Merry Christmas from The Grass Clippings Team

With Christmas Day less than a week away, your lawn may be the last thing on your list!! 

Our Managing Editor was looking at his lawn this morning and a sports field yesterday and both looked pretty much the same.  A slightly damp surface and some discolouring of the older grass leaves in the sward.  The turf grasses look like they need a feed or maybe a little bit of soluble iron to colour the lawn up and toughen up the grasses for the onslaught of winter. 

He opted for a little bit of lawn fertiliser and prayed that the weather would remain mild enough for the fertiliser to dissolve and get into the soil to benefit the turf grass plants. 

The cold weather a week ago managed to see the frost getting into the ground by a couple of inches but now it has gone and we are having an unseasonable mild spell of a barmy warm 5 degrees.

By now, you should have cleared up all the leaves and other tree debris from your lawns and got the aerator out to alleviate any surface compaction to aid in the percolation of water through the lawns surface and to help the grass plant roots breathe.  It is not too late to give your lawn a little trim too if it remains dry and a few stripes in the lawn will really lift the garden.  Having said this, it has been raining heavily for the past 24 hours so no hope as the weather is a bit against gardeners currently!

What ever you have planned for the Holiday Season, enjoy yourself and we will be back in the New Year with a few more hundred technical articles and lawn news.  In the meantime, tell your family and friends about this great lawn resource used by domestic and professional lawn owners alike.