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!