Garden Maintenance Mount Vernon

Here we have a one off grass cut at an address in Mount Vernon in Glasgow’s East End, this was for an elderly customer who had been using the councils garden service before it was discontinued due to Covid-19. Her daughter got in touch with us as the garden had been untouched all year.

With the grass knee high and damp we could not use the lawn mower and decided it would be best to strim down the growth and allow the grass to dry out . Please note that with our regular fortnightly grass cutting customers we will cut damp, wet grass and usually cut even in the rain, this is because we use some of the best equipment to do our gardening work, for instance our Etesia lawnmowers are French made with a special design which allows wet grass to move from under the lawn mower and into the back box stopping the lawnmower from being clogged up.

Back to the garden and after strimming we raked up the cuttings into rows before bagging the waste. Due to this being the first cut of the year and in the middle of June the moss had really got a grip of the garden. This is partly due to the grass being allowed to grow long and shade the underlying moss from the sun . Moss loves damp conditions and is very spongy so its important that it drys out under the sun in order for it to be managed properly. 

I recommended to the customer that the grass be treated with a lawn feed which is very high in iron, this will kill the moss and allow the grass to re-establish in the lawn and create a nice green sword, please be advised how ever that if moss is an issue in your garden then it will need routine maintenance, such as repeat treating with a moss killing granular fertiliser in both March and October. For anyone looking to add a more green colour to there lawn then iron is again the go to treatment, the lesser the concentration the better for greening up the lawn and the higher the dose the more it will kill off any underlying moss.