Lawn Care - Can LAWN GREEN Supply its Lawn Care Products to Home Owners?

In the red coloured text below is the copy of an email I received on Friday 13/2/09 from a lady that lives 2 hours drive from Sydney:

Dear Gerry, I live at Eleebana, Lake Macquarie, so out of your range, but I am interested in your fertiliser. Is it possible that I can get some in this area ? (Newcastle/Lake Macquarie). We have a Sir Walter buffalo lawn, which has been down about 5 years, and over the last couple of days I have noticed huge brown patches appear.We are checking for army grub -- will put out a wet bag tonight -- but I wonder if it might also be a fungal disease?

The main point of this Blog Post is that we are NOT allowed to sell these Professional Lawn Care products to home owners as these products are not registered for Home Owner use.

This may sound silly, however, there is a lot to understand about the use, storage and handling of these fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides. Additionally, these products tend to come in large sizes such as 20-25 kilogram bags for the different fertiliser products, 10-20 litre containers for the different herbicide products, and 15 kilogram containers for the different insecticides - and as such the cost and size per product is way to much for the small suburban house lawn!!

By law, we are prohibited to sell these products to home owners.

The only way Home Owners can access similar products is via Bunnings stores or other hardware store or Garden Nurseries and Landscape Supply Centres.

For more general information go to www.LawnGreen.com.au/lawn_green_s_faq_frequently_asked_questions

Finally Some Much needed Rain at last for Sydney Lawns

Finally, we have some much needed rain for Sydney Lawns and Gardens.

As you most probably know we recommend Infrequent Heavy Soaking Rain.

You can find out more at our website pages below:
www.LawnGreen.com.au/beat_the_water_restrictions
www.LawnGreen.com.au/awards_announcements
www.LawnGreen.com.au/lawn_green_s_faq_frequently_asked_questions

Lawn Problems at Schools and Pre-Schools

We get calls from Schools and Pre-Schools requesting quotations and advice for Lawn Care.

In extreme cases, school children are not permitted to play on the school ovals and grassed playing areas due to the severe weed problem in the turfed and grassed areas.

The two (2) main reasons for the children not being allowed to play on the grassed areas are:

• The weeds including Khaki Weed have dangerous burrs, and when children fall over on to the grass they hurt themselves
• The main weeds in the grassed areas include clover and dandelions. These weeds attract a lot of bees, and many children are allergic to bee stings

Lawn Green is able to provide ongoing Lawn Care maintaining these playing fields and ovals with its Dry Lawn Care method.

For more information please go to http://www.lawngreen.com.au/dry_lawn_care_method , and while you are there register for our Free Report on "The 5 Secrets To A Great Looking Lawn".

Lawn Care - Some Customers Can Give You A Scare, and There is Lots Of Lawn Insect Damage about!

Hell, Some Customers Can Give You A Scare!

Yesterday I got a call from a customer at Bayview (a beautiful suburb, right on the water at Pittwater and Palm Beach, Sydney). Anyway, the phone call gave me a bit of a fright, as the customer said we had ruined her lawn. After taking a deep breath, and asking lots of questions, I decided to meet with her at 7 o'clock the next day.

I got there, met the customer and assessed the lawn (in this case a Buffalo lawn, or as the Americans call it, St Augustine grass).

Luckily (for me) and sure enough, the damaged lawn areas were a result of a combination of the recent heat waves we have experienced combined with preceding damage caused by Lawn Foraging/Feeding Insects such as curl grub and Black Beetle. The damaged areas presented themselves as classic Lawn Damage caused by these insects.

It took me a while to explain all this to the customer. We also explained that the Lawn Damage was not consistent with any spraying of lawn weeds. When we first started any work on this lady's lawn we did spray for some post-emergent weeds. That was 6 months ago, and since then we have kept the pre-emergent weeds at bay with our pro-active Dry Lawn Care approach. The current lawn damage has emerged as a result of heat stress and insect damage. It is just unfortunate the customer's lawn was subject to an insect attack.

So what can we say about all this? Not much, except to say that we all the work carried out by Lawn Green is done with minimal spraying of herbicides...in fact, using our Dry Lawn Care method we can ensure the customer's lawn will be best looked after using our 2-in-1 Weed and Feed Lawn Care product.

For details on the Dry Lawn Care approach please go to www.LawnGreen.com.au/dry_lawn_care_method and to www.LawnGreen.com.au/lawn_green_lawn_care_and_granular_insect_control_treatment for a good common sense approach to Lawn Care.

Finally, we did apply granular insecticide and some fertiliser to all the customer's lawn areas to ensure a speedy lawn recovery!