25 Essential Lawn Care Tips for a Perfect Lawn in 2025
15 July 2025
From mowing tips and watering schedules to pest control and overseeding, these 25 lawn care tips will help you grow and maintain a healthy, lush lawn throughout 2025.
With climate shifts, smarter tools, and changing gardening habits, lawn care today looks a little different than it did just a few years ago.
Whether you’re chasing that perfect striping pattern, fixing patchy spots, or preparing for summer heatwaves, this guide has everything you need to make your lawn the pride of the neighbourhood.
Lawn Maintenance Basics
Mastering the basics of lawn maintenance is the first step to a lawn that’s not just green, but strong, healthy, and stress-tolerant. These foundational tips will help you care for your grass across every season.
1) Mow Your Lawn the Right Way for a Healthier Lawn
Mowing is one of the most important jobs to ensure a healthy lawn. We recommend mowing at least once a week for the best results. You should also adjust the height of your mower depending on the time of the year, 1-1.5 inches for spring and summer, 1.5-2 inches in dry/hot conditions and 2-2.5 inches in the autumn and winter.
2) Aerate Your Lawn Once a Year to Improve Soil Health
Aerating your lawn helps to relieve compaction whilst allowing better access for nutrients and water to the rootzone. At TopGrass we recommend aerating your lawn at least once a year to see the benefits.
3) Test Your Soil’s pH to Choose the Right Lawn Treatments
Testing the pH of the soil in your lawn can help you to tailor what treatments you should apply to your lawn. Our Soil Improver Programme is designed to help with increasing pH levels of soil whilst improving soil structure. You can click here if you wish to find out more about our Soil Improver Programme.
4) Avoid Artificial Grass: Why Natural Lawns Are Better in 2025
Although the popularity of artificial turf for residential lawns is increasing, the damage it is doing to the environment cannot be ignored. Artificial turf production is a big contributor to CO2 emissions due to its plastic nature, real grass on the other hand absorbs CO2. Artificial turf is also not recyclable and will end up in landfill when it is disposed of. So make sure to remember to say no to artificially turfing your lawn!
5) How to Water Your Lawn Properly During Dry Weather
Grass is a plant and water is essential for its survival, so you need to be watering your lawn correctly. In dry conditions you should be watering your lawn every 2-3 days, approximately 1-2 hours in each area. Make sure to water either in the early morning or evening so that you do not risk scorching your lawn. It is always better to give your lawn a good soaking every few days rather than water a little every day.
6) Scarify Your Lawn to Remove Thatch and Boost Growth
Lawn scarification is the process of removing moss and thatch from your lawn by using a machine that has vertical spinning blades. Knowing the level of scarification your lawn needs can be established through taking a core sample of your lawn, and seeing how much thatch is in the lawn. The best time of year to do this is in September/October.
7) Clear Fallen Leaves in Autumn to Protect Your Grass
When the leaves start falling in the autumn they can quickly cover your lawn blocking vital nutrients and moisture from reaching your grass. If left uncleared this will result in yellow areas, possibly even dead areas of grass. You should regularly clear leaves from your lawn during this time to ensure that leaves are not left to cause unwanted damage to your lovely lawn.
8) Switch Up Mowing Patterns to Encourage Upright Growth
When mowing your lawn make sure to change the directions that you are mowing in. Continually mowing your lawn in the same directions can cause the grass to grow horizontally in that direction and increase soil compaction. Mixing up your mowing directions will help to promote an even growth across your lawn.
9) Renovate Instead of Re-Turfing to Save Time and Money
Re-turfing your lawn is a very costly endeavour when taking into account the cost of labour and the turf itself. Renovating your lawn is a much less expensive alternative for your lawn that can be achieved at a fraction of the cost of re-turfing. If you want to find out more about why you should renovate instead of re-turfing please click here.
10) Stay Off Your Lawn When It’s Frosty to Avoid Damage
If your garden is frosty then it is important that you do not tread on the lawn. If you do this can damage the grass plant as when it is frosty the grass blade can fracture and break leaving behind dark footprints on your lawn which may take a long time to recover.
Pest & Disease Protection
Even the healthiest lawns can fall victim to hidden invaders. Here’s how to protect your grass from damaging pests and common lawn diseases in 2025.
11) Spot and Treat Lawn Pests Like Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs
Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs are lawn pests that can cause a great amount of damage to your lawn if left untreated. Our Grub Control service is a treatment for Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs to help prevent damage to your lawn. You can click here to find out more about our Grub Control service.
