For ten years the lawn thinned out under a big beech on heavy clay. Moss crept in, bare patches spread, and three different gardeners tried in turn — and each one quietly gave up. Reseeding never took.
A €49 soil test found the cause in a week: pH 5.2, far too acidic, and a clear iron deficiency. The grass wasn’t lazy — it simply couldn’t take up the little feed it was given.
An independent lab test for pH, NPK and iron — instead of guessing with yet another bag of granules.
A targeted lime plan plus Colour Elixir to lift pH toward 6.5 and green up the iron-starved blades.
Shadow + Essential elixirs matched to a low-light clay garden, applied little and often through the season.
No digging up the lawn, no fresh turf. Over twelve months the plan lifted pH from 5.2 to 6.5, cleared the moss and filled the bare patches under the tree — at roughly a fifth of what a gardener had been charging.
We’d spent years and three gardeners on it. A forty-nine-euro soil test found the problem in a week — it was the pH all along.
It starts with one soil test. We turn the numbers into a simple, seasonal plan you can order in a click.