Aeration and Aerating a Lawn area allows air flow through the soil by removing soil plugs from the ground using an aerator or coring machine. Aeration helps reduce soil compaction and thatch. Aeration allows for more efficient movement of water and fertiliser to the grass roots. A lawn can be aerated any time provided the soil…
Why Should We Worry about Lawn Coring and Lawn Aeration? Soils with a high percentage of clay become very hard and compacted. Also, sports and playing fields become compacted and worn out with intense regular use (high traffic). This makes it difficult for water, fertilizer, air and grass roots to penetrate into the soil. Also,…
Why bother with Lawn Aeration anyway? Lawn and turf aeration is a very useful way to bring your turf grass back to life. If your grassed areas are suffering as a result of traffic and constant use, then they will benefit from having all the soil de-compacted using lawn aeration equipment. Lawn aeration is a…
How To Kill Winter Grass: Wintergrass, or winter grass, as the name suggests, is a weed that comes about in the Winter. Germination of winter grass seeds generally occurs in Autumn (or Fall as Autumn is referred to in North America), and the Wintergrass plant becomes well established with the help of regular rainfall. For…
Kurnell Curse, also known as Pennywort, is the Common Name for this weed in Australia. Its Botanical Name is Hydrocotyle bonariensis, and it is a weed commonly found in sandy soils along coastal areas. Kurnell Curse was first noticed around the coast of Venezuela on an island called Bonaria. This Australian weed is found in…
Buffalo Lawn Care Tips – How to look after your Buffalo turf in Australia… Buffalo Turf Grass (also known as St Augustine grass in North America) is a warm season turf grass made very popular in Australia with the relatively new soft leaf Buffalo varieties such as Shademaster (in the 1980s) and Sir Walter Buffalo…
Couch Lawn Care: Looking after your Couch / Bermuda Grass Lawn Just before I get into the topic, I am writing this article from an Australian perspective and need to clarify some terminology. Broadly, this article will refer to Warm Season grasses, and amongst these grasses we will reference the following Turf Grasses (including there…
In this video I have filmed a customer’s front lawn and nature strip. The nature strip lawn is couch grass (otherwise known as Bermuda Grass in America). It is typical of Couch to lose its green colour in winter, and more so after a couple of heavy frosts. The colour does bounce back to its…
Kikuyu Lawn Care – Kikuyu and Couch (also known as Bermuda grass in the North American continent) turf grasses are commonly used in playing fields and sports field situations. Homeowners are unaware of the reasons behind this and we will give a simple and detailed explanation. We need to understand there are two (2) broad…
Lawn Care Tips – different approaches and fertilizers for looking after your lawn… Over the years, different approaches have been developed for looking after lawns and turf grasses. Some of these approaches are varied and influenced by people who are agenda driven by the “environmental” and “green” movement, or on the other hand, some approaches…