Again I have been a boring person and I have been flicking through the information from all over the world about the benefits of natural lawns. But I think my kids are happier about me using my spare time to do this rather than forcing them to clean their rooms Or worse yet , according to my boys, making them try on school clothes to see what fits.

I stumbled across a Californian Research that proved people who live and work in areas with a view of lawns recovered from stress more quickly. I said this to my family, who looked at me with a  funny smile. My Husband calls me a bit of a OCD person. That everything has to be just so, and that I like things to be organised. It probably comes from always having to be organised for our Autistic son. But our family thinks I’m a stressed. So when I said tp them that green lush lawns creates ease in people, my youngest son (who happens to have a little bit of a smart arse mouth) said to me ” Wow. Imagine how stressed you would be if you didn’t have the green grass at the farm to look at.” I think he was being sarcastic. But he may be right.

I know with my kids when they have a green area to run around on they preform better at school, and they are just generally nicer people. I believe this is why Australian schools have large natural green grass areas. the green spaces help the kids to think more clearly and cope with stress. I’m sure part of it is the mental side, where you see green and feel happy, and a large part is because it is an area where the kids can run, jump, play kick, tackle, and get out all the nervous energy. This then allows (my kids at least) the ability to sit slightly til in the classroom and listen.

In many cases too the ability to go out and nurture your green space can make you feel better. i know from experience that seeing your lawn go from all seed heads and long and straggly to the beautiful fresh mown look and smell is a wonderful experience. The smell is great. That fresh mowed lawn feeling is one that brings happiness. And if your my husband, our fresh mowing lawn is then accompanied by a freshly opened beer. Which is a lovely therapy in its own.

So for your kids and your partner’s health, its really important to have a beautiful lawn at your place. And really, if the rest of your family is happy, its makes your life so much less stressful! Happy Life. A green lush healthy lawn makes a Happy Healthy you!

And to take a large chuck of your stress out of your life, or just to have a beautiful lawn at your place to sit on, next to, let the kids play on and admire, Get your lawn from Coastal Turf with our recommendation to get the right lawn variety at your place. Then get either the Turfman or Brent from Gold Coast Landscaping to install your lawn and possibly an irrigation system. And they can take all the stress out by coming back and maintaining your lawn for you. So the Green is there forever.

Get in contact with us now to arrange a stress-less new lawn

My kids call me boring. I call it dedication. Because at night I go through websites on my iPad and look at Lawns. I look at what other exciting new developments are occurring on our field. Be it new varieties, or new research  into disease and pest management or, the research into the benefits of lawns and turf.

This week I came across a great little website in America called Lawn and Landscape. which was really fun. It had great pictures and also had some great research. I really enjoyed it. The best part I came across was there list to give customers about the benefits of a good lawn. It seems America does a lot of research into why their lawns are so good. I found a few other exciting ones, but my kids made me get off the net because I was slowing down Netflix. Hahaha. The joke was on them. It was not because I was online that there was a slow download, it was because I had changed the password. But I had to fane confusion and concern when they said it wasn’t working. Then I made them play soccer with me on the lawn, which I managed to loose. Next time we play something I can win at.

Anyway, back to grass. So from my couple of weeks of having all the internet for myself (I will tell them the code when school goes back cause I know they need it for homework) I have quantified most of what we instinctively already knew where the benefits of having a lovely lawn. This week I am going to concentrate on the environmental benefits.

Environmental

We all know from Primary school that plants convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. But did you know that your lawn is super amazing at it. Your average sized healthy lawn will make enough oxygen for a family of four.

And your healthy green happy lawn will also store as much as 136kg of Carbon per year.

So when you are driving to the shop to buy a nice cool beverage to sit down on your lovely lawn, take a big deep breath in knowing you are helping man kind.

Your lawn is also trapping dust and dirt that can fly up into the atmosphere. Your lawn and turf grass areas also prevent erosion control and stops a lot on pollution problems in our water ways. Your green healthy lawn is helping our planet.

At this time of year I bet you have your air- conditioning going. In Summer, a healthy green lawn will be “…at least 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and 14 degrees cooler than bare soil.”(Credit Lawn and Landscape. ) So this means if the outside of your home is cooler, you don’t have to work you air-condition so hard to cool down your home. Having a nice green grass butted up against your home will keep you cool, and it seems calmer.

