Lawn Dressing’s combination of specialist sand and soil is ideal for lawn maintenance and construction.
The medium to coarse sand within the blend will help open up the structure of the existing soil. The Top soil within the blend supplies nutrients to aid the recovery and growth of the grass. This specially crafted mix, enhanced with lawn dressing, ensures that your soil receives the optimal balance of texture and nourishment.
At George Davies Turf, we know the importance of a good quality lawn and top lawn dressing is a crucial part of the equation. So why is it so important to apply top dressing to your lawn? Top dressing includes a mix of topsoil and fine sand that helps smooth uneven surfaces, making your entire garden look nicer. A healthy lawn is also more resistant to pests and diseases, and applying top dressing to your lawn regularly can help ensure it stays healthy and green.
Lawn dressing helps improve the drainage of your soil. This is especially important if you live in an area with a lot of rainfall. Top dressing plays an essential role in aerating the soil, yet you can also level out your lawn, filling in any low spots that may have developed over time. Our Lawn Dressing is made up of free-draining topsoil, and sandy loam to create a soft and usable consistency for your garden. It’s screened to less than 8mm, making a light, fine dressing.
Lawn dressing a lawn provides nutrients to your lawn that are essential for healthy grass. All these factors combine to make top dressing a vital part of maintaining a healthy lawn. Along with our Top Dressing, we also offer Sterilised Dressing. Our sterilised dressing is made up of 70% silica and 30% 3mm screened sandy soil. Creating a fine, dry, and free-flowing top dressing ideally suited for golf courses, bowling greens and formal lawns.
If you need any help or more information about our lawn dressing, our blog section provides you with all the information you need, including When Should I Apply Top Dressing To My Lawn. Alternatively, you can contact us via email or phone to chat with our friendly team.
George Davies Turf sources one of the best natural Lawn Dressings in the Country, we have it screened to 8 mm, bagged and delivered to our yards in Olney and St Albans for distribution. George Davies Turf has spent the last 20 years sourcing and distributing these products under its own name and as such has sold in excess of 40,000 tonnes in that time.
The Lawn Dressing is sourced in Lincolnshire, where the land has previously been growing crops and vegetables. The reason why we can source such fertile, free draining and premium soil is that sites in question have been earmarked for future development. The soil undergoes a series rigorous tests to make sure the PH, the fertility and the textural classification is fit for purpose.
The very sandy free draining and workable dressing makes it an ideal lawn dressing at a price you can afford. The lawn dressing has not undergone a Heat treatment cycle, so it will contain the odd weed seed. We have felt over the years that the Heat treatment cycle while it sterilises the soil completely, it also fries the earthworm and all the natural bacteria in the soil. If, however, you are looking for a sterilised top dressing we do offer that as a product as well, but promote the more natural product.
Any supplier can source and deliver soil in a bag, but doing it consistently week in week out throughout the year whilst keeping the product dry and ready for use is the area we excel at. There is nothing more frustrating than having a large bag of wet soil that is impossible to work with so when we say “you’re in safe hands” we really mean it.
With George Davies Turf, the product is only half the story, we feel the delivery of that product is just as important. Using our knowledge, we believe we have the formula that makes for an experience where you feel looked after from the moment you enquire about our products, through to taking delivery and beyond that with our aftercare service. We treat every job as if it is our own project and we want to help you as much as possible, giving you a nominated dispatch day and a time slot for your delivery.
We also deliver our products with lorry mounted forklift trucks, this way we are able to place the bags exactly (within reason) where you want them to be. This means gravel drives, long narrow tracks and putting the bags around the back of the house is not a problem. The only limitation is the width of the track, the forklift trucks are 2.6 metres wide and weigh two and a half tonnes empty. They are all terrain trucks and will go nearly anywhere (subject to customer agreement). High fences unfortunately cause a few problems as we can’t lift over them.
We as a company endeavour to try and make your life as easy as possible, and if you would like the bags to be split, so the lawn dressing is left in a pile or dotted around a certain area we will accommodate all we can as long as access is good, and you have a sharp knife.
Good quality dressing aids the look and structure of your lawn. Not only does it help produce richer, brighter greens, but it increases the health and strength of your grass blades and roots. It also helps even out uneven or bumpy lawns, creating a smooth and practical surface. By using dressing to fill in any holes, hollows, or dips, you create a flat base to lay turf or sow grass seed easily and successfully.
Top dressing helps improve the drainage of your soil. This is especially important if you live in an area with a lot of rainfall. Top dressing plays an essential role in aerating the soil, yet you can also level out your lawn, filling in any low spots that may have developed over time. Other benefits include:
Our sterilised dressing creates a fine, dry, and free-flowing top dressing ideally suited for golf courses, bowling greens and formal lawns. It’s benefits include:
The best time to top dress your lawn is in Autumn, before the first frost. This will give the dressing time to settle into the ground and provide nutrients to the soil over the winter. Additionally, the cooler temperatures and longer days of sunlight help the grass to recover more quickly from any damage that may have been done during the top dressing process.
For the best results, we recommend you apply our Turf Dressing post aeration and seeding of your lawn. This will help the top dressing seep into the soil’s profile while protecting any seeds. Apply your sterilised top dressing onto a flat surface (rake beforehand if needed) and let it settle into the soil.
Scatter 2-4kg of lawn dressing per square metre, focusing on brown patches and uneven areas. Rake the dressing so it lays flat before adding any grass seed or laying turf.
It all depends on your soil’s quality. We usually recommended to do it at least once a year, ideally in the autumn as that is usually when your soil is at its poorest condition.
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