Archives for October 2016

Coastal Turf is part of the National Turf body whom are running a Little Bash competition. If your lawn is bought from Coastal Turf and wins the competition, we will give you an extra prize of a Coastal Turf Fertilser pack to ensure the health of your new Cricket Pitch. Check out the competition and enter once or 20 times. Good Luck. HowZ That!

The summer of cricket is about to get underway and Lawnspiration through their face book page are giving you the chance to WIN TICKETS FOR YOU & 3 FRIENDS to a Twenty20 Big Bash game in your closest capital city!! We have FIVE lots of tickets to give away!

How do you win? Show Lawnspiration your own unique backyard cricket pitch, share it on our page and our panel of backyard wicket experts will pick the winner!

Entries are now open but stay tuned to the Lawnspiration for tips to help your backyard wicket pass the famous key test! And Coastal Turf can help with your home personal tips!

Check out this FaceBook page for more info on the comp!(Copy and paste into your browsers, sorry either my cleverness on the computer or the limitations of the engine is not letting me put a link. Sorry. I’ll ask my 14 year old for more help! )

https://www.facebook.com/lawnspiration

Lets Bash away!

Chat soon

Sare

One of the few sports I am still able to slightly compete with my kids is backyard cricket. Every Christmas our family gets tother and we have a really silly game. Its all about having a hit and bowling a few( while we knock back a few ). And of course the wheelie bin is the wickets. Its a family tradition that we all love, and we have passed on to our kids, and friends who have come over for Christmas fun. And now is the time to start preparing your Perfect Pitch for these Summer games.

I think I love Cricket with my kids more than any other sport because it is truely non contact. At no stage should I be pushed or nudged to the ground. Just have balls thrown at me. And now I have my glasses (and sometimes a few glasses) I am a pretty good shot. My bowling leaves something to be desired, but my underarm is right up there.

Well I’mm off to do a few rain dances to help our lawn and lawn paddocks get ready to be your Summer Cricket Backyard. So watch the Big Bash on TV, and have a little Bash in your yard.

Chat soon

Sare

This is Josh. Josh is a very hard working young man who loves to install Coastal Turf lawns for people. I promise he does NOT lean upon his shovel all day. He actually installed the beautiful lawn at this Metrion home in Hundred Hills, Murwillumbah. 

Josh looks like he is in deep concentration (yep this is his concentrating face.) because he is ensuring that the soil levels are at the right height to be flush with the driveway and footpath; that the soil is full of essential nutrients; and that the area is fully prepared with the Turfman secrets to ensure the lawn stays as beautiful in years to come as it is today. Josh has a lot of pressure on him to perform.

Usually on the farm we place a lot of pressure on Mick and John to grow the most amazing looking turf, and on Paul to deliver the turf in its freshest healthiest happiest form. But Josh tells me that their pressure and skills is nothing compared to his own.

Not only did the removal of Josh and his shovel from the photo make the house look amazing, but Josh’s concentrated efforts to turn this soil of brown to stunning Green lush lawn for these new home owners makes the photo look fantastic!

So if you want none of the pressure (and according to Josh, don’t have the elaborate skill level of his amazing self) to preform to Josh’s level, then leave all the pressure and time (and back ache that Josh tells me he has) to Josh and the Turfman crew to install your new lawn.

Chat soon

Sare

PS. Josh also wanted me to point out that he is also an expert on the aftercare and service of your lawn, to ensure its stunning growth over the years. 😉

You know how some mornings it’s 9am and you feel like you have already accomplished so much. And other mornings you look up at the clock, and think ” what! It can’t be 9am already! What have I even done yet?”

Well today was one of those where has the time gone mornings where I couldn’t find anyone’s lunch boxes to put lunch in,  the kids missed the bus, and I still haven’t checked my emails or done my hair by 8.20am. And the kids have to be at school which is at least on a good day half an hour away, by 8.45am.  And that little panic button in my head started to go off, and the crazy mother came out in me.  You know the one that yells because their son only has one sock and one shoe on ( not necessarily on the same foot) and says they are totally ready, their daughters hair is sticking straight up, and they are throwing random things around to be able to find the keys which they know were around around here somewhere. And god forbid they find their phone without ringing it.

Well that was me this morning. The slightly insane one.  And then my obviously dressed and ready to go son ( in his one sock on his left and one shoe on his right) said to me ” Don’t worry mum. In Qld it’s only 7.20am. We have heaps of time.”

Now at this point, for those who don’t know, I just want to interject that our farm, where we live and go crazy, but mostly grow beautiful turf lawn grasses, is in NSW. Specificaly in Cabarita Beach. It’s beautiful. But in NSW we have daylight savings at the moment. We are an hour ahead of QLD.

My sons  calmness sometimes drives me absolutely crazy. And this morning , probably because I was already in crazy land, I just laughed instead of screaming. I thought I had done enough  of that already. And it did help release the tension and find the other shoe and sock!

It did make me think that it is quite handy Coastal Turf being in NSW and on daylight savings time. We can help service all the deliveries early in NSW, and then still be able to deliver nice and early as well to Qld. A win win situation. So lots of people can have the 7.30am delivery that they are hoping for. I love getting the turf down early. The sense of accomplishment after installing a new lawn by 9am is much better than not finding the other shoe and sock by 9am. (by the way we did make it to school. Just as the bell rang, and with both shoes and hair mostly done)

Coastal Turf runs on NSW time, so it does mean for all you Queenslanders that our hours of a little earlier than you. We are on the farm and in the office from 6.30am – 4pm Monday to Friday, and 6.30am – 11am on Saturday.

Chat son

Sare