So you can look at your lawn this week as major contributor to society. It is cleaner our air, and providing you with a a cooler home. It is stopping bad things getting in our waterways, and storing all the carbon it can. All just for you.

Thats why it is important to install the right turf in your yard. This will keep it healthy happy and green, and this intern will keep you healthy happy and green.

Chat with us about the best lawn for your place to start your healthier life. 

Only have a small yard? Don”t get a lot of light? But still really want the green soft area to look at and walk on with your bare feet?

Then I have the right grass for your yard! Palmetto Buffalo!

Small Yard?

Just because you only have a small are, does not mean you should miss out on having the Aussie dream of a grass area to love. Being a small area, you won’t really want to be out there mowing and watering all the time. The Palmetto buffalo requires a third of the mowing and watering of any other buffalo!

Low Light?

And just because you have neighbours who shade your yard from the harsh heat of the sun, or tress that give you all the privacy that you need, does not mean you have to miss our on the outside carpet! The Palmetto buffalo only needs 3 hours of direct sunlight per day. And that doesn’t have to be all at once. You can have bit on the morning, and a bit in the afternoon.

Want a lush fluffy lawn to walk on?

Of course you do! Why else do you install turf? Because you want the soft cushion of thick leaves underfoot, comforting your feet as you do boring things like hand out the washing, or exciting things like kicking the ball around.Palmetto Buffalo has a thick lush leaf that grows tight knot creating a beautiful green carpet for you and your family to enjoy. And because of the thick lush leaves, you are less likely to get air born weeds like bindis in your lawn.

Want proof that Palmetto Buffalo is perfect for you?

Then check out this video that Tony the Turfman created to show how to make a small yard beautiful with Palmetto buffalo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtnsdAYDoQ

Contact us Now t get this happening at your place

Sare

Lions! And Tigers! And Bears! And even worse; Lawn Grubs!!!! Oh My!

There are some of us who believe that Lawn grubs are just as scary as Lions, Tigers, and Bears. And in Australia, I do believe that there is more risk of be being attacked (alright. Probably more than likely the word should be Effected.)  by Lawn Grubs. So maybe they are scarier!!!!

Ahhhh! Lawns grubs crawling through the depths of your lawn. Using their lots of creepy legs to shuffle their way through the stems and leaves, while they feast upon your well look after green lush outside carpet! How dare they! The thought of yucky little caterpillar looking evil things crawling around makes my skin crawl! I don’t know about you, but the thought of them in my lawn make me shudder. Yuck!

Are you getting dead patches in your lawn at the moment? Are you seeing brown tips forming on your lawn, and you have been looking after it really well so their is no reason for it to happen? You could have ….. (pause for dramatic effect please) LAWN GRUBS! Oh My!

This is what the nasty little blighters look like as they hatch out of their eggs and come down into your lawn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkixtqlpzzU

If you have seen this happen at your place, or have seen the signs, get in contact with us and we will put you in contact with someone to elevate the problem. We know the relevant professions to make sure it goes away now! And save you in the future!

Sare!

Get Ready Gold Coast! The Commonwealth Games are coming and everyone will be coming to play in our backyard. So lets make our Backyard the Greenest and most beautiful anyone who has gone to a Commonwealth Games has ever seen.

Like all the athletes getting ready for the Commonwealth games, trying and getting Fit, lets all get our lawns into premium shape before the games. Lets show the rest of the Commonwealth how Green we are. Lets get ready to Preform! With so many people coming into town, with them renting our homes with Air BNB, or just driving past , looking at our homes, lets show them how wonderful our Gold Coast is.

The Green and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Whether you feel you want a whole new lawn installed, or you feel that your lawn just needs a little tender loving care to create a beautiful showcase for your home, Coastal Turf can help you to achieve a beautiful green showcase for your home. Lets make the Gold Coast, the Green and Gold Coast. Whats more Aussie than Green and Gold!!!

Lets show how the GC (No lets call it now the GCC- Green and Gold Coast) is not a slave to the concrete jungle. We are a Lean, Mean and Green! We are strong and cool because our Green areas create cooling fir our homes, and fresh beautiful clean air for us to breathe. And it stimulates our happiness receptors on our brain because our GGC is so visually stimulating that all will be jealous of the beauty we will in.

From our Golden Beaches through to our Green parklands and more importantly our Gorgeous Green home lawns, the Green Gold Coast is so Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Contact us now to find out how we can help create the Green Gold Coast in your home. 

