Top-dressing a lawn is a fancy term for amending the soil without disturbing the sod. Golfers might be familiar with the practice because this technique was first performed on golf courses in Scotland ...

Austin area soils are famous for their poor quality. Ask any avid local gardener and they will give you a list of their soil woes. Ultimately what it comes down to is we have very little soil, the ...

LONG green grass blades pierce the surface of the grey bits of grit across the lawn as dew shimmers everywhere. That's what a good lawn top-dressing should look like. Unfortunately, properly done lawn ...

Q: We built a house two years ago and are struggling to establish a new lawn. Our soil is mostly clay and highly compacted. I aerated the lawn last year and am planning to aerate again as well as ...

Routinely applying a layer of soil or sand to a lawn can cause more damage than good. This practice is sometimes referred to as topdressing. You can introduce weed seeds, nematodes and even diseases ...

11:49, Fri, Apr 25, 2025 Updated: 12:26, Fri, Apr 25, 2025 There is so much to do in the garden in spring, especially for gardeners with a lawn to tend to. Mowing, aerating, sowing grass seed and ...

Life as a whole is uncertain. Things happen that we didn’t expect and plans change without notice. Because there is so much uncertainty in life, we tend to latch onto a certainty when we can find one ...

In gardening, everything has been created with a purpose, and most things have a place. This is especially true with the types of products gardeners should use on grass and plants, namely lawn ...