Top dressing should only be required to correct any unevenness in ground preparation. However, top dressing at installation or after establishement can be beneficial on some lawns. If top dressing is required, it should only be done in late spring or early summer with a sandy loam and no more than 10mm should be applied per top dressing. The tips of the leaves should still be visible after top dressing. Quite often a low mowing combined with fertilizing and deep watering in spring will achieve the same results easier and cheaper than topdressing.

Last updated on August 18, 2010 by Agturf