Specialist Lawn Treatment
Independant Lawn Treatment in Surrey
From the good, the bad, and the ugly lawn — Mr Lawn helps keep your lawn “beautiful from root to tip.”
Our seasonal lawn treatment plans provide the essential nutrients your lawn needs throughout the year, helping it stay healthy, green, and resilient in every season.
Mr Lawn offers professional lawn care and lawn treatment services across Surrey, including:
Fetcham, Leatherhead, Guildford, Bookham, Cobham, Woking, Oxshott, Clandon, Reigate, Betchworth, Dorking and surrounding areas.
We run an honest, reliable, and relationship‑focused business, and much of our growth comes from happy customer referrals — something we’re incredibly proud of.
Mr Lawn is always happy to visit your property and provide a free, no‑obligation lawn survey. This survey helps identify what your lawn needs and the best treatment plan to get it looking “beautiful from root to tip.”
For more information about our Treatment Plans or to book your free lawn survey, please email sales@mrlawn.co.uk.
Lawn scarification is the process of removing dead moss, thatch, and organic build‑up from the surface of your lawn. In the past this was done with a simple wire rake, but modern lawn care has moved on. Today, we use professional powered scarifiers that remove far more material, far more efficiently, giving your lawn the deep clean it needs to breathe and grow properly.
Scarification can look a little alarming at first — your lawn will appear thinner and more open immediately after the treatment. This is completely normal. By clearing out the dense layer of thatch and moss, we allow air, water, and nutrients to reach the soil again. Once the lawn recovers, it becomes healthier, greener, and far more resilient than before.
Scarifying is one of the most important steps in maintaining a strong lawn, especially in Surrey where shade, moisture, and clay soils often encourage moss growth.
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Aeration & Spiking Service
Compacted soil can have a serious impact on the health of your lawn, restricting root growth, reducing drainage, and preventing air, water, and nutrients from reaching the grass. Fortunately, this is a problem that can be easily resolved with professional lawn aeration. Our lawn aeration service is available throughout Surrey.
Mr Lawn uses specialist aeration machines designed to move smoothly across the lawn while punching metal spikes (tines) 1–2 inches into the ground. This process creates hundreds of small holes that relieve compaction, improve airflow, and encourage deeper, stronger root development.
When lawns are heavily compacted or suffering from excessive thatch, we can use hollow‑tine aeration. This method removes small plugs of soil from the lawn, helping to break up stubborn compaction and reduce thatch build‑up at the same time. Hollow‑tining is one of the most effective ways to rejuvenate tired, dense, or moss‑prone lawns.
Regular aeration is essential for maintaining a healthy lawn. It is recommended to aerate your lawn as often as possible.
Weed Control
Weeds can quickly spread across a lawn, competing with your grass for light, water, and nutrients. Left untreated, they can take over large areas and spoil the appearance of an otherwise healthy lawn. While off‑the‑shelf weed killers may seem effective at first, they rarely solve the underlying problem. Unless you address the conditions that allowed weeds to grow in the first place, they will almost always return.
This is where Mr Lawn’s professional weed control service makes a real difference. We use targeted, industry‑approved treatments that are far more effective than DIY products, combined with expert knowledge of soil health, grass density, and seasonal growth patterns. By tackling both the weeds and the causes behind them, we help restore a thicker, healthier lawn that naturally resists future weed invasion.
Our weed control treatments are available across Surrey and are tailored to the specific weeds found in your lawn — from dandelions and clover to plantain, speedwell, and other persistent species.
Moss Control
When moss is killed, it doesn’t simply disappear. Dead moss is fibrous, and unlike dead weeds (which are mostly water), it does not shrivel away on its own. Instead, it breaks down into thatch — a dense, spongy layer that does not decompose naturally and quickly becomes a barrier between your grass and the soil beneath it.
To prevent this, dead moss must be raked out and physically removed from the lawn. When moss levels are heavy, the lawn may require professional scarifying or verti‑cutting to lift out the build‑up properly. If dead moss is left to turn into thatch, it blocks moisture from reaching the grass roots and creates damp, airless conditions that encourage even more moss growth.
Mr Lawn provides expert moss control and removal across Surrey, using industry‑approved treatments and professional machinery to ensure moss is killed, removed, and prevented from returning. With the right approach, your lawn can recover quickly and grow back thicker, healthier, and far more resilient.
Overseeding
The best defence against weeds is a lawn that is thick, dense, and healthy. As grass plants age, they naturally thin out, leaving gaps where weeds can easily take hold. To keep your lawn strong and competitive, new seed should be introduced regularly — a process known as overseeding.
Overseeding is one of the most effective ways to rejuvenate a tired lawn without the need to rip up or replace large areas of turf. By adding fresh, vigorous grass varieties into the sward, you improve density, colour, disease resistance, and overall lawn resilience.
At Mr Lawn, we recommend overseeding at least once every 3 years to maintain a thick, healthy lawn. The best time to overseed is autumn, or late winter to early spring, when soil temperatures and moisture levels support strong germination. For optimal results, overseeding should ideally follow scarification, aeration, or top dressing, as these treatments open up the surface and create the perfect environment for new seed to establish.
Using a blend of different grass species is key — it ensures your lawn can cope with shade, foot traffic, drought, and seasonal changes, giving you a stronger, more resilient lawn all year round.
Pest Control
A turf pest is any small insect or grub that lives within your lawn and feeds on the grass plant or its roots. These pests can cause significant damage, leading to thinning, discolouration, bare patches, and in severe cases, complete lawn failure if left untreated.
Leatherjackets and Chafer Grubs – Surrey’s Most Common Lawn Pests
Two of the most destructive turf pests we encounter in Surrey are leatherjackets (crane fly larvae) and chafer grubs (beetle larvae).
• Leatherjackets feed on grass roots and young shoots, causing yellow patches, weak turf, and sudden decline in spring. Increased bird activity is often the first sign of an infestation.
• Chafer grubs can cause even more dramatic damage. As they eat through the root system, the turf can lift away like a carpet. Birds, foxes, and badgers may tear up the lawn to reach the grubs, making the damage even worse.
Both pests live below the surface, so correct identification and timing of treatment are essential. Mr Lawn has the expertise to diagnose the issue quickly and apply the appropriate treatment to protect your lawn.