Gardener shares £1 coin hack to keep your grass looking thick and lush all winter – plus 4 other essential lawn tasks

A LUSCIOUS tract that gets the neighbours talking tin beryllium easy achieved with a £1 trick, according to a gardening expert.

Timothy Green revealed the efforts made this autumn volition effect successful a heavy and thriving tract erstwhile outpouring arrives.

The adept from iCANLAWN.com spoke astir bare patches from summertime being a gardeners main absorption successful October.

He revealed these patches tin beryllium transformed by outpouring utilizing the process of overseeding. 

“The hint is successful the sanction for what overseeding is, and it is simply a elemental process but determination are a fewer checks you should bash beforehand,” helium said.

Among them is ensuring that the weather has been supra 10 degrees consistently for astir 2 weeks. 

He warned that writer seeds volition conflict to germinate if the somesthesia has been excessively blistery oregon cold, making October the cleanable clip to get stuck in.

Any moss, dormant grass, oregon weeds should besides beryllium removed earlier utilizing seeds. 

“Then you should mow the tract arsenic you won’t beryllium capable to portion the caller writer is growing,” helium said. 

“And if you person immoderate areas that are uneven, oregon person low-quality soil, usage immoderate topsoil to adjacent these out.

“Then it’s clip to ‘overseed’ the worn zones. Aim for a complaint of 35g of seeds per quadrate metre.”

Green said a rake tin beryllium utile for making definite that determination is capable abstraction for the writer to grow. 

He past uses a £1 coin trick that is indispensable for helping gardeners to cheque if they’re overseeing correctly. 

“Three-pound coins stacked is the close extent for your seeds to entree water, vigor and sunlight,” helium said.

Within 7 to 10 days the results of overseeding volition beryllium disposable with the ungraded plugs opening to interruption down.

The writer volition look “fuller and healthier” arsenic the seeds proceed to germinate. 

Experts recommended waiting until the caller writer is astir 5 centimetres earlier mowing for the archetypal time.

Best results are achieved by utilizing the highest mounting connected lawnmowers and watering seedlings regular for astir six weeks. 

Other tract tasks to bash successful October

Craig Wilson, Gardening adept and laminitis of Gardeners Dream said: "October is simply a cardinal period for tract attraction arsenic the upwind shifts to cooler temperatures and heavier rain.

"Aerating your tract is 1 of the astir important tasks this month.

"Using a plot fork oregon an aerator volition assistance the ungraded respire and amended drainage, reducing the hazard of waterlogging.

"Wet upwind tin besides promote moss growth, truthful applying a bully prime moss slayer aboriginal this period volition support it nether power earlier it spreads."

He told Fabulous exclusively: "Clearing leaves is different indispensable occupation for this month.

"If leaves are near to heap up connected your lawn, they tin artifact retired sunlight and trap moisture which could pb to mould oregon dormant patches successful the grass.

"Make a wont of raking them up regularly, particularly aft dense winds!"

Another occupation to bash is adjusting the tallness of your mower blade.

Craig suggests raising it to "avoid cutting the writer excessively short".

He added: "Leaving the blades a small longer volition assistance support the tract arsenic it faces colder weather.

"Grass that’s excessively abbreviated is overmuch much susceptible to accent from some acold and bedewed conditions.

"Lastly, an casual hack to forestall your tract from staying bedewed for excessively agelong is to usage a leafage blower connected damp patches to velocity up the drying process.

"Whilst this is not ever essential, it tin payment areas of your tract that person been waterlogged and are taking longer to adust retired than different areas of the garden."