How To Fertilise A Lawn

Hi. I'm Mike and I'm here at Camden Garden Center and I'm going to give you some gardening advice. I'm going to show you how to measure out and apply fertilizer to a lawn.

Here I have a packet of propriety fertilizer, this one doesn't contain weed killer. And always on the back of a bag of fertilizer, you'll find on the back of it instructions about the application rate and here it says apply 30 grams per square meter. So the first thing that you've got to do is calculate the square meters of your lawn.

When you've done that write it down and keep it safe and then the next time you don't have to bother with measuring again. Once you've worked out the square meters of your lawn you then need to multiply that square meters by the application rate. So if it was a 10 square meter lawn then it will be ten times 30 grams, which is 300 grams.

Now I have measured out here 30 grams and I have cut a piece of cloth here that's 1 square meter and to give us a visual idea of what 30 grams per square meter looks like I'm going to spread this over the surface of this, as evenly as possible and you need to keep your hands fairly low. Now when you've worked out the total amount of fertilizer you need for the entire area, here's a handy trick. You divide that total amount of fertilizer in half.

So if it was a 10 square meter lawn and you've got 300 grams to apply to the entire area, measure out two separate 150 gram amounts and with the first 150 gram amount spread that over the entire area as evenly as you can. Now no matter how you try to do that it's not an easy task, by having two separate amounts you get an opportunity on the second occasion, when you're applying the remaining 150 grams to the entire area, to put it a little bit more thickly on the areas that you were a bit thin at in the first round and put it less thickly on those areas where you perhaps put it too thickly on the first time round. .