Yearly Archive: 2019

Jar Test Illustration

Soil Jar Test for Superintendent

Soil is comprised of soil particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms, all of which are important to the overall health of the soil and your lawn that grows in it. There are three primary soil particles, Sand, Silt and Clay and different ratios of these make up the soils texture. Texture relates to …

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Coring

Shallow Renovation (Buffalo & Cool Season)

This process is intended to improve your lawns finish, remove some of the brown layer making it less spongy, lowering the crown of the plants stem back closer to the soil, allowing a season of fresh lush growth.  It’s something that must be carried out during its growing season. The dormancy period is quite stressful …

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Couch Renovation

Deep Renovation (Couch, Kikuyu & Zoysia)

This process is intended to improve your lawns finish, remove as much of the brown layer as possible making it less spongy, lowering the crown of the plants stem back close to the soil, allowing a season of fresh lush growth.  It’s something that must be carried out during its growing season in the warmer …

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Preventative Disease Management

If your anything like me in winter during the dormancy of my lawn, I’m “toey” and a Roman sandal for my lawn to finally wake out of dormancy.  This year just gone, not so much excited, I knew I was in for a ride having a couple of diseases appear badly during dormancy (the worst …

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