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Lawn quality - turning a sow's ear into a silk purse

The Team at Grass Clippings are always happy to receive direct requests via email from lawn owners seeking more specific advice to their lawn problem. This request from an amateur lawn owner concerns the desire to turn an area of once paddock grassland into a lawn area. We could have replied to the reader personally, which we of course did, but the information provided will be of use to all of our readers so compiling a technical post on the lawn blog seemed more appropriate in this instance.

An old Groundsman’s saying is to give the paddock or grass area a good 'weed and feed' to see what you have got left to play with.

Controlling worm casts in your lawn

The worms do a splendid job in the soil just beneath the grass crown, but it is a pity that their casts pose such a problem for lawn owners. Worm casts on a lawn and any sports or amenity turf surface can cause severe problems for more than one reason.

Soil deposited on the turf surface will quickly clog up and stick to the moving parts of cylinder and rotary mower and also accumulate around rollers and wheels and operators feet giving them the classical 1970's platform shoes in no time!

Lawn Care Advice - the inside story

Being a turf care professional is not an easy job. Having an amateur interest in lawns and their care is harder. Getting the right advice, first time and on time is paramount, especially when you have have the vagaries of the weather to contend with.

The Grass Clippings Team promise to be technically correct, accurate and fair and support our verbal technical advice with written information if required. There are many technical pages and posts and leaflets that are free to print off on a complete range of lawn care subjects.

The grass is greener... and the clients are happy too

It is always important to ensure that your clients are happy with the level of service provided by the whole Team. It is impossible to please everyone as there are many a 'lawn expert' out there, regardless of their actual profession and the same may be said of other land based companies such as Landscapers.

Lawn Treatment estimate available online 24 hours a day or night

We all live busy lives and often the garden and lawn come at the bottom of the pile when it comes to time allocation. Any money spent on a lawn is a good investment so long as it follows the flow chart of lawn care science and the timing is correct relative to the lawn's natural growth cycle.

How to grow grass on a brick as an alternative to on your lawn....

Scotts the US based lawn and garden products company will launch 'grow grass on a brick' EZ Seed at the currently running Glee Garden Centre Trade Exhibition at the Birmingham NEC, reports Matthew Appleby of Horticulture Week.

After its great success in the US, the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company will lauch the EZ Seed product in the UK at Glee on Sunday 20th September.

In a limited first-year US release in 2009, EZ Seed led to a 70%-plus increase in consumer purchases of lawn patching products. The expansion of its Marysville facility will allow EZ Seed to be distributed nationally in 2010 and in Europe in 2011.

Scotts Miracle-Grow to launch 'revolution' in lawn care

Scotts Miracle-Gro the company beind the famous Evergreen Lawn Care range is to launch a "revolution" in lawn care at the garden centre trade exhibition 'Glee' that commences on Sunday 20th September at the NEC in Birmingham reports Matthew Appleby, of Horticulture Week. Scotts, in Hall 5 stand B30/C31, is hosting a champagne reception and photo call on Sunday 20 September at 10.30am to launch the new lawn care product.

A helping hand to prevent dog urine burn in lawns

Dog Urine Burns - a big concern for all dog and lawn owners. The two do not always go togeher. I speak with first hand experience of the problems us lawn owners face from the many pee marks and scars and dead areas our dogs present us with each month.

Derek Walder BEM receives Long Service Award

HRH The Duke of Kent yesterday presented a long-standing service award to Derek Walder BEM to commemorate Derek’s 27 years as Site Operations Manager of the annual IOG SALTEX exhibition. The award was one of a number of presentations made by HRH The Duke of Kent during a very busy afternoon at the show which has so far this year recorded visitor numbers superseding those of last year and 2007.

IOG Saltex - the premier ground care exhibition

If you are a regular commuter along the M4 motorway this week you would have noticed an increase in traffic in and around the Windsor area. The Institute of Groundsmanship SALTEX Exhibition was in full swing this week - lots of turf professionals standing in on a grass race course, talking about grass is the way one of my friends describes the trade show. HRH The Duke of Kent opened the show.

Turf Supplier features Lawn Blog

The Team at Grass Clippings are pleased to announce that a leading lawn turf supplier has taken the steps to feature our Lawn Blog on their company web site.

Q Lawns based in Norfolk, have recently teamed up with The Lawn Company with the view towards helping their clients with lawn technical requests and on going timely lawn advice.

Hire lawn care machinery from HSS Hire

Managing and owning a lawn can lead to a garden shed full of lawn machinery that may only get the light of day a few times a year. Buying a fleet consisting of lawn scarifier, lawn aerator, lawn mower and lawn sprayer to name a few, can add pounds to your capital and maintenance budgets. Why not consider hiring the lawn care machinery instead - from within your local area too.

The traditional lawn renovation season will soon be upon us. Your local bowls, cricket, tennis or croquet club will be planning their turf renovation programmes and booking the necessary equipment and products to make the renovation process flow smoothly. Demand for lawn scarifiers and lawn aerators can be high during the peak autumn lawn renovation months so booking early to avoid the rush is important.

Buy lawn turf - late summer offer

The Lawn Shop have advised us that they have a late summer offer on the cost of lawn turf at only £1.15 per single square metre including VAT, so long as you purchase a minimum of 30 square metres per each order. The turf normally sells for £2.45, so a dramatic saving to be made.

The seeded lawn turf is suitable for most lawn requirements and is grown on the rich dark organic Norfolk Fens and is easy to handle and lay.