Sare!

We are BACK! And ready and rearing to go! After a weekend of lots of Wine and Beer and even more food than I think we could really handle, we are back on the farm making sure that we can provide you with the best lawn for your yard.

Holiday Drinks!

The paddocks have had a lovely drink as well, with beautiful rain gracing our paddocks over the break. This has really  brought out the Blue couches natural glow. Both the A grade Blue couch and the Coastal Mix are now sparkling in the sun.

Holiday Food!

The Paddocks have also had a HUGE feed. Like my delicious meals of excessive eating over the past week, the paddocks have received large doses of Organic Boosts like Chicken manure and our secret fertiliser combination. And unlike the growth of my stomach over the Holiday season, the growth on the farm is welcome and celebrated. The growth of my stomach is commentated on by my children in the “not so bikini body” type way. Yet they are happy and excited by how much the couch and Palmetto has grown. Hmm go figure.

The boys are working off their Christmas Cheer (because it is obviously only me who got a tummy. They got Cheer.) to ensure that the grass looks and feels amazing. So after the Boys have all done the hard work to create a beautiful turf grass to become your new lawn, you can sit back and relax, eat and drink some more on your new lawn, and Relax.

Start the New Year with a beautiful New Lawn. Give us a call now to arrange your delivery, or have one of the Boys install your new lawn all for you.  0266763695

Coastal Turf is now fully booked for pick ups and deliveries before Christmas.

We have limited deliveries and pick up positions available for the 28th and 29th December.

We would like to thank all our customers from this year

We look forward to talking to about your turfing needs this year and into the next.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Sarah and all the Coastal Turf Team.

Coastal Turf would like to wish your family a Merry safe Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Coastal turf is now fully booked out until Christmas.

We will be open on the 27th, 28th and 29th December from 8am to 12pm for pick ups and deliveries.

And then reopen to our normal trading hours from the 2nd January.

We look forward to another fantastic year greening peoples lives.

Its only 2 weeks from Christmas. And these are usually the 2 biggest weeks of the year. For everyone!

For most of us, its these last two weeks before Christmas that sooo much gets done. Somehow we all manage to do about 4 weeks worth of work within a very short time. We all seem to cram in School concerts, End of year Plays, End of year presentations for sports and groups, Lots and Lots of Christmas parties, as well as quick and sometimes long, friend catch ups before Christmas. Not to mention Christmas present shopping, present wrapping, teachers gifts, and then Food shopping.

And for some people who are lucky enough to have their new homes finished just in time to move for Christmas , I cannot imagine how much you are going to cram into theses coming weeks! Moving is usually a very emotional stressful situation as it is, let alone adding in a little Christmas fun as well.  Or maybe just the present of a brand new home is a Christmas present in its self. Hopefully there is a bow involved somewhere.

When can I get my new Coastal Turf Lawn delivered? 

Maybe the next step as a present for new home owners is a new Lawn. Several years ago at Christmas, well actually about 17 years ago, before I had my kids, a lovely lady persuaded our family to deliver turf to her son on Christmas morning. She said he will love it as a Christmas present. So Christmas morning, Dad, my Brother and I left Mum at home to cook up a delicious lunch, and went to hand deliver 250sqm of Blue Couch into Kingscliff.

I must admit the three of us were a little nervous about dropping off on Christmas morning a lot of turf that HAD to be laid that day to a family that may have been getting their new lawn as surprise Christmas present.  What if we turned up and they are all sitting around inter PJ’s around the tree? Much to our relief, the Mother was staying with her son for Christmas and had already given her son a card with a blade of grass enclosed to show him what was coming. So when we arrived, He was actually really happy to see us (and they were all dressed, phew!) and he and his family put down their new lawn Christmas morning.

This year, however, I do have my 3 kids at home, and although they are not little, they are still young enough to bring the Joy of Christmas into our home. So we will not be offering Christmas morning deliveries. We will be making deliveries right up to the 23rd December so you can have your lawn all ready for your guests arrive for Christmas. Or if there are coming early, they can help instal your new lawn.

We ask you give us 3-4 days notice for all pick ups and deliveries.This way we can all be organised and have the turf to your place the day you want to install it.

But everyone is coming to our home for Christmas? When do I have to have it installed to be able to run around on it Christmas Day? 

If like us, and your Joyful Christmas is full of lots of outside running around, with games like backyard Cricket, and the all important annual water gun fight, getting your lawn installed this week is optimal!

