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A Christmas Card from the Grass Clippings Team

Dear Grass Clippings Reader

We hope that you have enjoyed our lawn care tips and lawn advice. The Grass Clippings Team have sent you a Christmas Card and we thank you for your support this past year and look forward to assisting you with your lawn(s) in 2009.

The Grass Clippings Team

The Shooting Star Children's Hospice - Update

In July 2008 on Grass Clippings, we featured our offer of assistance of installing new lawns around a soon to be constructed play therapy building at The Shooting Star Children's Hospice based in Hampton, Middlesex as a result of Capital Radio's 'Help a London Child Appeal' in 2007.

Lawn Guide - the ideal Christmas present

If you have a lawn lover in your family or network of friends, why not give them a useful reference on how to look after a lawn?

This useful guide, priced at only £9.50 each including packing and postage could be included in their pile of presents under the tree and provide an endless supply of hot lawn tips and lawn advice from the professionals.

A decade of poor lawn advice

The great thing about the dark evenings is that you can sit in front of the fire and actually find the time to watch BBC Gardeners World without feeling guilty that the garden demands a couple of hours of work in the evenings. Last night the build up for the Gardener of the Decade has started with reviews of how the 10 Gardeners of the Years since its launch in 1999 have faired since winning in their respective year. Five of the winners have agreed to battle it out for the Gardener of the Decade at the final to be held at The Eden Project.

Can you mow the lawn when it is frosty?

We are all aware of seeing 'Jack Frost' on the lawns in the winter mornings. Usually we are freezing our little fingers off whilst scraping it from the windscreen of the car. Frost is actually frozen droplets of 'dew' that has frozen over night on a cold surface.

What you may not be so aware of is that following continued nights of sub zero night time temperatures that this 'air frost' will actually get into the soil making it hard to walk on becoming 'ground frost'.

Now is the time to service your lawn mower

The Country is currently in a bit of a cold snap and with a few weeks to go until Christmas your thoughts may be on other things except your lawn.

I mowed my lawns last weekend, on the Saturday as the Sunday was forecast to be wet, and still managed to get around quarter to half the quantity of grass clippings off the lawns compared to in the normal growing season, which could be expected to be March to October. Check out the weather here.