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

Yellow Suckling Clover Control

Weeds in your lawn are a nightmare. One particular weed that is prevalent at this time of year is Lesser Trefoil or Yellow Suckling Clover.  It looks like a small leafed clover type weed that creeps close to the ground covering large areas from a single root. Left uncontrolled, it will quickly spread across the surface of a lawn. It is one of the more difficult weed to control in a lawn.

Trifolium dubium is a procumbent summer annual found in UK lawns and also open ground. It is common throughout Britain and is recorded up to 1,600 ft. Two distinct forms occur, one found in open habitats on cinders and spoil, the other on grassland sites, waysides, wasteland and on lawns. In lawns it survives mowing by developing a low growth habit, missing the mower blades. On grazed sites this is less successful and it is not a common weed in pasture.

How and when to water your lawn

When and how much water should you give your  lawn during the prevailing hot weather when the thermometer is tipping almost 30 degrees centigrade.

We are receiving a lot of calls about the very same subject, mostly about newly renovated lawns with seed or turf.  One big question is how long to water your lawn for.

Should you water your lawns or not when it is this hot?  Turf grasses are tough old things and so long as you  have healthy and desirable turf grasses in your lawns then they should  be capable of coping with the extremes of drought.

Lawn Care Products Online

The days of visiting the High Street to do your shopping these days when you can get it all delivered to your front door is all the rage these days and lawn care products are no exception to this fact.

The Lawn Company Group of Companies, provide Advice, Service and Supply, the supply part being their online Lawn Shop where you can purchase professional fertilisers for example similiar to the ones that the service team apply to clients lawns.

No more need for the 3 in one product from the DIY Sheds or Garden Centres where you have four products, usually a moss killer, a weed killer and a fertiliser all in one bag. 

Red Thread Disease a threat to summer lawns

Red Thread Disease in you lawn's season is now upon us. Warm and wet environmental conditions are ideal for an outbreak of this unsightly lawn disease.  

It is fairly easy to prevent an outbreak of this lawn disease.  The majority of lawns were fertilised in the spring months and now the benefit of that feed is wearing off.  Add into the equation that some of the nutrients in the turf grass plants end up in the mower box as grass clippings and you can soon build up a picture as to why the grass may become weak and susceptible to an attack of Red Thread Disease.

Throw your lawn a lifeline

If your lawn is looking a little poorly at the start of the traditional summer months, throw it a life-line and try and save it before it is too late....

The summer soils are warm and moist, ideal opportunity for getting some new grasses into the lawns. It is getting a little late to renovate and repair your lawn now but there is still time to get it sorted and put to bed of the winter months.

A Skateboard Park for Lawn Mowers!

A huge disused cement works is to be transformed into a £104million eco resort which will resemble the Shire from the Lord of the Rings.

Plans for the 118-acre site will see 600 eco-friendly holiday pods created, with grass roofs that bear a striking resemblance to the green home of the Hobbits.

The disused Shoreham Cement Works, on the edge of the Sussex Downs near Shoreham, West Sussex, is set to become one of the most environmentally friendly holiday resorts in the country.

Controlling Leatherjackets in your lawns

There are a few lawn pests that will eat away at your grass roots thus destroying a lawn and one of them is Leatherjackets - the larvae of the Daddy Long Legs or Crane Fly to be technically correct.

Last summer, the adults were flying around and being batted by the Cat but their work as adults is now done! 

They would have laid their numerous eggs in your nice green sward and right now they will be hatching into hungry larvae ready to start attacking your nice new grass roots now. 

Never ever under estimate the damage that a troop of Leatherjacket larvae can inflict on a grass area. They will strip a lawn in no time as the other image in this post demonstrates!

Call your Dad to get your lawn mown

Millions of British adults lack the practical skills to undertake basic jobs around the house - relying on ageing parents to help, a new study has revealed.

Researchers have discovered a generational shift in our ability to carry out practical tasks such as mowing the lawn, hanging pictures and washing the car.

The study revealed that just under half of British adults aged between 25 and 40 still regularly rely on their parents to tackle everyday tasks they feel are simply beyond them.

Catch a Mole with a Beagle

Beagle is a British company that provides an easy, effective solution to unwanted moles in your lawns.

Moles to be honest are great mammals but a bit of a pain in the rear when they mess up your lawn with their mounds of soil on the surface.

Their pest control products are designed and manufactured exclusively in the UK to the highest quality standards. They should last you a life-time, and should be a pleasure to use.

Further innovative, high quality garden products are in development, each of which will make a real difference to the way you maintain your garden.

Solving Lawn Dry Patches

Dry Patch is a little known problem of turf in amateur lawn circles but one that has an incredible impact in ensuring consistent colour, growth, nutrient status, run of the ball and most of all visual impact and continuity of grass cover.

We have seen a lot of lawn and turf areas turning brown or mottled following a couple of dry weeks back end of May, but this problem has nothing to do with lack of rain or potential drought. 

The rain today, as this is typed, will really help but more work is required to alleviate the problem going forward.

Man dies in Lawn Mower accident

A man has died after a ride-on lawnmower he was using overturned into a farmhouse pond and trapped him underneath.

The man, who has been named locally as 62-year-old Richard Clements, is believed to have been mowing grass outside his property in Wattisham, Suffolk, when the machine toppled down a bank into the water and trapped him.

His family managed to drag him from the pond and made frantic efforts to save him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.