A new customer at Wheeler Heights, Northern Beaches of Sydney with a Tif Tuf Couch lawn in need of some help. According to the customer, this new Tif Tuf Couch lawn was laid 2-3 years ago. Last summer the couch lawn got hammered by Army Worm, and with the passing winter has been badly…
Views overlooking Pittwater from top of the hill at Palm Beach whilst we work on a Nara Zoysia lawn for a new client. Nara Zoysia is a new one for us, we don’t see much of the Zoysia varieties but what we see we like. The texture of Zoysia grasses is quite…
Lovely rain last week is just what the Lawn Doctor ordered. Heavy but infrequent watering is our mantra… Heavy but infrequent waterings promote deep root growth making your warm season grasses drought tolerant. In terms of a watering program for your warm season grasses (including zoysia, couch, kikuyu and buffalo) do as follows: heavy…
Greener Lawn looking its best here in Cremorne (Lower North Shore of Sydney). We have been looking after this Buffalo Green Lawn for around 18 months and it is ticking all the boxes. Random Fact: Did you know that around 75% of all (greener lawn) turf sold is Buffalo Grass? The Aussie…
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This Clareville, Northern Beaches, Buffalo Lawn is coming out of winter after being infested with White Root Lobelia. White Root Lobelia weed can be treated successfully in all grasses except Buffalo with broadleaf weed herbicides containing Dicamba. However, for Buffalo best to use herbicides containing Bromoxynil (not Dicamba) such as…
This happens every Spring! Homeowners get to work on their weeds with Glyphosate aka Roundup and the results are nothing short of terrible. This is why we don’t use Roundup at all in our battle against weeds in the lawn. We only use Lawn Herbicides registered for use in…
We have just started work on this new lawn here in Beecroft. It is a Buffalo Lawn (one of the Australian varieties like Sir Walter or Sapphire or Kings Pride), however, it is full of Rye Grass. Rye Grass has been oversowed in the past for whatever reason. We…
Lots of winter weeds to get rid of here in this Queensland Blue Couch Lawn. However, within a couple of weeks this will be a nice queensland blue couch lawn.
You won’t believe this, but I had a client years ago ringing me in a panic saying, “Gerry, you gotta come around straight away, I got all these weeds in my (Buffalo) lawn.” I was naturally perplexed because the lawn had been serviced 4 weeks earlier, so the next day I called around to this…