If your lawn is looking patchy after the summer heatwaves, a gardening expert shares simple summer lawn care tips for patchy lawn recovery
If your lawn is looking patchy after the summer heatwaves, a gardening expert shares simple summer lawn care tips for patchy lawn recovery(Image: Bilal photos via Getty Images)
This summer’s prolonged heatwaves and periods of drought have significantly affected gardens, plants and grass throughout the country. Soaring temperatures left numerous lawns parched, uneven, and in certain severe instances, covered in dead grass.
September presents an ideal opportunity to undertake essential garden maintenance ahead of the arrival of cooler temperatures and wetter weather. The month also offers the chance to address any unsightly patches that may have appeared on lawns.
Gardening expert and TikTok content creator Ish has recently posted his straightforward guide to repairing patchy lawns. While patches can be frustrating, they are remarkably simple to remedy, meaning your lawn can be restored to its previous condition before long.
In a recent video, Ish said: “If your lawn is starting to come back after a little bit of rain, but you’re noticing, well, a few little patches, then let me show you how to quickly fix it.”
How to rectify patchy lawns
The gardening specialist explained that there is “no real rocket science” involved in repairing lawns, but there are several crucial steps every gardener can follow to get the grass back into proper shape. For Ish, he begins by giving the brown patches on his lawn a thorough rake, reports the Express.
Gardeners should pull away any remaining spent grass. You can even retain the removed grass and soil to use as mulch for the lawn at a later stage, and even for some plants and flowerbeds around the garden.
Keep roughing up the patches until fresh soil appears at the surface. Take care not to rake too deeply into the ground.
Ish said: “What you’re doing is that you’re creating loads of little channels.”
The following step involves adding lawn seed to the bare patches. The gardening expert went on to say: “Now that you’ve channelled all those little grooves in, all you’ve got to do is just simply spread the lawn seed over. It really is that simple.
“And if you’ve got a little bit of that extra mulch that you pulled up, you can put it on the top if you want to protect it from birds if need be, but otherwise, I’ve done this on a rainy day, meaning this pretty much waters itself, and I can just go in and have a cup of tea.”
A seed spreader is not necessary for this task, as the seed can be applied directly to the soil by hand. Should rainfall not be imminent, ensure you give the affected areas a thorough watering to allow the lawn seeds to germinate.
Ish continued: “So it just goes to show it’s not rocket science. If your lawn is looking a bit patchy, simply rake it over, give it a good spread and water it in.
“As a result, your lawn will be back to normal.”
