Archives for October 2011

Well you would have been a very happy little bunny if you had laid turf this week! All this rain will be doing wonders for the new growth for the grass at installed at your place. My Husband installed turf on Wednesday on the Tweed Coast. Now it poured with rain here and he came home a little bit cranky, but really happy about not having to water the turf in. So although the rain is no good for the people laying the turf, it is awesome for the Turf Installed.

So don’t let the rain hold you back from your turf installation jobs. It will stop that mud getting into your house and the grass will take off so much faster! And if you don’t want your installers (or family and friends who you have talked into installing the turf with you) getting cranky, get us in to install for you. I can cope with a cranky husband, I am used to it now. Or it hopefully it will stop raining soon. And then we can all be happy – you with your new installed turf, and me with a happy husband.

Have a lovely weekend – hopefully in the sun

Sare  🙂

Coastal Mix? Is that a typo I hear you say. No! Its a variety of grass that my Dad and Brother the turf fanatics that they are, developed 5 years ago now. About the time that Charming Hollie was born. I did suggest that that call it Hollie Grass but they thought that was weird, (and of course that meant for every grandchild Dad had he would have to make up another grass symbiotic. Slightly tricky). So anyway getting back onto point…

Coastal Mix is the symbiotic combination of Queensland Blue couch and Carpet Grass. Dad and Rob noticed that the two grasses would often try to grow in each others paddocks and had even turned up at home in Dads back yard growing together really happily. Rob happened to be doing his Masters in Agronomy at the time so he came up with the analogy of the Symbiotic Relationship (as in the two rely on each other to grow). Now I don’t know about your back yard, but in most people I know, they’re backyard has lots of sunny parts and lots of shady parts, great for people not so great for one specific grass. So the Queensland Blue Couch is really soft underfoot and loves the sun, and is not very thirsty; and the Carpet grass is really hardy, enjoys the shade and drinks about the same as a Queensland Blue Couch. So a perfect match. Where the Queensland blue Couch wont grow because of the shade the Carpet will and vise versa. And its the perfect kids grass. Always soft underfoot, but strong enough to have kids on it 12 hours a day. Its great.

My yard has many combinations in it from turf offcuts and experiments, but Coastal Mix is my favorite. Its pretty, easy to take care of (little maintenance due to its drought tolerance) and always green! Almost like Hollie; the only exception is that Hollie isn’t green, unless she is jealous.

Chat Soon

Sare

Hollie on Coastal Mix

Gras of the Week
Palmetto

Don’t you just hate it when you have typed and types and you thought that it sounded awesome and you were gonna save but was too in the zne of tyoing to do so and then the power goes off and you loose everything! AHHHHHH!
I had written this great bit on Palmetto and its gone!

Now this no reflection of Palmetto itself. It is a great grass that unilke other buffaloes is green all winter, takes little to no watering (except from the rain of course), and hardly ever needs to be mown. It really is a lovely grass, shame that the person writing it is computer illiterate ….

Well the Grass of the Week is Carpet Grass. Its a kids and Dog haven!

Carpet Grass is like the name suggests grows outwards like a carpet across your lawn; making one of its big pluses that there is less mowing. It grows out instead of up. And due to this tendency the grass is really hardy! Its strong form character means that dogs can run back and forward across your lawn and not put a dent in.

Even better is that is grows really well in the shade! Its thick leaves means that the grass will grow in filtered sunlight, like the light under shade sails at Preschools, kindergartens, Day Cares and Schools. It has also been described as the least allergenic grass for kids (meaning that it will be highly unlikely that kids will be allergic or get itchy from Carpet Grass). So it is definitely child friendly.

Now Coastal Turf sells GREEN grass, so please don’t confuse our Carpet Grass for the horrrid red tropical carpet grass from up north. Our Carpet Grass is green soft, hardy and GREEN and will definitely be a bonus to your backyard!

Chat Soon
Sare