Lawn Care
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Lawn Care
Find all the information you need to keep your newly installed lawn healthy and lush.
Take a look through our lawn care information below where we’ve compiled helpful advice and tips to help you care for your new lawn. Read more about mowing, watering, fertilising or pest and disease. Lorn Turf is here to help with all your turf and delivery requirements. Give us a call for your next job big or small. These videos have some great information which covers everything you need to know to keep your new lawn in top shape. Once you’ve installed your new lawn, care needs to be taken to ensure a healthy and lush lawn. Read our guide below for all you need to know about fertilisation, watering, mowing and more.
Mowing
Remember Mower Maintenance Tips to maintaining your mower
- Maintain sharp blades.
- Clean your mower after use.
- Maintain regular servicing.
- Makes sure your air filter does not become blocked with grass.
- Ensure your fuel is FRESH.
Watering
- Curled up leaf blades in the evening (wilting blades during the highest heat of midday sun is not a good indicator – always check the condition of the leaves in the evening).
- Blue-grey colour instead of green.
- Footprints or lawn mower tire tracks remain visible long after being made.
Fertilising
- Key time – Ideally, we recommend fertilising your lawn three times a year – spring, summer and autumn, but if you only do it once a year, then make it spring.
- After laying new turf – Before laying new turf use Lawn Pride Under Turf Starter Fertiliser which fuels growth and clings onto moisture. It lasts for about three months and then you can fertilise again.
- Key environmental events such as droughts – Forcing your lawn to grow with fertiliser during drought and heat doesn’t work well for your lawn’s health. Your lawn looks its best when it is healthy and not forced to grow when it is struggling to stay green. Instead, we recommend you use a Lawn Conditioner – which aids moisture and nutrient retention and lets your lawn put its energy into water absorption, root growth and maintaining its health.
- How often to re-apply – Re-applying fertiliser to your lawn depends on the type of fertiliser you have used – whether it be slow-release granular which works to feed your lawn over three months or liquid fertiliser which is a fast acting feed and therefore needs more applications, up to four times a year.
Pest and disease
When disease or pests attacks your lawn, controlling them can be a daunting task unless you know how to correctly identify them and understand the causes and prevention behind them. Fortunately, our lawn care guides are here to help you identify the pest or disease affecting your lawn and the appropriate product to use to combat these issues. A heathy lawn is one that is less susceptible to these pests and diseases so following one of our specialised lawn care programs you can help prevent most lawn diseases/pests.
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