Sports&Turf top dressing is designed to improve soil-based playing surfaces and lawns. The combination of a coarse to medium sub-angular sand mixed with British Sugar TOPSOIL provides good drainage and promotes grass establishment and growth.

Due to stringent, fully-audited standards, Sports&Turf has a dependable quality, assured by regular independent analysis.

Sports&Turf is a natural product that does contain annual weed seeds which will emerge. These are easily managed using normal weed-control methods. 

  • Delivery: minimum order - 20-tonne load or 10 bulk bags

  • Collection: no minimum order

Features and benefits

  • 90% total sand - 50% v coarse to medium sand: free draining and easy to apply.

  • Sub-angular sand: open and free-draining. Less likely to cap.

  • Course and medium sand typically 50%: won't block or cap existing underlying substrate.

  • BS3882:2015 compliant topsoil: promotes and sustains growth.

  • Nutrient retentive.

  • Assists seed establishment.

  • Independently analysed by STRI and Tim O’Hare Associates.

Typical rates of application

  • Rugby / football pitch: 50-100 tonnes

  • Golf tee: 15kg/m2

  • Fairways and lawns: 100kg/m2

British Sugar TOPSOIL and Boughton Loam

In October 2024, British Sugar TOPSOIL entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Boughton Loam Ltd, a leading topsoil supplier in the Midlands that has shared values for providing premium natural soil products across the UK. The agreement saw Boughton take over the Topsoil Sales & Marketing operations for British Sugar, becoming the exclusive route to market for the TOPSOIL product range.