Grass Clippings - Lawn Advice From a Team of Lawn and Turf Experts

Lawn Treatment Products Online from The Lawn Shop

In the final weeks leading up to the busiest shopping time of the year, since the huge increase in Internet shopping over the past two decades, there is now probably nothing that you cannot order online. 

You can even order lawn care products from the comfort of your fireside armchair.  This expands the range of products available to you to view at your fingertips from the comfort of your armchair rather than a trip to the floor to ceiling stacked shelves of the lawn care section of your local garden centre or DIY outlet and that is if they have a dedicated and good lawn care section!

The Team at The Lawn Shop are trying to bridge the gap between what’s available to the professional turf manager and the amateur lawn owner by giving you access to some of the lawn and turf treatment products the professionals use together with the advice to fully support their use on amateur lawns where of course label restrictions permit.

Aerating a lawn in Winter

One important winter lawn task is aeration - making holes in the lawn to alleviate compaction and to improve the passage of air in and out of the soil.

If the weather is mild and the surface conditions of the lawn allow the safe passage of an aerator, do not be scared to aerate your lawn over the closed gardening season. 

When lawn owners think of aeration, they always refer to 'hollow tining' which is the removal of a core from the surface of the lawn that should be removed with a more desirable soil ameliorated down the holes where the core has been removed.  What the majority of lawns require is deep 'solid tine' aeration where a cylindrical hole is made in the surface of the lawn and no core removed.

Too many a lawn treatment and care company alway insist upon hollow core aeration where the purpose of the task is to physically remove the core from the lawn's surface, only to leave the cores on the surface which is technically incorrect and we are not sure why they only perform hollow tinning rather than solid tining too.  Leaving the cores on the surface will compound the build up of thatch, the reasons why the cores were taken from the lawns surface in the first place.

What's the weather doing tomorrow?

The weather is at the forefront of our minds currently with parts of the country battling with the elements of snow, ice and frost.  National television, radio and the internet provide regular updates for those affected by the changing weather as UK residents go about their daily routine.

If you are a little more keen to monitor what the weather is planning to do over the next 24 hours or week at a more local level such as in your home town or even garden there are companies who can supply weather instrumentation at affordable prices making them available to the general public and also meteorological professionals.  One such company is Metcheck who can supply a weather barograph like the one featured in the picture.