Three simple Spring lawn care steps.

If your lawn is looking a little winter weary, then spring is a fantastic opportunity to bring it back to its lush green best.

Here are three simple spring lawn care steps you can do to take your lawn from drab to fab:

1. Repair the bare patches

Bare spots in lawns can be because of many different factors, including lawn insect pests, diseases and wear and tear from kids and pets. Weeds are opportunistic and will quickly invade bare patches in the lawn if you don’t repair them.

Early spring is a great time for lawn repair as new grass seedlings will be able to establish before the hot weather arrives.

Remove any dead grass and gently cultivate and loosen the soil in the bare patch.

Next scatter some Yates Seed'n'Feed over the patch and gently rake into the surface. It's very important to water the patch regularly as the new grass establishes.

Yates Seed'n'Feed is an easy to use lawn repair product containing all the ingredients needed to fix bare patches and thicken an existing lawn. It has a dual action: it includes fast-germinating grass seed and fertiliser, to feed new and existing grass for up to 12 weeks.

You can repair and renovate your lawn all year round, as Yates Seed'n'Feed contains the same seed varietals as Yates Sow Anytime Lawn Seed, so it will germinate at temperatures as low as 3°C.

2. Feeding

It takes a lot of energy for lawns to grow the thick, deep green growth that is beautiful to walk and play on and makes a fantastic looking front and back yard. We also mow lawns constantly throughout the warmer seasons, which removes lots of nutrients from the soil.

Regular feeding with an organic lawn food like Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic Lawn Food not only helps improve the organic matter content and health of the soil, but is also a source of gentle slow release nutrients, to promote a lovely green lawn.

3. Weed Control

Clover is a very vigorous lawn weed and its dense foliage can quickly smother lawns. Lawn grass trying to grow underneath and within patches of clover will really suffer from lack of light, water and nutrients.

Onehunga weed is a real irritant in backyards (and in kid’s feet and pet paws!). It’s a small ferny rosette shaped weed and it produces prickly, spiny flower heads that result in the lawn 'ouch' factor. Onehunga weed needs to be controlled in early spring, before it has a chance to flower and grow its nasty prickles.

Yates Weed n Feed Double Action Hose on is an easy to use, hose-on pack for control of clover and Onehunga weed in your lawn, as well as other broadleaf weeds like dandelion and thistles.

Yates^® Weed’n’Feed^® also contains added nitrogen and iron to promote a lush, deep green lawn, phosphorus for strong root development and potassium to encourage disease resistance. A 2L pack of hose-on Yates Weed’n’Feed will control weeds in 130 m² of lawn and a 4L pack will treat a large 260 m² lawn.

Yates Weed n Feed Double Action Concentrate, which treats 65 m² of lawn. Like hose-on Yates Weed'n'Feed, it selectively controls the most common broadleaf weeds in lawns and contains nitrogen and iron to promote a lush deep green lawn and also includes wetting agent for improved spray coverage and leaf penetration.

It’s ideal for gardeners with smaller lawn areas or where hose access is difficult. It can be applied with a watering can or garden sprayer.