Green Life Turf | Residential Lawns Blog

Sydney and many other parts of the country saw an abundance of rain a week or so back leaving our lawns drenched and over watered. It was no exception on our Green Life Turf farm where our team were up at dawn’s crack to start dealing with the problem.

The last few weeks of (mostly) sunshine should have dried most lawns out a little by now, but we may be in for more rain and as the sun continues to get weaker and weaker, our lawns are in for another brutal cold season. With predictions of a lot more rainfall to come this winter, there won’t be many opportunities to do much about it.

So what do we recommend on our farm for turf lovers in our Sydney climate? First some background:

There’s no doubt about it, winter brings problems for even the most beautiful lawns. You want your yard to show off the beautiful lush, green lawns of summer, but the cold weather combined with shorter daylight hours means your warm-season grass will go dormant in winter and begin to lose its colour.

The problem doesn’t end there. As your grass turns shades lighter, it attracts less sunlight and soil temperatures continue to decline, further contributing to your lawn’s state of hibernation.

But while your lawn will naturally take on a shade of brown - and the colder your climate, the more colour it will lose - and its growth will slow down, that doesn’t mean your lawn needs to look patchy and be unhealthy. In fact, it doesn’t even mean you have to live with brown lawn in winter!

Here are our tips to creating the healthiest and best looking lawns to be the envy of all your neighbours!

Befores & Afters are great for everyone: home owners, councils, businesses and tradies alike!

Anyone who's done renovation of any sort - in their home, on their outdoor landscape - knows how awesome before and after pictures can be. 

From nostalgia to satisfaction, for reviewing the work or simply for the enjoyment of seeing your efforts take shape in picture form, there are many reasons to take and safekeep all your before and after shots. 

So I've put together a set of simple tips to help you take and make use out of your before and after re-landscaping pictures - without having to be an professional photographer!