By giving your new lawn a couple of weeks to get its roots down and get a real good hold of the soil; when it comes to Christmas Day shenanigans your lawn will be ready to go. You will be able to run, tumble, fall, sit, play and spill food and drinks upon your lawn and generally have a Jolly good time without too much harm coming to your beautiful green investment.

We recommend that turf have at least 10-15 days of establishment time before you have parties on it, or run the mower across it. So this week will be the best time to put in your new lawn. But which one to choose?

A beautiful soft Wintergreen couch lawn.

• Wintergreen Couch is a fine leafed super soft couch lawn.
• Although Wintergreen is soft and comforting to bare feet, the Wintergreen is tough and robust enough to withstand football teams pounding the turf all day and stay green and soft.
• Wintergreen couch is perfect for areas blasted with hot sun all day, requiring at least 8 hours of direct sunlight per day
• The perfect lawn for little kids to fall down on and be comforted by the soft fluffy lawn.
• Favoured by Councils and developers as their Go-To turf due to its durability, and unique ability to revive with little watering.
• Wintergreen is a perfect family lawn. A great durable lawn for kids and dogs.
• Wintergreen is a great utility Lawn – easy to maintain, great dark green colour, easy to install
• And best of all, as well as being good looking, Wintergreen couch is the most cost effective lawn to install.

Or a tough robust Palmetto lawn

• Palmetto Buffalo is a thick leafed buffalo with a tendency to grow out rather than up, reducing mowing. In fact, a Palmetto buffalo lawn requires a third of the mowing of any other buffalo lawn.
• Palmetto Buffalo has excellent shade tolerance, requiring only a minimum of 3 hours of sunlight a day.
• Palmetto Buffalo holds its green colour all year, even during winter.
• Palmetto Buffalo is a drought tolerant turf grass, requiring a third of the watering of any other buffalo lawn.
• Palmetto buffalo lawns are thick and lush making your palmetto lawn weed resistant all year round.
• Palmetto buffalo has a high salt tolerance, making it perfect for coastal regions.

So contact us now so we can arrange to have your beautiful new lawn delivered, either as a present to yourself or another family member, in time for Christmas!

Sare

I’m sure at your job you all have slang or pet names for what you do and what you sell.

At Coastal Turf we are no different. Some of them are really silly, and some are little bit clever and some have no real relevance unless you are in the know.

Like Pal. This is our nick name for Palmetto Buffalo. I mean it is a bit obvious. Pal; Just the beginning of the name. Yes, it is a little bit lazy. But its a very Aussie thing to do.

Pal- metto – Your Mate in your lawn.

Palmetto does not have just one nick name. Oh No! As one of our favourites it has several.

Like my kids  call Pal – the Mate grass. They were watching an American TV show and heard someone call someone else a “Pal”. And being farm kids they have heard and been with us when we have been harvesting the Pal. My daughter, who is very straight forward in her thinking, wanted to know why Americans called each other a grass type. I had to explain that a Pal in America is like a Friend, what we would call a Mate. So now the Kids, anytime we have to harvest Palmetto Buffalo, say we are going out to harvest our Old Mate. And as you can guess, this name really stuck. It does get some giggles and smiles from the farm guys, and some strange looks from friends and family when they are visiting.

But I think that the Old Mate grass is a pretty good description. The Palmetto lawn is a really good “Friend” as a lawn.

It isn’t demanding. Your friend will not wan to be pampered and fussed over to stay looking beautiful and green. No fussing with mowing and intense summer watering. Oh no. Being a good friend, your Pal will give you your space. But still always be there when you need it.

Your Pal will love to share a glass of wine, and if you spill it on the lawn, your Pal will clean it all up faster than you can say Opps!

Like a true Pal, your Palmetto lawn will tell others how awesome you are. By saying “Look at my amazing lawn. Look at the green lush grass.” And of course make your neighbours jealous of how awesome you are, and how great a Pal you have.

And like a true friend, your Pal will take the kids and look after them while you get a quick Games of Thrones episode knocked off during the holidays. Pal loves to have kids running around on it. Loves to have kids crawl all over it. Loves to comfort bodies when they fall upon it.

So, get a Good Pal, an Old Mate at your place. Put in a Pal -metto lawn before Christmas and know you are getting a good friend on your lawn.

Chat soon

Sare