Looking after lawns, the right way.
Mow · Edge · Scarify · Overseed · Feed
Looking after lawns, the right way.
Mow · Edge · Scarify · Overseed · Feed
Natural feeds, well timed — booking summer feeds now through July.
I'm Cam. I feed lawns the natural way across the villages east of Leeds — three well-timed feeds across the year, with an optional monthly seaweed feed for the soil underneath. No harsh chemicals, no spray programme. The same person every visit.
Right now it's the summer feed that matters. A lawn that gets a steady, slow-release feed going into the dry months holds its colour and shrugs off the stress far better than one left to fend for itself. I'm booking summer feeds in now, through July — get in touch and I'll fit yours in.
A lawn fed at the right times is thicker, greener and far better at shrugging off moss, weeds and dry spells.
Feeding is the quiet half of a good lawn. The cut keeps it looking right week to week, but the feed is what builds the grass up — thicker, greener, with deeper roots and more in reserve when the weather turns.
A well-fed lawn doesn't just look better. It's far harder for moss and weeds to get a foothold in dense, healthy grass, and it copes with a dry summer or a hard winter without thinning out. That's the whole idea: healthy lawns through proper care, not a quick green-up that fades by August.
Three feeds across the year, each timed to what the lawn needs in that season. Natural methods throughout — feeding plus iron for moss, hand-weeding, and overseeding the odd thin patch. Not a chemical weed-and-feed spray programme.
Wakes the lawn up after winter, with iron to knock back the moss and bring the colour up. The feed that sets the season off.
A steady, slow-release feed to hold colour through the dry spells, when an unfed lawn starts to tire and brown off. This is the one I'm booking now.
Toughens the lawn before winter — hardening it against the cold and disease so it comes through to spring in good shape rather than thin and patchy.
You can take any one of these on its own, or have all three across the year. They're priced below, one-off or as a set.
An optional extra, on top of the seasonal feeds: a monthly liquid seaweed feed through the growing season — a natural soil tonic rather than a quick fix.
And it's free when it goes on the same visit as a seasonal feed — so only the in-between months are a charged visit.
Where the seasonal feeds work on the grass, seaweed works on the soil underneath. It's a soil-builder — it supports root health, and over time it helps break down thatch and ease the compaction that heavy clay soils round here are prone to. It's not a colour boost you'll see overnight; it's the slow work of getting the ground into better shape.
I sell it as an enhancement, not the core of the job — and it works alongside the autumn renovation, not instead of it. Running seaweed through the summer builds the soil up ahead of any September renovation work, so the ground's in the best shape it can be before the scarifier comes out.
A soil tonic, not a quick fix — it builds the ground up over a season.
I think of a lawn as a triangle — mowing, thatch and soil. Get all three right and the lawn more or less looks after itself; let one slide and the other two end up carrying it. Feeding sits squarely on the soil leg: it's what keeps the ground feeding the grass, and the seaweed feed builds that ground up over time.
Feeding slots in alongside whatever else you have done. If I'm already on your lawn for the regular cut, the feed goes on while I'm there. If you'd rather have the whole year handled as one programme — cutting, edging, feeding and seasonal work together — that's what the seasonal lawn care plans are for.
The bigger autumn renovation — scarifying, aerating, overseeding and topdressing — is its own work, quoted after a look at the lawn. Depending on how much looking-after you want, it can be folded into a seasonal plan or done as a standalone job. Either way it's priced apart from the feeding, and the summer seaweed feed sets the ground up nicely for it. Get in touch if you'd like that looked at too.
A single seasonal feed, priced by lawn size — the whole lawn per visit, not a per-metre rate:
Minimum charge £30 per feed visit.
Booked as the full three-feed season — spring, summer and autumn together — there's a small saving for taking all three:
One-off or as the three-feed set — no monthly fee, no tie-in, paid as you go.
The optional monthly seaweed feed is £25 a visit through the growing season — and it's free when it goes on the same visit as a seasonal feed, so only the in-between months are a charged visit.
And there's 10% off for over-65s and loyal customers.
The autumn renovation is quoted separately as a one-off project — just say if you'd like that looked at when you get in touch.
I feed lawns across the villages east of Leeds — Oulton, Methley, Ledsham, Ledston, Aberford, Barwick-in-Elmet and Thorner — alongside my home patch of Garforth, Kippax, Allerton Bywater, Great Preston and Woodlesford.
If you're a few minutes outside that and it's a lawn worth the trip, get in touch — it's a small round on purpose, but I'll always take a look.
Yes. The seaweed feed is a natural soil tonic and the seasonal feeds use natural methods with no harsh chemicals. I water it in, and once it's dried off there's no waiting around — pets and children can be back on the lawn the same day.
No — and I'd rather be straight about that. Feeding strengthens the grass so it grows thicker and crowds weeds and moss out over time, but it isn't a weedkiller. Moss I knock back with iron in spring, weeds I take out by hand, and thin patches I overseed. Natural methods, not a weed-and-feed spray.
Three well-timed feeds across the year do the job — spring to wake it up, summer to hold colour through the dry spells, and autumn to toughen it before winter. The monthly seaweed feed is an optional extra on top, run through the growing season for the soil rather than the colour.
You can, and plenty of people do. The difference is timing and the right rate — a feed put down at the wrong point in the year, or too heavy, can do more harm than good. I match the feed to the season and the lawn in front of me, and I'm there to spot the moss or thin patch while I'm at it.
Either. You can have a single feed — a summer feed now, say — or book the three-feed season together for a small saving. No monthly fee, no tie-in, paid as you go, and the same person every visit. — Cam
Cam's professional approach is to be applauded. He arrived on time, worked out what was needed and cracked on. Really good job. Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much, Cam. — Lindsay, Garforth