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

Autumn Lawn Care Tips

'It is great to see an article in The Daily Mail about looking after your lawn as it is rare that our UK daily newspapers recognise that a lawn is part of a garden!

The author of the article is Nigel Colborn, a British TV presenter and gardening expert/writer.

'This is the season for making a new lawn. Soils are still warm and autumn weather is usually perfect for speedy germination.

The seedlings have plenty of time to develop a green cover before winter. Turf laid now will also settle down quickly.

So if you fancy a new lawn, or would like more grass in your garden, this is the moment. It’s a simple procedure and results are rapid.

New York park commissions Goats to trim grass

New York City is welcoming a new breed of essential workers. 

Goats have been enlisted to clear weeds at Stuyvesant Cove Park. In the wake of the pandemic, staffing and budget cuts have left the 2-acre park unmaintained. Moreover, as New York residents convened in parks as a safe space during the outbreak, they left their garbage and trampled plant life. 

What are the legal implications of selling a home with Japanese knotweed?

Japanese knotweed is a fast-growing, highly invasive plant with deep roots, known as rhizomes, which can be a real nuisance for homeowners. 

Although knotweed dies back during the winter months, its thick rhizomes can lie dormant several metres underground, making it notoriously difficult to detect - and remove. 

If you find the plant present at or even near your property, it could reduce the value of your home and make it difficult to sell.

Bank Holiday Lawn Care

It's been a wet and windy week and certainly not conducive to gardening with a wet Friday start to the Bank Holiday Weekend and hopefully some improving weather but not really hot.

If you have taken advantage of the 'Eat out to Help Out', you may need to do some gardening to get rid of some additional pounds and what better way than to mow the lawn in a couple of directions and trim those lawn edges.

Helping your Lawn Recover from Drought Stress

Now we are receiving some great late summer rain, the lawns will quickly be recovering and returning to their more normal green colour after the drought months.

In The Lawn Shop, there are plenty of lawn care treatment products to help your lawn recover from the drought.

Now is the time to apply a lawn fertiliser and you have a choice of a granular or water soluble products.

Tackling the Lawn Care Puzzle

The great thing about being into lawns is that you are always in demand and undertaking Lawn Consultancy contracts forms a big part of our business concept.

Having said this, to acquire a degree in turf culture takes years of study and examinations and also years of 'on the job training' too which supplements the theory, the final degree examinations being some 21 hours long. And you thought it was just 'grass'...

Lawn Quencher™ Tablets - The Solution to Lawn Hydration

Lawn Quencher™ Tablets - The Solution to Lawn Hydration.  Lawn Quencher - Wetting Agent Tablet

Your lawn may look a little soggy currently with the recent heavy rainfall but spare a thought of the localised dry patches on the surface once the gravitational water pulls through. Dry crusty patches where the grass is simply not growing despite the rain. Puzzling. Put a gardening knife into the dry patchy area and cut out a 2 cm cube to inspect. You will note that the soil is still really dry and smells musty.

Making Weed Control Liquid Treatments Visible

If you are heading out into the garden to get to grips with some weeds that have appeared in the hard standing or on the lawn, then use Indigo Garden Spray Dye to help you see where you have sprayed in your garden sprayer.

It is a short term highly visible spray indicator dye that you mix with your spray solution in the sprayer and then allows you to quickly see where you have or have not sprayed. Search for it on Amazon or buy direct from The Lawn Shop for £9.99 for a 80 ml pack sufficient to 'dye' up to 80 litres of spray solution.  (plus P&P)

Available from The Lawn Shop and Amazon - Search for Indigo Garden Spray Dye

Rain heralds arrival of Worm Casts

After any rain received, the Earthworms will be sending their annoying little soil casts up onto the surface of your lawns as the root zone gets a little soggy for them to move about in.

The more rain we get = the more worm casts as the soil water to air ratio reduces to favour the rain. Earthworms need to breathe and thus clean their burrows.

CastClear is the solution to lawn worm casts as the worms do not like the taste of this barrier product when applied to the lawn and are encouraged to stay deeper in the soil profile and not cast on the surface. Repeat after 20 days at 1/3rd the initial dose rate. The worms are unharmed by this nutrient based product.

