Archives for November 2012

Preparation for anything is often a key to a great start. I am a big breakfast person. I believe that if you can load your body up with all the great nutrients that it needs from first thing, you can move through the day a lot easier than if you have one piece of toast. And with turf and lawns I believe that giving the grass the best possible start to life at your place means that it will grow up healthy and strong.

Lawns and Turf don’t need a good Breakfast as such, but they do need a big feed and watering at the beginning of their life at our place. Healthy soils and nutrients are a great way to ensure your investment in your home will be protected. At Coastal Turf we offer our professional installation team to come to your place and turn your house into a home, or we also offer a How To guide for the DIY’s out there. By offering this free service we can ensure that the grass looks as good at your place as it does at our farms. And the difference from brown and dusty to green is just amazing. And by following our little step by step guide on how to get the best out of your lawn, you can ensure that it has the best start and continues to flourish at your place. So like having a healthy breakfast, your lawn will get the best start to its life and be green all year round.

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Giving grass the best start means that it stays greener all year

I get into work on  a Monday morning and think “ummm.What am I going to Blog about today?” And today was pretty easy after all the rain last weekend. Erosion control is a big part of what turf con do. Industrially, By putting grass down on sloping areas, the turf grass can keep all the soil underfoot, so to speak. It can be used on road sides and open areas for councils and main roads to stop all their wonderful soil washing away or being blown away from the wind. Keep the dirt in the ground.

And at home on a more personal level, having turf down at your house means that your house stays cleaner. Whether you have dogs or children or husbands or friends, someone always walks dirt in onto your clean floors. And have you noticed that it only seems to happen just after you have cleaned the floors. Not before, but just afterwards. I had a lovely Grandmother call me this morning who has decided to help buy her daughter turf for Christmas because she is sick of watching her grandchildren during the day for her daughter while she is at work and having to sweep the floors all day to keep the sandy dirt out. Another beautiful lady called last week saying she is so sick of washing her youngest two all the time because they just love playing on the dirt. Now dirt is great for kids, but not so much for Grown ups who have to clean up after them.  When my husband installed her grass, both she and the kids cried. The kids because they had lost their dirt pile, and the mother was so overcome with emotion about how different the whole yard looked and felt. We saw her at the local shop a few days later, and everyone was smiling. The kids love playing on soft grass, it seems it much nicer on their little feet they told me; and Their mother loves not having to scrub them clean when they have to go and pick up her older children from work. And the soil stays in the ground and the grass is happy with the nutrients as well. So everyone is happy.

Green Grass; It makes people smile whenever its seen.

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Check out the

The green couch area has held together really well with no slipping or erosion where as the the paddock clumping grass has let water flow through and caused big channels in the soil, meaning we lost the soil that was once there. Thank you Green Couch!

Many of you have seen my rants about how good the grass is around my kids cubby house. It is awesome. And with little care from us which is even better. I do think it is just wonderful. I love that they can run out there in bare feet and everyone knows that they don’t have to worry about nasty little weeds coming up through and biting their feet. Although there has been a rise in ants, but we are getting on to that. It seems though  you can’t own echidnas, so we’ll start with chickens and then go further later.

Anyway I thought with all the chatting about the cubby I should show you our Kids little Home away from Home and its super soft and fluffy Palmetto under neath. And the dam in the back ground is a lovely. Reminds us that it really is a farm. I often wish that I could run away from work and sit on the Palmetto Hill and relax instead of working… Oh to be a kid again.

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The cubby at the farm
Note the picnic table for lunch times.

One of the great things about your kids going to school is that they learn how to read. And also not so good. As parents you can no longer spell out words or write notes you don’t want kids to know. Like your Christmas list.

But they can recognise numbers and words. Awesome. So this morning on our rushed run around for school, Hollie and Riley stop dead on the lawn and then grab Riley’s iPad to take a photo. I try to rush them into the car and then on the way past I had to stop and laugh with them.

“look Mum. Even the grass thinks it Number 1,” says Hollie. When we mowed the lawn, we scalped the top of the grass, and when the grass has grown back after the fantastic rain on the weekend, it has grown back with the shape of 1 on it. Very cool. Just had to share it with you

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Palmetto No. 1

Now is the time to start all those exciting preparation for Christmas. I LOVE Christmas. it rocks. All the food, presents, food, family, friends, food, and of course water fights, and food. I love to cook for all our family and friends who come out for the day. We put on a big spread across our lawn and party and eat all day. Its great. I am really looking forward to having our Christmas Day water fight on our bindi free Blue Couch and Palmetto lawn. Our new Blue is coming along beautifully and Palmetto hill under the cubby is soft and bouncy. Our hill of Green Couch has bounced back after the gorgeous rain. It is perfectly understandable why councils use Couches for thier sidewalk areas. There is little to no fuss over the lawn and a bit of water and it flashes back wonderfully GREEN.

Part of our Christmas tradition is to make all our family friends some wonderful cookies for Christmas. Hollie and I started early this year as a practice. we came up with Greening Australia and Turfman!

Cute as

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Coastal Turf and Turfman – Greening Australia one cookie at a time

Cookie Turfman

Greening Australia

Well as I think I may have spoken quickly about before, our lives have been consumed in a fantastic way with my brothers wedding. It was gorgeous and so wonderful to see Rob and Rikki so very happy. Also very very happy were my children who got dressed up and showed off all afternoon. It was a wonderful family experience. All the generations of the Turf family joined in and we all had a great time with out grass….

Just a few happy snaps..

Hollie