Archives for April 2017

Well QLDers you guys are getting another long weekend. Its ok, cause us hard working Turf farms down in NSW are more than happy to help you make a long weekend a great weekend! May I suggest, this long weekend a little plan …

Saturday – Kill your weeds. Spread your soil. Level the ground and create a fantastic soil area of your new turf to live in. Call us at Coastal Turf to arrange to have Gorgeous Green Couch, Beautiful Blue Couch or Coastal Mix delivered to your home on Monday.

Sunday –  Sit down relax. Breathe. Congrastulate youself on a great preparation job. Take some selfies of you and your amazing soil. Before shots always make you feel good at the end. Call your Friends and Family and ask them for a “BBQ” at your place tomorrow. Go buy some sausages and maybe Beer.

 

Monday-  Sleep in. Casually make your morning Coffee and smile proudly to yourself that your preparation is all done and your new couch lawn will be there today. Get ready for the transformation. Greet your “guest” and if you haven’t already told them, let them know there is no food or Beer until they have helped you install your new lawn. Don’t forget to smile. Greet The Coastal Turf delivery person with a smile and let him know where you would like the pallets of turf placed. He will use his skid steer loader to move them as close as possible to where you would like to install your new lawn. Get stuck into it with your family and friends and install your new lawn. Take th after shot and be super happy.

Monday night- reflect on how awesome you are and how great your lawn and home look now. Smile and take another selfie!

 

Hope this plan is a goer for you. And we will chat on Saturday to arrange your new couch lawn.

 

Chat soon

Sare

Most people think if our lawns as just being that bit of green out the front that we have to mow.

But what really is your lawn? How essential is it to your day to day life? What does your lawn do for you?

To me, my lawn when my kids were smaller was a life saver! It was the only place I could send my kids to when they were driving me crazy. Our lovely little grassed area had a slide and a trampoline (or a jumpoline as my kids called it) and a lovely area where they could run around and play, kick a ball (or each other sometimes) and entice neighbours kids over to play as well.

Our lawn was the place where angry cross words, turned into giggles and laughter. Something about being outside just made the kids happier. More adventurous. And being able to play with no shoes on the grass, I believe, was really important to their tactile learning. Feeling the different textures under their feet.

And on the days when the play got a little full on, like heads clashes when they both went of the ball, the blood was safely absorbed by my lawn. And because it was covered with lovely green tick lush grass, their cuts and grazes where always so much cleaner.

 

Lawns really are the perfect playing area for our kids. And it does so much more.

 

So with another long weekend coming up (I mean really who wants to work on Monday?) why not do your family a favour and install some green cushioning, fantastic lawn out the front, and the back, and enjoy the giggles again from your family.

 

Chat soon

Sare

 

Its nearly Chocolate time! I really do love Easter. It is that amazing time of year when you are encouraged to eat chocolate before 9am!

It does mean that it is a short week to get your ordering in for a new beautiful Coastal Turf Lawn. Imagine this beauty in front of your home. Or better still in your back yard with you sitting back relaxing. 

Coastal Turf is delivering Thursday afternoon so you can have your wonderful family and friends come over on Friday and help you install you beautiful new lawn and then have the next 3 days to enjoy  the gorgeous green.

And by installing your new lawn yourself, can can enjoy as many Easter Chocolate eggs as you want with no guilt. And it also makes a great place to hide Easter eggs in.

Chat soon

Sare

Like everyone in the Tweed Shire, we are extremely wet that the moment. Last week we had water over my hips. Not that I am tall, but it was still a very lot of water.

Usually I encourage people to come out to the farm and walk across the different paddocks with their shoes off to feel what their new lawn could will feel like. And smell what their new lawn’s aroma could be freshly mowed. And gaze at what the beauty of their new lawn could be.

 

This week I would not encourage anyone to come out to the farm. Rather call into JH Williams at Chinderah Industrial estate and check out our display plots there. We have worked with the block guys to have samples of the Qld Blue, Palmetto Buffalo, Wintergreen Couch, Shademaster Buffalo and Empire Zoysia areas 9sqm wide so you can have a chance to walk bare foot across the grasses and choose which is best for your home. The Block boys have all the info on the different grasses, and quick access to give me a call to meet you up there this week. I am happy to walk to lawns and help you choose.

Head down to 24 Ozone Street, Chinderah NSW or give myself a call on 0431 014 951 or Blake at the yard on 02 6671 2200. The yard is open all weekend, so you can easily access all the different lawns at your leisure. And take your mobile so you can either give us a call or go to our website and check out the turf details.

 

Have a great weekend, and give us a call for the best Lawn on the Coast.

Chat soon

Sare

What an exciting week we have had here at Coastal Turf. And I have learnt so very much.

I have learned that rain can bring joy as well as hell.

Its not often that my kids can canoe across the farm. Our paddocks were saturated from Wednesday night to Saturday morning with water that was higher than my hips. Not that I’m very tall (I have one son taller than me already. But I am 169cm tall.) but that was a lot of water across the farm. Now to the three of us grown ups at the farm, my Father, Turfman and I, this was a mini hell of watching our farm go underhand under with more water than we had seen away from the ocean.  And it brought lots of joy to our kids who got to swim and play across the farm. They have always wanted a pool at home. Unfortunately we had 300sqm of Green couch which was harvested on pallets that went under the water.

The pallets are roughly the 1.3m tall. And on Thursday morning we couldn’t see the pallets at all. By Friday the water had gone down enough for us to see the pallets and the kids had found the canoe on a neighbours paddock and brought it back so they could go across the farm. (I have also learned  that I am a really really bad at canoeing.I believe our canoe is too small and only for kids size. Even though my son is bigger than me and has coordination and stuff that I may not have. But I think its the size of the boat)

This 300sqm of Green couch was given to the Tweed Shire Council to assist and provide turf to people affect by the flood and in need of bank stabilisation and to stop any more erosion control.

Coastal Turf sends our love to all the people effected by the waters of 29th March. It was an event that I do not believe will be forgotten easily or quickly. As much fun as my kids had in the flood waters of the farm, I know it was not a happy event by any stretch of the imagination.

On Monday the paddocks were back to normal-ish. I learned that I have patience. Especially when on Sunday I finally drank that nice bottle of Red Wine that I rescued from the flood waters. I also learned that Red wine is delicious, but it can lead to sore heads. Most of the water had receded Monday and we could walk across most of the farm. I really enjoyed this much more than swimming. I am not the type of person who enjoys unknown things touching my feet. And there was a lot of that on Friday and Saturday. As well as the occasional snake trying to swim its was out of the flood waters. Thank goodness we always take a dog with us everywhere. Even to swim across the paddock.

Over the last 5 days I have learnt so much about our family and how well we come together in a crisis; How well we know the farm like the back of our hands when we can drive trucks and tractors out without being able to see the roads; and how in times of Bad we can see some good.

 

Chat soon to all the amazing people in our area who through so much we have done so much.

And we can still help you get the best lawn in your street before Easter.

Sare