Our Customers
Thank you to our customers who have taken the trouble to tell us for the benefit of others what they think of our service and the results we have got achieved on their lawns.
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Customer Case studies
Spring 2024
New Lawn Creation – 500 Sq m
Mr & Mrs Cornford, Ugborough
Our brief, convert an ancient disused walled area fallen into disrepair into a lovely lawn.
Stage 1. Lawn health check. We visited and discussed the best options with the customer and agreed the exact price, expected timescales and expected completion. We agreed the plan and put it in writing. The following is the execution of that plan.
Stage 2. We sprayed all the existing vegetation to kill it and left it to turn completely brown and die.
Stage 3. 6 tonnes of graded topsoil delivered to property
Stage 4. Preparation. A mix of repeated passes with a heavy duty industrial scarifier and rotavator and removal of all green waste. De-stoning the area and leveling bumps and dips with the graded top soil, raking and heeling the area and re-raking as required until completely happy with the levels
Stage 5. Top-dressing. Supply and apply a specialist soil top-dressing, in this case high in organic matter, to cover thinly over the whole area.
Stage 6. Apply specialist high quality professional amenity lawn seed, rake in and lightly compact with a small roller.
Stage 7. Apply an appropriate pre-germination fertiliser to aid emergence and establishment of small seedlings
Stage 8. Cover entire area with a germination sheet to conserve moisture, warmth and speed up germination
Stage 9. Check progress - remove germination sheet two weeks later.
Stage 10. Post lawn establishment visits and checks, reseeding any areas required and do the first cut.
Spring 2023
Tired lawn improvement 1400 Sq m
Our brief – The customers had been living abroad and wanted to improve a thin, old mossy, and weedy lawn which had deteriorated in their absence.
Stage 1. Lawn health check. We visited the lawn to discuss the best options and costs with the customer. We took several soil profile cores throughout the garden to show the customer and help explain the plan. We agreed to proceed with our Essential Plus+ Annual lawn treatment programme with the extra addition of scarification. The customer did not want to top dress the lawn at this stage. This lawn had a lot of deep thatch which would continue to hold the lawn back from its full potential – hence the need for scarification.
Stage 2. First spring treatments – March 23. We applied moss control, weed control and fertiliser to the lawns. The moss control reduced the bulkiness of the living moss prior to scarification and kelp the volume of green waste lower. Weed control began the process of reducing the population of weeds actively growing and fertiliser application began to increase the level of nutrients in the soil profile.
Stage 3. Heavy scarification. In places we scarified 6-7 times to remove all the thatch from the lawn before removing all the waste from site.
Stage 4. Aeration and overseeding. We fracture tine aerated the lawn with two passes and then overseeded with high quality amenity lawn seed.
Stage 5. We continued with the next 4 seasonal lawn treatment visits to provide appropriate nutrition to the lawn, spot treat new weeds and retreat moss where all the spores were not controlled by the scarification and thatch removal operation.
The results. The lawn took 2-3 months to recover from spring scarification. Scarification is a case of a bit of pain for maximum gain and seems to be two steps backwards but then 4 steps forwards. However, the end result is excellent and the customer is very happy.
