Search your local Lawn Doctor     Free Lawn Checkup Scarifying Aeration Treatment Programmes The Lawn Doctor Service 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 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 the Countrywide Lawn Doctor over the longer term it will give your lawn the best possible chance to look good. Spring, Summer and Late Summer treatments 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. Countrywide Lawn Doctor uses 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 Lawn Doctor representative 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. Autumn and Winter 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. Click here for further information on scarifying. 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. Click here for further information on aeration. 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.       Copyright© 2006 Countrywide Lawn Doctor. All rights reserved.