30/08/2026
Lawn tips & tricks 💚
Now is the perfect time to start giving your lawn some extra TLC coming into the warmer months ☀️
Our lawn is all couch, grown from seed that we bought in bulk from our local Nutrien. In November 2024 the lawn was top dressed with loam and levelled. This involved scalping the lawn right back to dirt, spreading fertiliser and then applying the loam. See the photos at the end of the carousel for a before & after.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve started dropping the blades on the push mower each week, gradually scalping the lawn. This helps remove some of the older growth and thatch and encourages fresh new growth heading into spring 🌱
- Fertilise. We recently spread urea over the lawn to give it a boost coming out of winter.
- Keep the edges neat & tidy, we use roundup.
- Mow regularly as growth picks up. I push mow all of our lawn 😊 Regular mowing throughout the warmer months helps encourage a thicker neater lawn.
- Apply Cellaprint (Acelepryn GR) on the lawn, a granular lawn insecticide every six months. This is to prevent lawn grubs.
- Stay on top of weeds. Use dicamba to keep clover and other broadleaf weeds under control.
- Aerate compacted areas particularly high traffic spots. This helps water, oxygen and nutrients get down into the soil and roots.
- Water, water, water! Deep consistent watering is so important, particularly once those hot dry days arrive.
Getting your lawn healthy, well fed and growing strongly through spring gives it a much better chance of handling our hot summers. It’s hard work and definitely doesn’t happen overnight but you’ve just got to be persistent and keep at it. It will pay off 😍
