Does your home have uneven lawns? Make it more beautiful through lawn top dressing. Top dressing one's lawn involves the process in the adding of fine layer home mixed quality soil in the surface of the lawn.

Top dressing has many benefits. It can build up quality in the soil in over the period of time. Another benefit is it can help to even any of the lumps as well as the bumps which are present in the uneven lawn, filling any of the small hollows may develop. It can also stimulates grass so it can produce the new shoots, so results to cover the denser grass that helps combat those weed's onset and the moss infestation.

If you are interested in lawn top dressing, you should need first of making the top dressing by having the combination of loam's mixture, the sand, and the peat. Proportions of the 3 ingredients can vary depending in the type of soil you have. In case you have a loamy soil you can follow this guide 3 parts of the sand, 3 parts of the loam, and 1 part of peat. The ingredients should all be dry before mixing them so you can ensure they can be mixed well as what is expected.

Use a good peat rather of choosing garden compost because it contains the weed seeds which will germinate afterwards in lawn. The sand that you will use must be a lime free one so the sea sand doesn't suitable in this process.

For the heavy clay type of soils, you may increase amount of the sand as well as reduce amount of the loam.

For the sandy type of soil, you may reduce amount of the sand.

The mixture of the top dressing should be fine enough for it to be able to penetrate grass surface and then reach existing soil. Through this, you can run the mixture through the soil sieve before the top dressing is applied.

The key of applying top dressing, make sure you have evenly spread the top dressing in the area. Also make sure top dressing doesn't remain on the grass' surface. The dressing must penetrate down in the soil level.

When the mixture of the top dressing is already mixed evenly, start applying it in the lawn. Use a spade for you to deposit mixture to the surface of the lawn. Spread the dressing on the area with the use of flat surface. Remove the excess of top dressing that are left on the surface of the grass if there are any.

Finally, you should bear in mind that lawn top dressing is best to be done during autumn season.