Lawn Aeration and Aerating The Lawn – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

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How To Kill Winter Grass – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

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Kurnell Curse: What Weed Is That? – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

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Buffalo Lawn Care Tips – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

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Couch Lawn Care – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

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Kikuyu Lawn Care – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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 lawn care approaches – Lawn Green Lawn Care

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…

Weed and Feed Lawn Care – Lawn Care Tips – The Heads Up on Lawn Watering – Lawn Green Lawn Care

Lawn Care Tips: So you want to save money on your water bill? Well, here’s the heads up on watering your Lawn. I bet most people are paying too much for their water! You are too, if you are not using it properly! Some people make the mistake of watering their lawns every day for…

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Lawn Problems and Solutions for Home Owners and Landscapers

There are many issues with Lawn and Turf grasses that will present themselves as major concerns to the home owner, builders, landscapers and garden maintenance contractors. Broadly these issues (lawn problems) will include lawn insect damage, drought stress damage, damage caused by fungal disease and damage (unwittingly) caused by the person caring for the lawn….