A restoration allows you to improve your lawn without removing the existing turf. While restoring your lawn is not nearly as labor intensive as removing all of your turf and starting over, it will still require several weekends of work.

In the next several articles, each step of a lawn restoration is described, some of which are essential and others optional.

In most parts of North America, the best time to begin restoration is late summer or in fall, although adjusting pH and dethatching can be done in the spring to prepare for a fall restoration.

You will see some improvement in a restored lawn during the season in which you begin, but you will need two or three growing seasons to see dramatic progress.

Eight easy lawn restoration tips:

1. Remove Thatch & Weeds
2. Fill Depressions & Level Bumps
3. Adjust Your Soil's pH
4. Add Nutrients
5. Build Organic Matter and Microbes
6. Aerate
7. Prepare the Surface & Overseed
8. Care for Young Plants

Courtesy Yardcare.com