Lawn Top Dressing

To improve surface levels, top dressing needs to be applied evenly over the entire area of your lawn.  The quantity required will depend on the condition of your lawn, but as a rule of thumb you should allow between 0.5 and 1 m³ of product per 100 square metres.Prior to top dressing, scarifying and aeration should be performed so as to remove surplus thatch and moss and enable the dressing to be worked deep into the sward and covering any thin or bare patches.  Over-seeding can be done at the same time.Lawn top dressing can be spread by using a wheelbarrow and shovel and then brushed in, but this can be a painstaking, time consuming process.  Lawn care professionals are likely to use a mechanical spreader to apply the product evenly and then use a mechanical brush or drag-mat to work it into the lawn.