• Lawn Treatments & Services

About Lawn Therapy

Lawn Therapy are a specialist lawn service company in sutton coldfield west midlands providing expert advice on lawn care, lawn renovations, lawn treatments ,lawn weed problems, moss control, lawn diseases, lawn scarification, lawn aeration, lawn overseeding and lawn top dressing. We can rescue even the most neglected lawns with a tailor made program of treatments. Our rates are also very cost effective for larger lawns or paddocks. We also provide a wider range of additional services when compared with other lawn care companies. All our lawn service operatives are NTPC qualified with safe use of pesticides and are trained to be able to answer all your questions. Our lawn service is friendly and efficient and our lawn care treatments are safe for children and animals.

Seasonal lawn treatments for spring, summer, autumn and winter for a healthy green lawn

We can start providing treatments for your lawn at any time of year because we know what treatments to use depending on the season and the current weather conditions, so there is no better time to start than now!



The lawn care treatment service that we offer works on the basis of applying essential treatments throughout the year - these are detailed below. We recommend a basic four seasonal treatments per year plan plus a yearly spiking/aeration, this will ensure your lawn has the appropriate nutrients it requires throughout the year to control the weeds and moss and encourage healthy grass growth.


We also offer additional lawn care services which your lawn may benefit from. These include scarification, aeration, overseeding, top dressing, garden pest control, grass disease control and driveway weed control.

Lawn Scarification

Scarifying is the physical process of removing thatch from the soil surface. It used to be carried out by using a wire rake. Lawn Therapy have powered machines which scarify far more comprehensively and are far more efficient than raking. Several vertical metal blades revolve at high speed around a shaft and cut into the ground as the machine is pushed along the lawn. The blades can be set at various heights from the surface and consequently take out various amounts of thatch etc. As well as removing thatch and dead moss the blades also prune the shoots of the grass plant encouraging stronger growth.

Scarifying is much more vigorous and effective than raking or using an electric lawn rake which tend to just take out some of the thatch. Scarifying pulls the dead moss and thatch out of the lawn but in the short term makes the lawn look far worse before it recovers. It is important to schedule scarifying so that it is followed by the appropriate weather conditions that assist the lawn with its recovery. Never scarify without previously applying some moss control 2/3 weeks in advance. If you scarify without applying moss control you are spreading moss spores across your lawn. Lawn Therapy can advise you if your lawn requires scarifying but most lawns benefit from scarifying at least every 2 – 3 years depending on soil and weather conditions. Please see the images below for before and after. If you are unsure if your lawn needs scarifying you can contact us to arrange a free survey or book a free lawn survey here.



We also offer additional lawn care services which your lawn may benefit from. These include seasonal lawn treatments, aeration, overseeding, top dressing, garden pest control, grass disease control and driveway weed control.

Lawn Aeration

Soil, particularly heavy clay soils have a tendency to compact. The soil particles get pushed closer together by heavy rainfall and heavy traffic on the surface making it difficult for moisture and oxygen essential for grass development to flow freely back and forth from the surface of the soil to the roots leading to poor root development. Poorly developed roots lead to weak grass and poor drought and poor disease tolerance. Compacted ground can have serious consequences for any lawns but can be cured by simply aerating the soil helping air, fertiliser and water reach the roots thus benefiting the grass. Lawn Therapy can easily aerate your lawn and relieve compaction. We have professional aerating machines that move across the lawn surface punching metal spikes 2- 3 inches into the ground making hundreds of small holes in the lawn. The spikes can also be hollow to enable them to pull a soil core out of the ground which helps remove troublesome thatch as well as aerating the ground. Lawns should be regularly aerated to ensure that the grass roots are healthy and can develop.

Lawn Therapy recommend that lawns are spiked every 1 - 2 years and hollow tine aerated every 3 - 4 years but this can alter depending on your soil type and the amount of traffic across your lawn.

Heavy soils will become compacted and need to be hollow tine aerated to reduce the effects of the compaction in the soil and can be top dressed with a 70% sand loam mix to improve soil ventilation.

Lawn Overseeding

Lawn Overseeding is the process of spreading new grass seed over your lawn to thicken up the grass and thus minimise the spaces for weeds and moss to take hold.

Grass plants do not live forever they deteriorate and their rate of reproduction slows down. Mature lawns often have areas of weak thin grass which allows moss and weeds to colonise the lawn. The best defence against weeds and moss is thick healthy grass sward. New seed should be regularly introduced into all lawns to replace the ageing plants. If you want your lawn to stay thick and dense then overseeding at least once every 3 years is recommended. Overseeding with a variety of different seed species can be carried out in the late winter or early spring and autumn particularly after you have scarified, aerated or top dressed your lawn.
Avoid sowing in extremes of temperature. Seed usually requires a ground temperature above 8c to germinate, shoots need several weeks without frost to survive. Seed requires 3 conditions; good soil contact, warmth and moisture. The spring and autumn are ideal germination times. Hot dry weather is bad as is cold wet weather. Wet and warm are the best conditions for seed germination and grass growth! aerating or spiking of the lawn will also assist seed germination.



Lawn Therapy can provide lawn overseeding, lawn aerating and also a top dressing service to help you develop a healthy thick lawn. We select seeds that contain a broad selection of grass species and are in constant contact with our seed suppliers listening to their advice and are currently trialing a new cold start seed that germinates and grows at temperatures of around 5c+ so we can now overseed your lawn even earlier in the year letting you see the benefits earlier in spring.



Our lawn overseeding service is quick, affordable, and highly effective.

Trading Since

2011