Time to water the lawn
What a hot and dry spring we have had here in Surrey.
The month of May is on our door step and Summer is just around the corner. But for the lawns it felt like summer arrived weeks ago. With all this hot weather and lack of any rain, you may find your selves with the inevitable browning of the grass. This may be more of a problem if you have had the lawns scarified later into the dry spell than others. So its our advice that you get out and water the lawn. Just remember, the grass is not dead, it has simply chosen to go into a survival mode, by diverting what moisture it had to the vital root system, just beneath the top layer of soil. Grass knows that the rain will have to come eventually, so it has gone into hiding to wait it out. By watering the lawn, you will simply reverse the process and the grass will (after a few weeks) start to grow fresh new shoots. No real lasting damage has occurred, other than stressing the grass a little, and now the brown dead parts will have to be scarified out next spring.