Spring Lawn Feed

Hi

I had a new lawn laid in October last year. It's looking pretty healthy but our lawn treatment company are unable to attend due to the current crisis. It's due a spring feed. Any suggestions on what I can buy and apply myself?

Cheers

Chris

 

I think whatever fertiliser is available labelled "Spring lawn feed" or similar e.g. Spring lawn care would do the trick. Doesn't look like you have any/many weeds so i wouldn't waste money on weed-and-feed.

The challenge will be to spread it evenly ... if you have a lawn fertiliser distributor I would do a dry run on a sheet of plastic. Run it over a measured length 10 times and then tip the fertiliser from the plastic sheet into a container and weigh it, and then work out what is being applied per sq.m.

If you haven't really got that choice then I would apply it however you can (the shaker from the packet, or "by hand") in the smallest dose you can, so that you have to make the maximum number of passes (at least 4 hours be good) and then alternate the passes front-to-back and left-to-right in order to try to get as even coverage as possible

 

If you want to use a granular fertiliser and have never done this before I would stick with Evergreen products and use this spreader.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/EverGreen-...ader&qid=1586154982&s=outdoors&sr=1-1-catcorr

It’s nice and easy to use and the settings are on the fertiliser pack for this spreader which saves you calibrating.

 

I'd be sceptical until I had calibrated it "the once" ... but maybe overly cautious? My cheap and nasty spreader lied about its application rate ... might have had something to do with the "cheap" part!