Feeding Lawns

Just like us, lawns need regular food to look their best and stay healthy. As well, regular feeding supports new growth and that beautiful green colour. Having a healthy lawn can help keep the house cooler in summer, make it look visually appealing and provide a great outdoor space for family and friends.

Understanding a little about fertilisers and lawns can help you to achieve the best feeding regime. Check out our helpful article Seasol’s Guide to Lawn Fertilisers.

Spring feeding

Spring is the critical season to feed most lawns as they wake from winter dormancy and respond to warmer temperatures. If you only feed your lawn once a year, do it in spring. Following, our spring lawn tips before feeding can help to improve lawns by getting them ready to take on fertilisers and encourage healthy, lush green growth

Apply Seasol for Lush Green Lawns or Seasol for Buffalo Lawns every two weeks to a month during the growing season. These fast-acting liquid fertilisers and soil improvers start working quickly to enhance the health of both the soil and the lawn. Additionally, they contain a wetting agent to ensure water reaches the lawn’s root system effectively.

Seasol for Lush Green Lawns or Seasol for Buffalo Lawns are available in two options: as a ready-to-use hose-on pack or in a concentrated. For established lawns, if you’re using a watering can, mix 60 mL of the concentrate with 9 litres of water. Apply this mixture every 2 to 4 weeks to keep your lawn healthy. If you prefer using a 10-liter spray applicator, combine 1.5 litres of the concentrate with 8.5 litres of water. This mixture should also be applied every 2 to 4 weeks for optimal maintenance.

If your lawn appears yellow, it might lack nutrients like iron. Applying Seasol Organic Iron for Deep Green Lawns helps to add iron and Seasol to strengthen, revitalize, and green your lawn.

Tip: Do not apply products when the temperature exceeds 25℃ as you may burn the foliage.

Summer feeding

To keep your lawn at its best, continue the feeding regime as per spring over the summer months. Apply a fast-acting liquid feed with Seasol for Lush Green Lawns or Seasol for Buffalo Lawns to help build a resilient lawn.

Apply Seasol Organic Iron for Deep Green Lawns if your lawn is looking a bit yellow as it helps by adding organic iron and Seasol to help strengthen, revitalise and green your lawn.

Tip: Do not apply products when the temperature exceeds 25℃ as you may burn the foliage.

Autumn feeding

Feeding in autumn is just as important as the spring feed. If your lawn care regime extends to a feed twice a year, feed in spring and autumn. Use liquid Seasol for Lush Green Lawns to help to rejuvenate your lawn after the stresses of summer and make it stronger and better able to cope with the cold and frost of winter.

Apply Seasol Organic Iron for

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Winter Lawn Care

Winter is the time when many lawns are dormant as they shut down to avoid low temperatures. However, in warm northern and coastal zones lawns still grow strongly. In cool zones, lawns are lush and green through winter where cool season varieties are being grown including perennial rye and fescue. If your lawn is dormant through winter, maintenance is very low, but if it is actively growing, follow our spring and summer lawn tips depending on your location and climatic conditions.

Where lawns are fairly dormant in winter care is all about protection from the stresses of cold weather and frost. Following a few simple tips can help the lawn to survive winter ready to burst into lush, green growth in spring.

Maintenance

Winter maintenance is all about improving soil health. Apply Seasol Lawn + Soil Booster over the lawn to help to improve soil structure and increases worm and microbial activity. It also helps to improve soil moisture and nutrient plant uptake. Apply 100grams per square metre of lawn via hand or lawn spreader and water it in thoroughly after application.

Irrigation

Check your lawn throughout the season. If rainfall is low but lawns are growing, it may require watering. If this is the case, water in the early morning to give the lawn time to dry before nightfall. The best tip for this season: don’t overwater, especially if the lawn is dormant and conditions are cold. Lawns can rot if left wet for extended periods.

Note: Avoid walking on lawns that are frost affected as this can damage the grass.

Feeding

If your lawn is dormant in winter (for example a warm season variety such as couch, buffalo, Queensland blue couch or kikuyu), don’t feed it because, as there is little or no growth, the lawn doesn’t need fertiliser and it will be wasted. However, continue to apply Seasol hose-on or Seasol Lawn Care every month to help the lawn cope with frost and cold weather. If you have a cool season lawn variety such as perennial rye, bluegrass or fescue that is actively growing, feed at the end of autumn or beginning of winter with Seasol for Lush Green Lawns.

Mowing

If the lawn is dormant over winter, then it may only be necessary to mow two to three times during this season. Unless you have a mulching mower, use the catcher on the mower rather than leaving cut grass on the lawn, as it may be slow to breakdown, which could lead to fungal problems. It is also a good idea to rake up fallen leaves to allow air and sunshine on the grass and to trim back any overhanging branches that maybe keeping light from the lawn. For more details check out our video How to Care for Lawns – Mowing & maintenance.

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