Archives for December 2012

Merry Christmas from my family to yours. I thought I would add the all the pictures so that you could see not only the perfect smiling picture of us but also the fighting crazy trying to wrestle in a photo ones. I think all families are the same. You love each other but sometimes you don’t want to be that close, especially when your mum makes you.

May Santa be good to you, and time be fun and exciting. Have a wonderful summer break and call us if you need grass. We are only having Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Years Day off this year. So chat soon.
Sare and all the a Coastal Turf family

Ps. We are standing on my Mum and Dads Queensland Blue Couch. So soft and green and fluffy at the moment. Love it

Well here are the before during and after shots of the Bogangar school oval installation.
It was a great day that could not have been the success that it was without the marvellous volunteers who came to help install the turf. The school captains for this year and next year both turned up and gave 110%. I am so very proud to firstly have my kids at this school and also to have had the opportunity to work with such wonderful people. Thanks everyone who turned up and helped and all those who helped in e background.

Chat soon
Sare

Check out this link to the Tweed Coast Weekly’s littl epiece on it all.

http://www.tweedcoastweekly.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2013/01/coast-remembers-margaret/

Here are the before pictures of the Bogangar Public School oval. Can’t wait to see the transformation!

The amazing transformation from dirt to green green grass is fantastic!

Here is Coastal Turf’s crew getting Bogangar Public Schools turf cut and ready to go

Over the past year Bogangar Public School P&C have been slaving hard to flatten their school oval. Now the process has finally began and is nearly finished. Chicka’s Excavator work was amazing with Kings Machinery Hire to make the ground flat, square and playable. And I must say that my kids LOVED watching the trucks and Bobcats and Excavators work at school. Now its Coastal Turf’s turn to cut the grass. So today I have brought in everyone that I could think of to cut 2200sqm of couch, so we can supply the school at a very reduced cost. And the P&C is organizing volunteers to work with us tomorrow to install all the grass to make it look GREEN and GREAT! I am super excited, and I know that the kids at Bogangar Public School are even more excited. And I hope that the team of wonderful Volunteers are just as excited to come and help out. I even hear that the School is putting on a free sausage sizzle for those who help. Faantastic! that means I wont even have to make lunch. Even the kids are coming to help install. Will definitely put photos up tomorrow!

Chat soon

Off to cut turf

Sare

Harvesting away

What Hollie and I will look like after we have harvested (just me harvesting) and installed (both of us installing) the Grass at Bogangar Public School

What the grass will look like

Have you ever wondered how our grass gets from growing in our paddocks to being your lawn in the afternoon?

I thought you may like to have a look at our harvester. Usually Macca or I would be standing on the side of the harvester to cut your new lawn out of our paddocks and bring them over to your house on pallets.

Many an hour we have stood folding and stacking turf for the enjoyment of you to install it at your place or your friends whom you have bribed (or threatened as was the case of a job I went to last week) and especially for our much loved landscapers and Turf maintenance men. I really enjoy being up there and working outside. The air is sometimes dusty, but its always challenging, and I don’t have to join the Gym.

So its not on a shelf, it really is in the ground nice and fresh and growing just for you

Coastal Turf’s harvester John Commens driving.

Chat soon

Sare

Summer is definitely here. I’m hot. And I’m sure you are too. And the pallet of turf you just had delivered is hot as well. Grass is a living organism and requires sunlight and WATER to grow. So when it sits on a pallet for too long before you install it, the turf slab can become damaged. The inside of a stacked turf pallet can reach upwards of 45 degrees C.  I had a thermometer in one the other day, and even I was surprised. Grass will become stressed in a pallet and like us when we get stressed grass raises its temperature. And the hottest part of the pallet is right in the middle. So order your turf for the day you want to install it. And get it down as quickly as possible. And as you install your turf, and you are drinking heaps and heaps of water, make sure that you give your new turf heaps and heaps of water as well. Make the ground feel all squishy (the best word I could think of) underfoot. And like drinking your water will help you hydrate and cool down and be able to continue to install more turf, by watering your newly installed grass you will help your Grass establish cool down and grow into your wonderful lawn.

And for the next 10 days make sure that you keep up the watering. In the middle of the day is the best time to water and at dusk. In the middle of the day the newly laid turf will lose the most water from its leaves and the ground. So watering your turf then will mean that it losses less. And at dusk the plant is almost relaxing after a hard day of growing so give it a lovely night cap to help it on its way. And use the watering and installation guide on the back of our invoices for the different amounts of water for the different types of grasses.

Chat soon

Sare

Keep your Lawn looking as green and lush as this with a little water.

There’s nothing more invigorating to make you feel more ALIVE than to cut turf on a windy hot day. The air sweeps up all the dirt around you and it makes conversations impossible (unless you want a mouth full of dirt). But at the end you definitely have a feeling of accomplishment. And the laughs between all of us on the farm is awesome. I was listening to the radio the other day and it seems that there is a new commission being starting federally to make sure that men and women are being treated the same in the work place. I think that the Coastal Turf Turf Farm is definitely treating all of us the same. Man. Women. Child. Dog. We all work really hard to get the best grass at the best price to your door. Whether it is Macca or Dad who are Old Farts (their words not mine) or Me (not an old fart. A youngish woman. Ok middle age I guess) or Barbara in the office (she would rather I didn’t say) we all work really hard to get the job done right. The First time and the most enjoyable way possible. I really enjoy working with them all because we can have fun even when we are working. And I think this has rubbed off on my kids work ethic, Hollie joined in too the other day. Well with the dirty face part. I’m not sure who is dirtier…..

Sarah and Hollie