Grass Clippings

Renovating an old tired worn out lawn

Turf grasses in lawns do not last a lifetime, despite what many lawn owners think. Like shrubs in the garden, turf grasses will become thin and straggly and require regular pruning and shaping and training.

If you keep your grasses healthy and dense and react promptly to any moss, weeds and lawn pests and diseases, then you should be able to retain the lawn in the style you are hoping for. If not, keep reading!

The majority of the ‘pruning’ is performed by the act of mowing each week and occasionally scarifying to remove the ‘dead wood’.

Winter Autumn Lawn Care

British Summer Time ended at the weekend and more recently with a few centimetres of snow covering the South of England last night - the first time it has snowed in October since 1934!

The numerous tasks of autumn lawn care are still necessary this month and a little cold snap will only lengthen the germination time of new grass seeds sown.  Turf can be laid all year round so long as the turf farm can lift the turf.

Autumn Lawn Care - what to look out for now

Autumn is the main time of the year when you will be thinking about improving the lawn ahead of next season.  If you have not started to renovate your lawn this autumn, there is still time before the autumn frosts arrive, thus reducing the growing season rapidly and potential for grass seed germination.

When should you stop mowing your lawn?

There is an Old Wives' Tale about when to stop mowing your lawn in the autumn months.  I think it is actually an Old Granddad's Tale as an excuse to put the mower away in the shed and get the slippers and pipe out in front of the fire with the feeling that the mowing function had been completed for that year!

 

Tips on Relieving Compaction in your Lawn

Lawn enthusiasts will go to great lengths, not to mention expense to work on the top surface of their lawn but totally neglect, and in many cases fail to understand, what is necessary below ground to keep the grass roots healthy and aerated.

I can imagine the shopping trolley and the garden centre full of autumn lawn feed, sulphate of iron to combat any moss and perhaps some soil and seed to reinstate low and bare patches where the grass may have failed through the year but I somehow feel that spiking is not on most lawn owners to-do list.

Japanese Knotweed Control - Death by Lethal Injection

A plant-eating predator from Japan could be used to control a superweed spreading throughout the UK, scientists believe, reports the BBC web site today.

Japanese Knotweed is an evasive weed that must be controlled now. Its' spread across the United Kingdom has been assisted greatly by lack of education and the dumping of garden green waste at waste transfer stations and local amenity dumps.

Our knowledge base is of course lawns and their care but we thought that you would be keen to be kept informed on other weed related matters.

Fair Autumn Weather to Boost Sales of Lawn Rakes

We all know how important it is to scarify your lawn. Recent market research analysis by GfK Retail and Technology report that sales over the past 12 months has been very much dependent on the weather. If you have ever tried to scarify a wet lawn then the reading makes complete sense!