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Worm Casting on Lawns - The Solution

If you have had some recent rainfall where you live, you will soon be noticing tiny soil casts generated by Earthworms on the surface of your lawns.

The Earthworms will be quite active now that we are into Autumn in Counties of the United Kingdom where gardens have received lots of regular rain. It the South East, we all pray for rain still!

CastClear - The Solution to Lawn Worm Casts will deter the worms from entering the root zone to set their casts. It will not harm the earthworms but deter their activity.

Solving a Fairy Ring in a Lawn

If you have a Fairy Ring(s) on your lawn, the way to solve it / them is to apply a wetting agent such as Lawn Quencher - Lawn Dry Patch Remedy to the complete circle, inside and out and about a metre diameter away from the outer edge to get the area wet again and sufficiently wet to then support new grass seed.

The little natural micro organisms and bacteria in your soil that usually munch away at the thatch and fibre of the lawn produce a waxy waste substance that will coat the soil particles of the soil to make them hydrophobic and repel water. This is why the grass dies.

Lawn Innovation from The Lawn Shop

If you have returned from your holidays to discover that your lawn is looking a little drought ridden and worse for wear, there is help to hand in the form of The Lawn Shop who have a big bag of goodies available to help your lawn and get it back to a perfect lawn.

Lawn Fertiliser, Spreaders, Sprayers, Weed Control, Worm Cast Control, Spray Dyes, Dry Patch Remedies plus lots more!

The Lawn Shop is home to CastClear - Lawn Worm Cast Suppressant, Indigo Garden Spray Dye and Lawn Quencher - Lawn Dry Patch Remedy.

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Seeing where you have sprayed with a garden sprayer

Killing weeds on your driveway would be so much easier and quicker if you could only see where you have or have not treated with your chosen garden sprayer.

Indigo Garden Spray Dye will take the guesswork out of the task of treating your weeds by colouring the spray solution as a temporary spray indicator so that you can match up your spraying swath passes with ease.

Using Indigo Spray Dye allow you to:

Pesky Lawn Worm Casts - The Solution

It's a bit of a North / South divide at the moment with lots of rain and worm casts on lawns in the North whilst parts of the South East remain still under what could only be referred to as drought conditions.

The Earthworms will commence throwing their annoying soil casts on the surface of your lawn from late August if there has been recent rainfall until spring time, with activity only reducing when we get some ground frosts.

The answer to Dry Patches in Lawns

You do not have to travel far too see how drought ridden the lawns are in the South East.

One interesting rain fact - to the end of August this year, we have had less rain than in the same period last year and you will recall, last year was really hot and sunny and dry. The problem this year is the drought conditions have occured because of a few really hot days, lack of rain plus strong drying winds evaporating vital water from the garden and lawns at a rate of up to 5mm per hour during daylight hours.

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Controlling Ants with Combat Max

We love our Readers, especially when they pass us useful tips of advice.  Here is one from one loyal reader about a new product to control Ants in your home and garden.

Advion ant bait is apparently exceptional for getting rid of ants in your house.

It's not available in the UK but a similar product is called combat Max. It's a bait that slowly posions the ants. So slow in fact that they carry it back to the best and die there. Ants eat their dead so the dead and infects the rest of the colony eventually wiping it out.

Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the nests tend to come back a couple of week short later so it does turn into quite an expensive way to treat them. But it is EFFECTIVE!

Lawn Care is a Science

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Whether you are after a little bit of advice on summer lawn care, or lawn pests, or some advice on controlling moss, scarifying your lawn or the source of a reputable turf supplier, you will find all the answers here on this lawn advice site.

 

 

Beating the drought lawn tips

With only 16.25 mm of rain in 34 days, we are very much in a drought.

The natural cumulative evaporation rate between the hours of 11:00 and 18:00 hours today be 40 mm spread across the 7 hours, so trying to water a lawn to get some vital green colour back is a bit of a losing battle as you would need to apply 40mm of water each day to keep abreast of the natural water loss from the lawns surface and turf grass plants.  It is easy to see that you will be in a water deficit in no time!

You may think that you are applying water but all you are doing is trying to reduce the water deficit.

With only 16.25 mm of rain in 34 days, we are very much in a drought.

The natural cumulative evaporation rate between the hours of 11:00 and 18:00 hours today be 40 mm spread across the 7 hours, so trying to water a lawn to get some vital green colour back is a bit of a losing battle as you would need to apply 40mm of water each day to keep abreast of the natural water loss from the lawns surface and turf grass plants.  It is easy to see that you will be in a water deficit in no time!

