Many years ago I planted a new lawn for the verge of the new property I had just moved into. The area was only small, a part with high sun, a part with medium shade, and a part with high shade. I would have liked to have planted a Zoysia lawn here at the time, however common sense and

Scarifying or vertimowing lawns is undertaken with a specialised machine to remove a build-up of thatch from a lawn. Over time many lawns, especially those grown in full sun conditions, can begin to have an excess of thatch which is made up of both old and dead stolons, as well as many

Scalped lawns occur when we cut a lawn too low, thus exposing the brown thatch layer which resides underneath the upper green leaf material of the lawn. Well that’s the essence of what a scalped lawn entails, but the matter is much more in depth as to what is really going on and why

Bare patches can appear in our lawns for many different reasons. Whatever the cause may be we now want to repair these bare or dead patches in our lawns to bring them back to full health again. In this article I’ll go through a number of reasons why a lawn may have bare patches and then

Top dressing lawns is one of those old perhaps misconceived practices from years gone by, which many people adhered to and undertook often out of ignorance. There are legitimate reasons to top dress lawns which will add to the health of the lawn or otherwise help to repair a lawn. So

There are a number of different ways to restore uneven lawn surfaces, and each different method will depend on just how uneven the lawn surface is, and how much work we want to put into levelling out our uneven lawns. Overall though, it is not a difficult process, no matter the

Brown burnt patches on lawns are a regular part of owning both a dog and a lawn for many of us. It can be unsightly and a nuisance for those of us who love our lawns and gardens, so what then can be done to help alleviate or lessen the problem of dog urine burning lawns?Why There Is A

There are many reasons why lawns can lose colour and turn a more awful shade of yellow or brown or straw colour, rather than the green delight we all cherish. These things can happen at any time of the year and finding a cause and a solution can be tricky for most homeowners, even the

Lawn coring is the process of aerating our lawns with a specially designed machine built for the purpose. Lawn coring is most usually done on compacted lawn soils so as to allow more oxygen into the root zone of the turf for improved ongoing lawn health. Lawn coring can also be

Many if not most of us in Australia have poor quality soils growing underneath our lawns, and seeing how our lawn derive all their nutrients and health from the soil, this too means that the health of our lawns over their entire lives, can be negatively impacted. We may as a result

The roots of our lawns don’t only need dirt and water to live, they also need oxygen in the soil as well. When and if our lawn soil or any other garden soil is deprived of too much oxygen then so too does the health of our lawns or our garden plants, and when this occurs we need to

Almost all healthy lawns that are well looked after will develop thatch over time. The amount of thatch will vary with each different lawn, the lawn type which is being grown, and other environmental factors such as shade levels or direct sunlight levels, how much fertiliser is applied