Overseeding lawns

This is a guide for how best to achieve a prosperous overseeding of your lawn; including how best to overseed and how to maintain the lawn afterwards. Up to a quarter of your lawn might die back each year. Sowing new lawn seed into your existing lawn may dramatically improve its appearance as well as reduce weed invasion.

To do this, we recommend following these simple steps:

1. When the lawn is dry, cut the grass very short.
2. Select a suitable seed mixture.
3. Ideally sow after a good fall of rain.
4. Mix the seed in a bucket with some sand.
5. Broadcast the seed over the area to be improved.
6. Rake the area well so that the seed gets in contact with soil.
7. Roll lightly afterwards
8. If possible, keep off the area where the grass is to establish.
9. If dry weather follows then water with a fine mist.
10. When grass is 2-3 inches high, cut for the first time. Trim lightly and steadily to increase depth to an appropriate height.

We stock a range of different seed mixes for lawns and amenity areas, to suit any gardening and landscaping needs you might have.