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How to establish your new lawn turf quickly

You need to make sure that you treat your new lawn like a newly born baby - look after it! Feed it, water it, caress it, talk to it if you have to, but most of all do not neglect it. The first two to three weeks are the "critical phase" in the establishment of a new lawn from turf. All too often, lawn owners have a new lawn laid then fail to look after it and then blame the company who supplied or laid the turf when problems develop after a few weeks later. Follow these simple rules to ensure that your newly laid lawn gets a head start.

Where to buy quality lawn turf

Laying a lawn is just like home DIY. You must ensure that the quality of the paint applied to the walls is the best you can afford. The same applies to lawn turf. Just because it looks green in the turf field does not mean that it is quality lawn turf. Like paint, you get what you pay for. If you want a meadow lawn then some locally grown meadow turf from a local Farmer will suffice. Should you want a lawn of quality from the onset then buying turf from a reputable supplier is so important as it will meet numerous quality standards before it leaves the field en route to you.

Croquet Association recommends The Lawn Company

The Croquet Association (CA) is the national governing body for the sport of Croquet in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. There are numerous Croquet Clubs located around the United Kingdom that are always keen to attract new players of all ages. Croquet is an ideal way to spend a summer’s afternoon. It provides some gentle exercise without being too strenuous, it is suitable for all ages, it involves a combination of mental and physical skills, and it is possible to socialise at the same time as you are playing.

Controlling Japanese Knotweed in your garden

When you are involved with weed control, you will always get asked about a wide range of weeds that can appear in a garden, even though your specialist knowledge is really lawn weeds. Being the helpful sort, we like to keep you up to date with all weed related matters and this technical post is about controlling Japanese Knotweed and provides some up to date news about this invasive weed.

Apply Pesticides Safely - use approved Lawn Treatment Operatives

We all know that Pesticides get a bad name in the media and press. Lawn Treatment companies should have qualified and skilled lawn technicians capable of following the product labels, making applications of lawn care products correctly but most of all, a grasp of what they are employed to do when visiting a clients' lawn.

That's it - School's out for summer - whoopee!

It is official - the long school summer holiday season has started today. One of my neighbours has the sedatives ready to cope with the need to come up with entertaining things for her Son to do each day. One thing for sure, everyone will be relying on the weather so they can enjoy the great outdoors, not much fun being cooped up inside on a rainy day.

Preventing an outbreak of Red Thread Disease

Red Thread Disease in you lawns season is now upon us.

Warm and wet environmental conditions are ideal for an outbreak of this unsightly lawn disease. It is fairly easy to prevent an outbreak of this lawn disease. The majority of lawn were fertilised in the spring months and now the benefit of that feed is wearing off. Add into the equation that some of the nutrients in the turf grass plants end up in the mower box as grass clippings and you can soon build up a picture as to why the grass may become weak and susceptible to an attack of Red Thread Disease.

Restricting dog urine burn damage in your lawn

Dog urine burns in your lawn look ghastly. It is not always easy to restrict the movement of a dog around your garden and lawns in the hope that they will always 'pee' in the same place, thus reducing the sometimes 50 or so burn marks that your lawn may suffer in any one month. Potty Rock is a new pet product that has been launched which claims to be the ideal solution for your puppies or dog toilet training and to prevent nasty burn patches on your lawn.

Potty Rock has thousands of satified customers, for good reason, the company claim ...it works! Train your puppy with ease and eliminate those ugly stains on your lawn that other pet owners wish they didn't have to put up with. It is non-toxic, fragranced brickette that naturally attracts your pet to the area you choose... Easy puppy training or eliminate burned areas on your lawn. Non-toxic and works with both male and female dogs. A must have for easy puppy training or full grown dogs. I smelt the one I received as a sample and it smelt vile!

One man went to mow... with 365 lawn mowers

They say that every Mans' home is his castle, so long as it has a patch of lawn that he can mow weekly and stand back and admire once the job has been done. When most people view mowing the lawn each week a chore, one retired Greenkeeper, Stan Hardwick has gone to the extreme and has 365 lawn mowers to choose from dependant upon his 'mood' and needs of his lawn on any particular day.

Clearly some of the lawn mowers, some dating back to 1862 are a little large and over the top for the size of his lawn, as we all know that size is important when it comes to the right choice of mower for the size of lawn you manage.

Controlling coarse weed grasses in a lawn

We often get asked by lawn owners the best remedy of controlling weed grasses in lawns. Just because it is green, it does not mean that it is a grass or grasses you want in your green sward.

A lawn should have nothing in it except good healthy desirable turf grasses but this is often not the case. Weed grasses will react violently to changes in climatic conditions such as drought or fertilisation or selective weed control or a change in soil moisture.

Clumps of weed grasses of which there could be many are very unsightly, and more often than not, the weed grasses will colonise into large clumps across a lawn.