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Here you’ll find hints, tips and tricks on how to make your lawns and gardens the envy of your neighbourhood. Built from our Ag Scientists’ collective 200 years of experience, it’s all explained in laymen’s terms. Thankfully.
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While we continue to add more tips from the Pros to this section – and the rest of the content on The Lawn Shed site -we realise you may not find all the answers you need yet. (Especially if you have a unique or particularly weird problem.)
But fortunately, thanks to our team’s vast experience in professional turf, there’s not much we haven’t seen, diagnosed and cured.
So if you can’t find the answers you need in our problem solvers or articles, just contact us at [email protected] with your questions and please include photos which will help us, help you.
Our friendly support team, headed up by the big-brained Ian Thompson (who has a Master of Agriculture in Turf Management) will soon have your lawns and gardens in tip-top condition.
How To Prevent Weeds In Your Lawn with a pre emergent herbicide
Having weeds in your lawn is an unsightly affair, they compete for nutrients and water and they are very very good at it, some even grow faster than...
How To Deal With A Flooded Lawn
The weather throws many curve balls at our gardens, one year it’s drought, the next it’s excessive rainfall resulting in floods. It can be Difficult...
How to identify and control lawn grubs
As lawn lovers, there is nothing worse than seeing imperfection in your beautifully manicured lawn. Weeds are certainly annoying, but it’s lawn...
How To Choose A Liquid Lawn Fertiliser
Fertilisers are a key component of any lawn care regime to keep your lawn that beautiful deep green, which not only turns your neighbours’ heads but...
How To Apply Liquid Lawn Fertilisers
Fertilisers are a key component of any lawn care regime to keep your lawn that beautiful deep green, which not only turns your neighbours’ heads but...
How To Apply Granular Lawn Fertilisers
Fertiliser is a given for most lawns. After all, we need to repair it from those family cricket games and keep up with the Jones’s when it comes to...
How Often Should You Fertilise Your Lawn?
At The Lawn Shed, we are lawn lovers. We believe that the garden forms the frame, but the lawn is the masterpiece within. Do you know what frame is...
Lawn Starter Fertiliser vs Maintenance Fertiliser: What’s the Difference?
If you just moved to a new property or want to enhance your yard, you may be interested in growing grass or starting a garden. Using fertiliser is...
What’s Killing My Grass? 5 Common Lawn Grubs That You Should Be Aware Of
Nothing makes a positive impression on the people seeing your home for the first time than a thick green lawn. Not only does a perfect yard enhance...
La Nina – what is it, and what does it mean for your lawn?
All this recent rain is good right? Not always, find out more in this blog.