Green Thumb Lawn Assistant

Want to know how to keep your lawn looking perfect this summer? We've teamed up with the experts at Green Thumb to give you exclusive advice and tips on lawn care.

A beautiful lawn doesn’t just happen by itself. Your lawn could be host to a number of problems, diseases, or disorders which could cause it to either not look at its best, or have an even more detrimental impact. The Greenthumb lawn experts are trained to analyse, treat, and cure lawn problems. An independently UK-owned and operated company, GreenThumb has pioneered and developed lawn treatment services exclusively in the UK since 1986.

So, fill in the form below and one question every two weeks will be sent to Green Thumb to be answered. Their answers will be posted here so don't forget to keep checking back to see if your question was chosen!

Your questions answered

Thank you to Barabara, who sent us the following question:

Question:

I have a large lawn area with a big dog, we leave the grass longer so she does not rip it too much when playing, what can I put on to help keep it reasonable, we are on very sandy soil. Barbara.

Answer:

This is a challenging question to answer because the sandy soil will make it difficult for the grass roots to get a good footing.

First of all, a fertiliser with high phosphorus and potassium content will help with root development.

Additionally, GreenThumb offers a treatment programme called SlowMow, which uses a high tech growth regulator.  One of the benefits of this treatment is an increase sward density and root development.  The other benefit of this treatment is that the grass doesn’t need to be cut as often.

We also offer a water conserver programme called Oasis – along with some watering this will keep the soil moist during the summer, which will certainly help as the roots will get a better anchor in the soil.

A long term, costly and probably impractical suggestion would be to aerate the lawn and remove the cores. Then top dress the lawn with a loam top dressing. This would probably have to be done for a couple of years to see if it is possible to change the structure of the soil, increase the soil density and thus improve the soil for the roots to anchor.