Need help with your lawn?

Topdressing to rejuvenate the lawn.

• Lawns take a battering over the holiday season and as a result are often left with bare patches and holes.
• Use a topress mix to level the surface as well as rejuvenate the whole lawn.
• Spread topdress mix over the existing lawn with a shovel.
• If overseeding, use quality grass seeds and lightly rake into the soil.
• Wait for 8 – 10 weeks, after seedlings emerge, feed with Scotts Lawn Builder slow release fertiliser.

Save time and money by using Scotts Lawn Builder™ Topdress Mix which is an all-in-one quality alternative to topsoil, manure and other lawn soils, consisting of rich organic, composted material fortified with Lawn Builder™, Hydraflo2 wetting agent and iron.

Prepare an area prior to laying a new lawn.

• Kill off all existing grass and weeds.
• Cultivate the area. Combine organic material and sandy loam with existing soil.
• Level the area. 
• Apply a starter fertiliser.
• Water well with a light sprinkler.
• Lay turf on to moist soil OR apply lawn seed.
• Keep area moist until lawn is established.

Kill the existing grass and weeds with a glyphosate herbicide that doesn’t poison the soil.

• Roundup® Herbicide Concentrate, or
• Defender™ Glyphosate 360 Weed Control Concentrate

Apply Lawn Builder™ New Lawns & Repairs to promote root growth on new grass.

Apply the lawn food with a Scotts® Spreader. Choose the one that suits your lawn situation best.  

Keep your lawn growing well.

• Once lawns are more than 8 weeks old, apply a high nitrogen fertiliser.
  
  Slow release fertilisers are best for the lawn and for the environment. Apply in spring, early summer & in autumn.
• Water lawns deeply once or twice a week if restrictions allow.
• Use wetting agents to help prevent water wastage and to increase moisture absorption.

Use a Lawn Builder™ fertiliser that matches your specific lawn need.  For example, fertilise and kill weeds at the same time.

Use one of the Scotts® spreaders

• to distribute the fertiliser evenly
• to ensure an even green lawn with no unhealthy surge growth

Promote better water absorption by using a lawn fertiliser with a wetting agent, like Scotts® Lawn Builder™ with Wetting Agent.

Deal with lawn weeds.

Keep lawns well fertilised to reduce the likelihood of spaces opening up where weeds can grow.

Use a selective herbicide that targets broad-leaf weeds.

As a general purpose herbicide that kills weeds and fertilises at the same time, use Lawn Builder™ with Weed Kill in spring and autumn.

Do not use on buffalo grasses. 

Repair bare patches in the lawn.

• Loosen the soil in the bare patch.
• Apply some top dressing.
• Apply a starter fertiliser.
• Apply lawn seed suited to your area.
• Keep the patch moist.
• Protect the area from birds that eat the seed.

Save yourself time and effort by using Scotts® Lawn Builder™ PatchMaster Seeds + Repair Mix  that everything in the one bag. 

• Top dressing
• Starter fertiliser
• Suitable lawn seed
• Soil wetting agent