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Learn how to improve the quality of your lawn with Monty's video advice, including demonstrations of how to scarify, aerate and fill in holes left by moss.autumn and springMore advice on lawn careHow to maintain a healthy lawnHow to repair a lawn

I have bought a lawn rake and scarifier which has got 5 different cutting height settings (positions) available but no instructions or advise as to how to decide which setting to use at the begining.Can anyone advise me. Please!! Worth watching

of all cane and plant supports to prevent injury to eyesApply a moss killer to lawns, then, after a few days, scarify to rake out the dead matterWipe teak oil or other nourishing wood treatment on to wooden garden furniture to condition it for summer

Treat field horsetail with a systemic herbicide such as glyphosateInstall water butts to collect rainwater over winterScarify, aerate and feed your lawnGather up hoses, sprinklers and watering equipment to store away for winterWrap insulation

, high cut sometime soon, weed and feed, borrow a scarifier, I’ve heard of using sand (?)  - any suggestions please? (we should not have a frost in Devon next week) If it's as wet as mine I'd keep off it. No point in doing anything till it dries out

To me it is always ladies' smock, food-plant of the orange-tip. It wasn't particularly subtle, but last night when I was scarifying the grass before the expected rain came, a robin and a pair of blackbirds took grave exception to my being in 'their

7/8 yrs established conifer hedging is dying off2.5m tall and annually trimmed for hedging; leaves are dying and causing large patches in areas. I have been informed to scarify the hedging; also that it is a parasitic disease? Any advice? How do you

lawn soil and lawn feed and seeding.  Any advice ?  Is this the wrong time of year to be doing this.  Am planning to scarify in autumn. I would treat with Weed & Feed or Evergreen 80, then when the moss has blackened  you can use the electric rake

help! My lawn is covered in moss, from a distance it looks green and normal but as you get nearer you can see its just covered with dense moss. When you walk on it it's like walking on sponge. Now I know I need to aerate it and scarify

- scarifying with a spring tine rake first of all will remove any thatch,  then aerating using  a hollow tined aerator will remove plugs of soil, allowing you to rub in a top dressing of  a mix of loam, grit, and compost (3 parts to 6 to 1, respectively