What is Top Dressing Your Lawn And why Should You Do It?
Is your lawn overrun with weeds or not looking its best? This means your lawn might need to be top-dressed. Fortunately, your struggling landscape can become a showpiece with an easy top dressing lawn care process in Australia.
What is Top Dressing Your Lawn?
Top dressing your lawn is the process of applying a thin layer of organic material to your lawn to amend the soil. The easiest way to revitalise your lawn without ripping out all your grasses and starting over is by top dressing it.
You shouldn’t top-dress your lawn when plants are in their dormant stage since you risk severely harming or even destroying the grass. Instead, lawn top-dressing should be done immediately before the growing season, usually at the start of spring.
Why Should You Top Dress Your Lawn in Australia?
Here are the reasons you should top-dress your lawn:
Better Soil Quality
Lawn top-dressing adds nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to the soil. It also betters the soil's water-holding capacity, thus giving you greener grass.
Aids Seed Germination
By increasing the quality of the soil, top-dressing offers significant advantages to seed germination.
Levels Lawn
Top dressing levels out uneven areas in the lawn; this ultimately prevents drainage issues that can lead to fungal disease and erosion.
Cures Thatch
Thatch is a loose, interwoven organic layer of dead and living shoots that develops between the green vegetation and the soil surface. If thatch is too thick, it inhibits air and water movement. Top dressing lawn dissolves the thatch, enabling water to flow freely and supply nutrients to roots.
After top-dressing your lawn in Australia, you should water the lawn. Water the lawn regularly to give it a boost after a stressful dressing process.
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