Divot Mix

Dressing a lawn is a habit, not a one-off. Twice a year is the pattern I would keep to, once in spring and once in early autumn while the grass is growing and the soil is still warm. Each pass goes on at 3 to 5mm. The test is not the depth but the grass: once you have finished, the tips must still be clearly visible across the whole area. Bury them and the sward underneath dies back. Work it in with the back of a rake, then a stiff broom in two or three directions, and only dress when the grass is dry, (damp grass drags the material into clumps). Holes deeper than about 25mm should be filled over two or three dressings across a season for the same reason. A seeded repair needs 4 to 30 days to germinate and 6 to 10 weeks before it takes real foot traffic.

Divot Mix comes in a builders bag holding approximately 700 litres, or 0.7 cubic metres so at 3mm a bag dresses roughly 230 square metres, at 5mm roughly 140, and filling hollows at 25mm it covers about 28. Most domestic lawns run between 50 and 200 square metres, so one bag usually does a full dressing with plenty left for patching through the year. Read the specification rather than the photograph: the ratio and the screen size are the two numbers that matter. For the sandier 70/30 blend, used on pitch construction and surfaces that have to drain harder, that is our Rootzone, and the rest of the range sits on the topsoil category page.

If you would rather talk your divot mix order through with a person, ring Outdoor Aggregates on 0330 043 7585. The office is open 7am to 7pm, seven days a week.