How to Treat Your Lawn in the Fall

Keep your lawn healthy in the fall, and learn how to repair your damaged turf with these step-by-step instructions.

Excerpted from How to Grow Practically Everything
Filed under: How To, Fall, Lawn Care

Brush in Dressing

Work in the top dressing thoroughly using a stiff brush or besom, lightly filling the new aeration channels, and covering the ground to encourage strong rooting. Apply it evenly and make sure the grass isn't smothered.

Use Stiff Brush to Work Top Dressing into Lawn

Feed and Sow

Wearing gloves, apply a granular autumn lawn fertilizer evenly over marked out squares. Water in if no rain falls within three days of applying it. In early autumn, the soil is sufficiently warm and moist to sow grass seed too. Sprinkle seed to match your lawn type at half the recommended rate for new lawns to help thicken up any bald spots.