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Gardening Club Talks on Lawn Care

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.

If your local Gardenng Club is seeking a speaker on the subjects of lawn and their care, then Mike is your man!  The 2022 Gardening Club Speaker season has commenced and Mike has been visiting Clubs in and around Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire providing expert lawn care advice to their Members. Contact Mike here

'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.

The Science of looking after a Lawn

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April Lawn Care Tips

Time to get your lawn in tip top condition for those warmer summer months!

After a lovely sunny and warm end to March, April has commenced with an icy blast and temperatures and wind chill in the minus figures.

By now, you should have mown your lawn and applied some Soluble Iron to retard any winter moss.

Control Lawn Moss

Moss control and then Moss removal in lawns is a practice normally performed in the spring and autumn. 

The weather is still against us but if it cheers up and warms up then you could commence with some winter moss control.

If the grass plants activity has thinned or weakened over the past 12 months, now is the time to start Moss control and eradication and some mechanical operations just ahead of over seeding the lawn to turn the tide on the moss and re populate with existing or new grasses whilst the soil is still warm. Moss is traditionally controlled and killed using Soluble Iron.

How to measure your lawn

Knowing the precise area of your lawn will allow you to determine how much lawn fertiliser and other lawn treatment products to purchase, making sure that if you apply the correct amount of lawn treatment product in the first place, you can be pretty sure of the end result.

Applying lawn treatment products to your lawn is a fairly calibrated process.  Getting the correct amount of product or concentrate onto the lawn per each single square metre multiplied by the total area will give you great results.  Not knowing the size of your lawn will lead to problems, waste money and cost valuable time and effort.

Why does my lawn get Moss in it?

It is common for lawns, especially those suffering as a result of a Winter shade line or north facing to get a Moss invasion visible in the late Winter through to the Spring months.

The moss type that is in your lawn will be mostly Cushion Moss; often referred to as Winter Moss, easily controlled by an application of Lawn Sand which has Sulphate of Iron as a key ingredient.

March Lawn Care Tips

The Spring Equinox 2022 in the Northern Hemisphere will be at 15:33 on Sunday, 20th March which is the official 1st day of Spring.

March 1st is often heralded to to the 1st day of Spring and the Daffodils are really showing a burst of vibrant yellow blooms across the Country.

With storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin safely behind us, your thoughts may be more leaning towards repairing your fence or shed rather than your lawn!

Help your lawn out of the winter doldrums

After quite a mild and dry January your lawn will soon be screaming out for a tonic to lift it out of the winter doldrums.

The start of the RBS Six Nations Rugby is always a good timely focus of remembering your lawn does exist and could do with some TLC at this time of the year.  The rugby pitch at Murrayfield in Scotland suffers from colder growing conditions than say The Millenium Stadium in Wales and the Grounds Staff at both stadium will be hoping for warmer climes to establish the playing surface and aid recovery after a gruelling match. 

February Lawn Care Tips

We would be lying if we said that February was a big lawn care month!

With storms forecast with some rain and cold thrown in for good measure, your turf grasses will be crying out for some TLC.

1. Here are a few jobs to get on with this month:

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January Lawn Care Tips

Welcome to the New Year!  With the C19 Virus still getting more active with it's new alleged strain, you may be spending more time at home than you had hoped this month until the much awaited vaccine can be rolled out.

January, still deep in Winter, is not an ideal gardening month and lawns figure less in the tasks that could be completed in the garden.

A lot of what you could do to your lawn really depends on ground conditions, including water logging, snow cover, first to a depth.

December Lawn Care Advice

Brrrrr - these were the words muttered from cold lips at the start of this week when it was minus 4 with some light snow and currently a positive feels like 12 degrees.  Crazy weather.

In the month of December, there are still a lot of jobs that you can complete on your lawn and garden to get it ready for winter:

Are Earthworms spoling your Lawn?

The worms do a splendid job in the soil just beneath the grass crown, but it is a pity that their soil cast deposits pose such a problem for lawn owners.

CastClear is an organic non-pesticide control solution available to domestic lawn owners to deter the worms from casting.   There are only five types of casting worms found in UK lawns. 

Other European countries also suffer worm worm casts on turf.  The problem can be solved  CastClear is the solution to lawn soil casts.

Boo! Happy Halloween!

What does Halloween means?  Nothing to do with Lawn Care at all!   Perhaps scary Pumpkins will help ward of lawn worm casts?

 

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2021 will occur on Sunday, October 31. The tradition originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

November Lawn Care Advice

As we enter November after a rather dry October where this month we saw 15 days days with rainfall out of a potential 31 days and 68mm of rain there were multi days to get out into the garden to tend and care for the lawn.  Last year we had twice as much rain at 131mm rain in 24 days.

In the month of November there are still a lot of jobs that you can complete on your lawn and garden to get it ready for winter:

Trim the lawn edges

Clear the fallen leaves & twigs

Mow bi-weekly