Growing a great lawn

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

Hoping to tap into the wealth of Myswag knowledge and ask for your tips and tricks for an awesome lawn. My front lawn is okay but not awesome but my back yard is crap with our dogs on it all the time.

How often should I mow, what fertiliser do you reccomend, how do you get great edges around path ways, any bindy sprays that work without killing half the lawn at the same time etc

Thanks in advance

[speewa158]

1 question   Where are you  Then we can go from there 

[speewa158]

Send me your address , stock the fridge , & l come to consult . 

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

Send me your address , stock the fridge , & l come to consult . 

Hi mate we're on the Gold Coast. I can definitely stock my fridge if you wanted to do an on site consult.

[Aaron Schubert]

Hey mate,

Fu Manchu offers some awesome advice - read his posts. This is one of the threads - http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=24357

Aaron

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

Great read. Thank you

[D4D]

Don't grow one, get it 'installed'

[Markoutback]

Can't get better than that looks great year round

[GUEY]

I heard the best tip the other day.
Mow your back yard first, then front and then the nature strip.
Reason being all weed seeds blow down the road and mostly get caught in the nature strip. If you mow this first you carry all the seeds through the rest of the yard.

[speewa158]

Don't grow one, get it 'installed'





That's Cheating   To easily done  & no Mower Man         

[scarps]

Don't grow one, get it 'installed'

hey D4D, that slide and grass looks like it's never been used?  :-)

[D4D]

hey D4D, that slide and grass looks like it's never been used?  :-)

That's the idea

[speewa158]

A lot of that goes on 

[Cruiser 105Tvan]

You trying to put Jeepers out a business?

[D4D]

Nah, still got over 100m of nature strip for 'Jim' to do...

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

Don't grow one, get it 'installed'

I would love to do that to our backyard.

[Malcolm Tugless]

Green concrete.










And decorative swans made from old tyres.

[speewa158]

lions & eagles in concrete on the fence   

[Variflex]

I do like the astro turf look, we had a quote to install it around our pool however a cost of $15k put me off,
Anywho back to the lawn,
Aerate it first, then put a good topsoil down then a good regular watering and you'll have a lush green lawn, all this is assuming you get regular sun

[D4D]

I do like the astro turf look, we had a quote to install it around our pool however a cost of $15k put me off

Yeah it is expensive but it is awesome, it has made that area great for kids.

[muzza01]

When I lived down south I used to dress the lawn twice a year with dynamic lifter 1st then Shelleys number 13 about two weeks later. Regular water is the key.

My lawn up here doesn't get any fertiliser, it just gets plenty of water (rain)

[Jenko67]

I have just ripped out half of my back lawn, some kind of feral grass had taken over the sir Walter and was killing it...., going to poison and wait for it to warm up and lay some sir Walter again...

[Vitara_JaycoSwift_Outback]

When I lived down south I used to dress the lawn twice a year with dynamic lifter 1st then Shelleys number 13 about two weeks later. Regular water is the key.

My lawn up here doesn't get any fertiliser, it just gets plenty of water (rain)

Beautiful

[Jeepers Creepers]

I do like the astro turf look,

Me too, I use it as carpet throughout the work van, I've even got an astro turf dash matt.
More durable than carpet.

[grafy82]

I do like the astro turf look, we had a quote to install it around our pool however a cost of $15k put me off,
Anywho back to the lawn,
Aerate it first, then put a good topsoil down then a good regular watering and you'll have a lush green lawn, all this is assuming you get regular sun

Astro turf, yeah, if you want the yard to have that Macca's playground look and feel. And good luck hosing dog turds down into it.