12) Prevent Lawn Diseases Like Red Thread and Fusarium
There are a wide variety of grass diseases all with differing levels of danger for your lawn. Red Thread is a fungal disease that causes your grass to turn a reddish colour in patches, but this generally does not kill grass. However a grass disease like fusarium can kill grass, so it is important that diseases are identified where possible.
Tech & Tools for the Modern Gardener
Want to save time, reduce emissions, and level up your lawn care game? These smart tools and tips make maintaining your lawn in 2025 easier than ever.
13) Reduce Emissions with an Electric Lawn Mower
If you want to reduce your carbon footprint then an electric lawn mower is a great option for you. Unlike their petrol power alternatives, electric mowers do not produce any direct emissions during use, reducing air pollution as a result.
14) Save Time with a Robotic Lawn Mower in 2025
Robot mowers are increasing in popularity across the UK due to how convenient they are. They will give your lawn a consistently even cut whilst helping to reduce costs long term by reducing maintenance costs, saving on fuel and saving time.
15) Keep Your Mower Blades Sharp for a Clean Cut Every Time
It is essential to ensure that your mower blades are kept sharp when mowing your lawn. Dull mower blades can damage your grass by tearing and ripping it, leaving brown, jagged grass tips.
16) Keep the edges of your lawn neat and tidy
By using tools such as a half moon edging iron or edging shears you can clean up those messy edges that are missed when mowing the lawn. Some strimmers can be used for this too.
Eco-Friendly & Creative Garden Ideas
Your lawn can be more than just green, it can be sustainable, biodiverse, and even edible. Explore creative ways to make your garden space more rewarding.
17) Create a Wildflower Meadow to Boost Biodiversity
Why not dedicate an area of your garden to wildflowers and create a meadow. Wildflowers will help to boost your lawn's biodiversity by attracting pollinators, like bees, to your garden. A wildflower meadow can bring some colour to your garden as well!
18) Recycle Garden Waste by Starting a Compost Bin
Using a composting bin is a great way to transform grass clippings and soft prunings into nutrient-rich compost that improves your garden’s health. By recycling garden waste, you’re creating an eco-friendly, sustainable soil enhancer that benefits both your plants and the planet.
19) Try Edible Landscaping with Herbs, Veggies, or Fruit Trees
Edible landscaping is the process of planting food-based plants in your garden. Planting herb gardens, vegetable beds or fruit trees are all examples of how you can foodscape your garden.
20) Fertilise Flower Beds and Borders for a Full Garden Glow
If you have lovely flower and shrub beds/borders surrounding your lawn and want to keep them thriving, then you should consider specialist fertilisation for them. Our Borders and Beds Fertilisation programme provides the vital nutrients your flowers need to bloom. Beautiful beds and borders will compliment a well maintained lawn!
Smart Lawn Care for Changing Climates
With drier summers and unpredictable weather, adapting your lawn care routine to the climate is more important than ever. These tips help your lawn thrive, even when the weather won’t cooperate.
21) Use Wetting Agents to Help Your Lawn During Drought
Wetting agents can massively benefit a lawn by improving its ability to not only absorb water but also to retain it. This will help to relieve the effects of drought during periods of little to no rainfall. You can click here to read more about our Water Conserver treatment which contains a wetting agent. This is a professional product proven on golf courses and other professional turf.
22) Try Drought-Resistant Grass Seed When Overseeding
2025 has seen a record-breaking spring in terms of dry weather and this summer is continuing the trend. If you are looking to overseed your lawn this autumn then looking newer varieties of drought resistant grass types should be considered.
23) Start Rainwater Harvesting with a Water Butt
Installing a water butt in your garden is another way that you can take an eco-friendly approach to your garden. By harvesting water during the rainier seasons, you can sustainably recycle water to help with irrigating your lawn during the summer months.
24) Make Your Garden More Water-Wise with Xeriscaping
With the ever-increasing risk of drought-like weather with each passing summer, homeowners are looking more towards xeriscaping when landscaping their gardens. Xeriscaping is a gardening method that focuses on water conservation through methods like planting drought-tolerant plants that do not need much water to stay alive. For example, Lavender is a drought tolerant flowering plant that can be used.
25) Let TopGrass Take Care of Your Lawn in 2025
Don’t have time to stay on top of all 24 tips? Save yourself time and treat yourself in 2025 by letting TopGrass look after your lawn for you. We provide a wide variety of treatments and services to keep your lawn looking lush and green all year round!
Get started today with a free bespoke quotation for your lawn!
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