quality feeds, supplemented in the autumn and winter months by mechanical aeration and thatch removal will ensure that we will achieve the best possible results.

Treating it for a year and then leaving it will mean that the feed mixes don't work effectively, weeds still appear, compaction occurs and thatch will continue to build up. By utilising the services of Healthy Lawns over the longer term it will give your lawn the best possible chance to look good.

Lawn fertilisation
To produce a lush, dark green, quality lawn, a regular programme of fertilisation is essential to replace the nutrients lost from frequent mowing to develop a strong healthy dark green sward and build up resistance to drought and disease. Healthy Lawns only use specialist fertilisers with a specific mix to suit the season. The fertilisers use an advanced coating technology which enales the nutrients to be released over time and prevents both surge growth and scorch.

Moss treatments
With increasing rainfall in the autumn and winter months a compacted lawn will retain moisture which will encourge moss to grow. To assist the removal of moss we recommend an application of a liquid moss controller. If this is followed by lawn aeration and scarifying, the underlying causes of moss will be easier to control.

Weed treatments
Your Healthy Lawns analyst will apply a selective liquid herbicide spray which is appropriate to the particular weed variety in your lawn. Often it will require more than one treatment to control the identified weeds and some like Woodrush and Speedwell can be difficult to kill completely especially in adverse dry or wet weather conditions.

We do not use weed and feed composites as they represent a compromise as it might be necessary to apply weed controllers and fertiliser in differing strengths.

To help the lawn through the winter we can apply a liquid moss control or a conditioner to harden up the grass to help it resist frost and disease. The aeration and scarifying programmes also prepare the lawn for the oncoming growing period.

Scarification
Scarifying the grass once or twice a year greatly assists in removing thatch and moss, allowing the grass and its roots to develop properly.

Aeration
Many lawns suffer from compaction, giving the grass little room to breathe. With our aeration programme, we create airways through a hollow-core aeration programme so the grass and roots can prosper.

Specialised treatments
Specialised treatments to deal with persistent weeds or individual weed types, diseases, grubs, ants or bare patches can all be carried out as an additional service.

There's a whole world of lawn care below the surface of your lawn. All the foot traffic, mowing and watering going on above the surface causes soil compaction and thatch down below the surface. This prevents the grass roots from getting adequate water and nutrients, this can seriously reduce the health of your lawn.

Many lawns, particularly those that receive heavy use, have compacted soil that restricts the movement of air, water and nutrients to the grass roots. As a result this proviedes a breading ground for Moss. To correct the problem of compacted soil, it is necessary to aerate your lawn from time to time. By Aerating it in effect removes the conditions that encourages moss. This is a difficult job to do yourself as it requires heavy, expensive equipment. But it is a service that can be carried out, without all the strain to you, by Healthy Lawns.

What is aeration?
Aeration consists of perforating the soil (and any thatch above it) with small holes that allow water, air, and fertiliser to get closer to the roots. This enables the roots to grow more deeply, producing a more vigorous lawn. In tests, grass roots have been shown to proliferate around the holes.

Scarification
Your lawn will have built up a layer of fibrous material on the top of the soil surface and at the base of the grass, this is known as Thatch. Thatch is made up of cuttings, dead leaves, stems and stolons of both grasses and weeds. By mechanically removing this layer with a motorised scarifier ensures your lawn will maintain its ability to absorb oxygen, moisture and essential nutrients that are required to maintain a healthy green lawn.

Hollow Core Aeration 
The soil below your lawn will have become compacted. This reduces the space beneath the soil that would normally hold air, depriving the roots of oxygen, nutrients and water all essential for good growth. Hollow Core Aeration removes thousands of small plugs of soil from your lawn, breaking up the sub surface thatch and allowing increased water, nutrients and oxygen to enter the soil. Additionally aeration reduces fertiliser and pesticide run off ensuring these treatments produce optimum results.