Shrekfeet Independent Lawncare

  Summer is the season most homeowners associate with enjoying the garden, and the lawn is at the centre of it. Barbecues, games, bare feet on the grass, evenings outside while the light lasts. It is also, quietly, the season that puts the most pressure on a UK lawn and exposes every weakness that has built up through the winter and spring. The good news is that looking after a lawn through summer does not require complex or expensive intervention. A small number of straightforward adjustments to how you mow, feed, and manage the lawn through June, July, and August makes a significant difference to how it holds up under heat, foot traffic, and dry weather, and to how quickly it recovers when autumn arrives. This guide covers the practical steps that actually matter for UK lawns in summer, with specific guidance on the timing and approach for each one. Adjust Your Mowing Height Cutting height is the single most impactful adjustment you can make to a lawn in summer, and it co...

  Walk into any garden centre in spring and you will find a shelf of weed control products all making broadly similar promises. Kill the weeds. Protect the grass. Keep the lawn looking its best. The reality is that these products vary considerably in what they can actually achieve, and choosing the wrong one for the weeds in your lawn is one of the most common reasons weed control efforts produce disappointing results. The best weed treatment for your lawn is not the most expensive product on the shelf, or the one with the most confident packaging. It is the product that contains the active ingredients matched to the specific weeds growing in your lawn, applied at the right time of year using the correct technique. Everything else is secondary to those three factors. This guide covers the different types of weed treatment available for UK lawns, how they work, which species they are and are not effective against, and where the limits of consumer products are and why professiona...