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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.
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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.
Lawn Watering Guide: Best Time To Water Lawn
Watering remains a necessary process in lawn maintenance, and owners should identify the best time to water their lawn.
Lawn Care Tips: How to Get Your Lawn Ready for Summer
We all know that that having a lush, green patch of grass makes your backyard look amazing.
How to Get Rid of Weeds in Your Lawn
We hate weeds… and we know you do too. Weeds can quickly spread and destroy your beautiful lawn that you have painstakingly cared for over months…
Lawn Care 101: Our Top Tips on How to Care for Your Lawn
We get it… your lawn is your pride and joy. It’s the centrepiece of your backyard, and ensuring it’s healthy, green and lush all year round is high…
Fungicides
Lawn fungus is a common occurrence in most home lawns especially during periods of heat and rainfall. We don’t believe that the first action is...
How to lay a new lawn
Well the best advice we've always been given is to lay your lawn green side up… but it is a little more complicated than that. Step 1Soil...
Tips for greener grass
We all love a how to list, but you’re really going to love this one.Before we jump into making it green we need to understand why it went yellow in...
Insecticides
Insecticides can be used on your lawn to prevent unwanted damage by lawn grubs and caterpillars. Some lawn grubs may be relatively harmless, but...
African Black Beetle
African Black Beetle is a beetle (Coleoptera family) that originated from southern Africa. So pretty self-explanatory really. As a member of the...
Armyworms
Scientific Name Spodoptera spp.What the damage looks like Skeletons, that’s the easiest way to describe the way your lawn looks after Lawn Armyworm...