Autumn Lawn Care Guide

Step one in our Autumn Lawn Care Guide is scarifying. Using an electric or manual scarifier, pass over your lawn to remove any thatch. The scarifier uses steel blades to remove any build-ups of thatch from your lawn. Don’t be fooled, while your lawn may look healthy, you may be surprised with how much comes to the surface.

This step will allow more air, water and nutrients into your lawn, ultimately resulting in a firmer and healthier end product. Do 2-3 passes for best results. Be wary, if you’re using a manual scarifier the angle you use when passing over the surface will dictate how deep the blades go. When using an electric scarifier, you’ll have adjustable height settings. Don’t make the mistake of putting it on the lowest setting. You’ll want the scarifier to just touch the surface, so adjust as you go for the best results.

After mowing your lawn, you will need to aerate it.

You can do so by using a rolling spike aerator that rolls over the surface, perforating it with its spikes. The holes that are left from this tool allow for water, air and nutrients into the grassroots.

Similar in principle to the scarification process, this will result in a firmer, healthier lawn, making it an integral part of your Autumn Lawn care.

Next, you’ll want to level out the dressing evenly across the lawn. 

A great tool to do this on flat greens is a lawn lout. This tool pushes the dressing into the holes created during the aeration process while flattening the surface satisfactorily.