You may think that you are applying water but all you are doing is trying to reduce the water deficit.

With only 16.25 mm of rain in 34 days, we are very much in a drought.

The natural cumulative evaporation rate between the hours of 11:00 and 18:00 hours today be 40 mm spread across the 7 hours, so trying to water a lawn to get some vital green colour back is a bit of a losing battle as you would need to apply 40mm of water each day to keep abreast of the natural water loss from the lawns surface and turf grass plants.  It is easy to see that you will be in a water deficit in no time!

You may think that you are applying water but all you are doing is trying to reduce the water deficit.

Getting your Weeds under control

A weed is simply a plant growing in the wrong place.  Such as your driveway, patio, terrace, fence line, car park, garden centre, industrial site... the list is endless.  Weeds will grow anywhere so long as there moisture.

Weeds really ruin the fabric of a fence line and building line and post and wire fence base as well as brickwork and pavings and a planned programme of weed management is a good practice to adopt.

DIY Vs Lawn Care Company

What the majority of lawn owners require is clear, concise and consistent advice.  We live in a service industry world and having your lawn treated is a bit like getting your laundry done. 

Increasingly, we note on our travels that lawn owners are trying one or more of the many lawn treatment companies for a couple of years and then seeking a change, more often than not reverting back towards looking after their lawns themselves now that the weeds and moss have gone and the grass quality and density is so much better than it was before the lawn treatment company were employed.

Lawn Shop Open All Weekend

Now we have had some welcome rainfall in the South East, over 8mm so far since midnight, time to pick up on your lawn fertilisation and treatments.

It has been a very dry month to date with only around 1mm of rain (before the recent spell of rain) in 22 days and with a natural water loss of some 4-5mm per hour, we were in drought conditions so far as the lawns are concerned.

There are a lot of visibly brown lawns and sports turf out there so the rain today is really welcome for professional turf managers and lawn owners.

New Lawn Product from The Lawn Company Team

Lawn Quencher™ - Lawn Dry Patch Remedy is a NEW Wetting Agent Tablet Concept that will easily fit into your chosen Garden Hose Diluter / Feeder.

Lawn Quencher™ is a product developed by the innovative Lawn Company Team for Domestic Lawn Owners.  It is the solution to lawn hydration.

Take a look at your lawn and you will see localised dry patches, maybe as a result of last years or this years drought.  Dry Patches on your lawn do not occur only during or after a drought, they can be there all year where damaged areas of the lawn have formed a hard and dry crust.

Pesticide Training via Home Study

Who better to train you in the safe use of pesticides than an organisation that is doing what you will be trained to do, each day of the year?

Weed Free are able to provide formal training and assessments for Food and Environment Protection Act Certificates of Competence in the Safe use of Pesticides. Each year, we train many Greenkeepers and Sports Turf Managers and Local Authority Staff.

We were asked multi-times to provide training one to one to small business owners and as a result came up with the the self study pesticide course concept to support our on site training for larger companies and organisations.

You can purchase self-learn NPTC / City & Guilds training modules and other publications here.

Who better to train you in the safe use of pesticides than an organisation that is doing what you will be trained to do, each day of the year?

Weed Free are able to provide formal training and assessments for Food and Environment Protection Act Certificates of Competence in the Safe use of Pesticides. Each year, we train many Greenkeepers and Sports Turf Managers and Local Authority Staff.

We were asked multi-times to provide training one to one to small business owners and as a result came up with the the self study pesticide course concept to support our on site training for larger companies and organisations.

You can purchase self-learn NPTC / City & Guilds training modules and other publications here.

Who better to train you in the safe use of pesticides than an organisation that is doing what you will be trained to do, each day of the year?

Weed Free are able to provide formal training and assessments for Food and Environment Protection Act Certificates of Competence in the Safe use of Pesticides. Each year, we train many Greenkeepers and Sports Turf Managers and Local Authority Staff.

We were asked multi-times to provide training one to one to small business owners and as a result came up with the the self study pesticide course concept to support our on site training for larger companies and organisations.

You can purchase self-learn NPTC / City & Guilds training modules and other publications here.

Who better to train you in the safe use of pesticides than an organisation that is doing what you will be trained to do, each day of the year?

Weed Free are able to provide formal training and assessments for Food and Environment Protection Act Certificates of Competence in the Safe use of Pesticides. Each year, we train many Greenkeepers and Sports Turf Managers and Local Authority Staff.

We were asked multi-times to provide training one to one to small business owners and as a result came up with the the self study pesticide course concept to support our on site training for larger companies and organisations.

You can purchase self-learn NPTC / City & Guilds training modules and other publications here.