You can get some online from The Lawn Shop & Amazon

August Lawn Care Advice

As August arrives with us, a warm week ahead is predicted for the South East at least.  In July, there were 13 days with some rain and 22.8mm of rainfall locally to our office and we always state that any rainfall in July is always welcome.

August can be a hard month for the garden and lawn as you spend a lot of time spent on watering the garden and trying to keep it all going and looking great with maybe a family break thrown in for good measure.

Mr Weed becomes President of The RHS

Keith Weed has been appointed president of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Mr Weed's appointment is a triumph for those who believe in what officially is called ‘nominative determinism’, which technically means ‘name-driven outcome’ — the theory that people gravitate towards areas of work or behaviour that reflect their name.

Of course he has. Especially when you hear that his father’s name was Weed and his mother’s name was Hedges.

Managing Editor is a RHS Lawn and Turf Speaker & Judge

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Our Managing Editor, Mike Seaton, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Groundsmanship and has had an extensive career in the turf and lawn industry.

'Being a lawn specialist is a bit like being a Doctor at a party. The lawn is after all the carpet of the room outside and the lawn is often the largest part of the garden and the most neglected by many.'  

Mike has been included in the Royal Horticultural Society Speaker and Judge online listings to give talks about lawns or judge lawns and turf at gardening shows.

Nematodes - a simple and effective way to control multi garden pests

Forget about the once complicated and daunting world of pest control; the modern domestic gardener uses the sophisticated, yet simple, biological method of simply watering on nematodes.

Nematodes are micro-organisms which occur naturally in the soil where they hunt down and attack pests, with each nematode species having its own specific prey, meaning that they will harm their prey, and only their prey.  BASF has the largest specialist nematode production facility in the EU – and the only one in Britain - growing trillions of beneficial nematodes for use in their Nemasys range of pest controls.

Nematodes are micro-organisms which occur naturally in the soil where they hunt down and attack pests, with each nematode species having its own specific prey, meaning that they will harm their prey, and only their prey.  BASF has the largest specialist nematode production facility in the EU – and the only one in Britain - growing trillions of beneficial nematodes for use in their Nemasys range of pest controls.

Nematodes are micro-organisms which occur naturally in the soil where they hunt down and attack pests, with each nematode species having its own specific prey, meaning that they will harm their prey, and only their prey.  BASF has the largest specialist nematode production facility in the EU – and the only one in Britain - growing trillions of beneficial nematodes for use in their Nemasys range of pest controls.

Nematodes are micro-organisms which occur naturally in the soil where they hunt down and attack pests, with each nematode species having its own specific prey, meaning that they will harm their prey, and only their prey.  BASF has the largest specialist nematode production facility in the EU – and the only one in Britain - growing trillions of beneficial nematodes for use in their Nemasys range of pest controls.

Lawn care products made easy by The Lawn Shop Team

The hard working Team at The Lawn Shop have a variety of lawn care products to help your lawn cope with drought recovery and keep it tip top for the rest of the summer months.

You should have fertilised your lawn twice by now so if you have not, think about making a fertiliser application straight away now this hot and dry weather spell has subsides.  Your lawn will love you for it! The South East of the United Kingdom still has not had sufficient rainfall but every little helps.

You should have fertilised your lawn twice by now so if you have not, think about making a fertiliser application straight away now this hot and dry weather spell has subsides.  Your lawn will love you for it! The South East of the United Kingdom still has not had sufficient rainfall but every little helps.

You should have fertilised your lawn twice by now so if you have not, think about making a fertiliser application straight away now this hot and dry weather spell has subsides.  Your lawn will love you for it! The South East of the United Kingdom still has not had sufficient rainfall but every little helps.

July Lawn Care Advice

July for most of us began on the 4th because this was when the Covid-19 restrictions were relaxed meaning that we could stay over night in others property including guest houses and hotels and also go to the Pub.  Cheers!

The start of July has seen a fair amount of rain to date,  enough to help the lawns get out of the drought stress of April and May with 15 days of rainfall in June.