Lawn Renovation
A single intensive autumn programme for lawns that a treatment plan alone will not rescue — and which do not need replacing.
- September–October
- Timing
- One day, typically
- Duration
- Matched to your light
- Seed
- Following spring
- Visible result
Lawn Renovation
From £640
There is a large middle ground between a lawn that needs feeding and a lawn that needs digging up, and almost everybody in it gets sold new turf. Renovation covers that ground: heavy scarification, hollow-tine aeration, overseeding with a fescue and ryegrass mix chosen for the light your garden actually gets, and a sandy loam top dressing worked in.
It happens in one visit in September or early October, takes most of a day on a typical Guildford back garden, and the lawn looks worse than when we arrived for about a fortnight. By the following May it is a different lawn, at roughly a third of what returfing would have cost.
We will tell you when it is not the right answer. If more than about half the surface is bare, or the levels are wrong, or the soil underneath is builder’s rubble — which on new-build estates around Guildford it very often is — renovation is money spent twice and you want returfing.
Our other services
6 Treatment, 5 Visit™ Programme
Our year-round programme, built around what your soil test actually says rather than a standard schedule. Five visits, six treatments, one technician who knows your lawn.
Thatch, moss and compaction
The two mechanical jobs that make everything else work. Take out the thatch, open up the soil, and a lawn that has stopped responding to feed starts responding again.
A fresh start
When the lawn underneath is beyond saving. We handle the part that decides everything — what is under the turf — rather than just the part you can see.
Free first visit and a written plan.
We measure the lawn, test the soil and tell you what it needs. No charge and no obligation, and if it does not need us we will say so.