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

Controlling Lawn Worm Casts

Worms are great for the lawn but in the autumn through to the spring months their casts cause a really big problem on the lawns surface making it muddy, bumpy, wet and uneven. Lawn Worm Cast control products have not been available to domestic lawn owners until now.

Don't under estimate how many worms your lawn can have per a single square metre, as the minimum can be around 45 and the maximum recorded 170!  Actual worm cast numbers of between 45 and 119 per a single square metre have been recorded with the average 45.  That's a lot of sticky soil on the surface of a lawn in amongst the grass plants.

Lawn Worm Casts - Win a bottle of CastClear!!

We get well over 25,000 technical page views a months so we know we have lots of readers who are seeking help with their lawns.

Now you have an opportunity to win a free bottle of The Lawn Shop's Worm Cast Deterrent called CastClear.  CastClear is NEW and unique combination of nutrient materials that have been clearly shown to reduce worm-cast levels on lawns large and small. 

How to Scarify a Lawn

The Team at The Lawn Company have recently completed a series of 'How to' videos relating to lawns and their care. 

Scarifying or raking your lawn is the next video that we are going to feature on Grass Clippings.  You may also like to read this technical article on the same subject so you have the text and the video to assist you with the task.

You should only scarify your lawn when the lawn is in the normal growing season and has the possibility of being able to recover and generate some new grass growth.  This does not include doing it in frosty conditions or soon after snow fall!  Too many a lawn treatment company perform this task out of the natural growing season - it is so technically incorrect to do so.

There are additional How to videos in the left hand side bar of this lawn advice blog.

Lawns: How To Scarify a Lawn 

Lawn Mushrooms

Yesterday, it finally happened!! I viewed little round mushrooms on one of my lawns for the first time this year. They had broken out in force. The strange thing is that they were not there over the weekend when the lawn had been mown..... scary stuff. One day they were not and the next day they were - best not mess with them if they can grow that quickly. We are often asked about the reasons why mushrooms appear in lawns when they have never done so in the past. It seems that mushrooms on your lawn(s) puts the fear of God into lawn owners.

Should you stop mowing your lawn in the autumn and winter?

It is a common question we are asked at Grass Clippings and our response is you should never stop mowing your lawn over the autumn or winter months. The rate of growth and mowing yield will dramatically reduce as the night and day time temperatures drop but the grass will never actually stop growing and you should always be prepared to mow it little and often. The grasses in the lawn much like the plants in the garden do not hibernate over the winter and early spring months - they still grow but so much slower - on tick over.

Worm Casts in Lawns - The Solution

Help is finally here for the domestic lawn owner having a problem with earthworm casts on their lawns.

CastClear available from The Lawn Shop is the solution.

CastClear, deters worms from casting for up to 20 days on domestic lawns. 

It is the 1^st worm cast deterrent in the retail marketplace for decades and is brought to GLEE by The Lawn Company who are in Hall 5 stand D64 in the Innovation Zone.   GLEE is the Garden Trade Show to be held at the NEC in Bimingham on 19 - 21 September 2011.

CastClear is a non pesticide, nutrient based product containing soil penetrants and organic Sulphur with proven control of worm casts in lawns and sports turf.  It is mixed with water and applied as a blanket spray with a hand held garden sprayer at 16-20 day intervals across a lawn with repeat applications only one third of the initial dose rate.