I don’t know about your partner, but my husband snores. And really really loudly. Maybe he is part steam train. After 10 years of marriage and sleeping next to him nearly every night for those 10 years you would have thought I would have been used to it by now. But it still wakes me up, and it still makes me cranky that I am awake and he is fast asleep. I don’t think its the actual snoring that annoys me, its really the fact that he is asleep and I am awake. As all wives of snoring husbands know, I broken nights sleep, with a jealous edge to it can make you less than excited to go to work the next day and preform your best.

But this weekly husband is away, installing a new yard and family play area in Coffs Harbour for a wonderful family. (I’m sure this husband doesn’t snore. His wife I think is the snorer). So I am sleeping soundly. Which I think will mean that I will more rested and a happier person on the farm this week. I will have lots of energy to prepare the turf for harvest, harvest beautiful thick fluffy turf, and help deliver to you a brand new lawn. Ahhh. And my people skills will be fantastic. I will be eager and excited to have adult conversations with EVERYONE who rings this week. We have 3 wonderful children, but the constant chat about who is better Batman or Superman. It has been 2 days and already I am that person who is really interested in what you are saying. Especially about your lawn.

Or I by Thursday I will be so exhausted because I can’t sleep because my husband is not sleeping next to me.

Chat soon

Sare

 

This week has brought lots and lots of rain, beautiful sun, really large puddles on the farm, a couple of stray eels and fish, mud, and of course turf harvesting to our farm. It has been lots of fun and adventures for all of us.

The start of the week began with the sun coming out and us exciting turf farmers waiting for the water to recede from our lower paddocks and clean up the debris from the other paddocks. And of course absolutely loving our few paddocks that didn’t go under. I don’t think I have ever loved the Buffalo paddocks so much. It is so tough and resilient, and super green that I fell in love with the Palmetto Buffalo all over again. These few dry paddocks like the Palmetto buffalo,  meant that people were still able (if there yards were still able) to receive their turf orders. Be they a little pre-watered.

This week also saw a few paddocks covered with a lot of water. Which the dogs thought was so much fun. The eels and the little fish which usually live in our dams, were swimming free across the flooded paddocks. The dogs were amazed and the little swimmers keep them entertained for hours. It did make them smell less desirable when we had to jump in the ute to come home though. I would like to mention that absolutely no eels nor fish were harmed. Our dogs are not that fast nor clever and were just fascinated.

 

Harvesting turf after such a big down pour is always muddy and a little bit more fun than normal. I have decided that Mud is really good for your skin. It must be. I mean all those spas charge people for a mud wraps. I get to have mud spread from head to toe over me on super wet days and I’m sure my skin (of course once all the mud is washed off) looks amazing. The smell although is not that much fun. Unless your a dog.

 

So in the interest of keeping my skin looking really young and also washing off the smell with lots of water, Coastal Turf is still able to provide you with all our turf varieties. Be they heavy and pre-watered for your convenience, we can deliver your turf to your door this weekend.

 

We are in NSW and NSW has the Queens Birthday long weekend this weekend, (happy birthday Queen!) so we will not be delivering turf on Monday. So get your weekend deliveries in now so you can knock over the dirt dirty part of your weekend over in the beginning and then you can get on to enjoying the rest of your weekend. Be it dirty or not.

Chat soon

Sare

A Good Lawn is a Green lawn. I believe it should be soft and fluffy, an impressive green colour and make you happy when you look at it. It should bring a calmness over you. A sense of joy and pride. But it shouldn’t make you cringe at how much it cost you. The pride should come from knowing you spent your hard earned money on something that is beautiful and an investment into your home.

At this time of year especially when the weather is cooler and you need something outside to make you feel happy and want to venture out, even if it is just to hang out your washing. Especially to hang out your washing. That is one job I hate and try to avoid all the time. But I must say having the soft blue couch under my feet makes it a lot nicer to be out hanging out clothes, especially when I know that in two days time I will be hanging out again. School uniforms! Ahhhh!

Anyway, the Coastal Mix is a combination of the super soft lovely Blue Couch and the strength of the Carpet Grass to make a fantastic Dark Green Lawn, that doesn’t take much love and care to make it look fantastic. And it won’t cost you the earth either, in water management, establishment, nor initial purchase. And it will make you feel better, that although you spent a LOT of money on those lovely school uniforms, (which your kids have spilt paint, yogurt, texta, and goodness knows what that brown stain is) you didn’t on the nice grass comforting your feet as you hang them out AGAIN! And they can spill all that interesting stuff on the lawn, and it won’t get weird stains. Believe me my kids coloured in the leaves of the carpet grass when they were little. And it still grew.

Awesome!

Well, I’m off to wash MORE school uniforms to be worn tomorrow to then be hung out AGAIN the next day.

Have fun, chat soon

Sare

My kids told me this morning it was definitely winter now. I had to break the bad news to them it was still only autumn. And this was just the start of the chilly season. I must admit I couldn’t feel my fingers this morning either.

And the best part about the cooler months is that I can stop mowing at my house, well the Empire Zoysia area anyway. The Empire’s leaf grow slows right down in winter. ITs amazing. It stays soft and dark green, without me doing anything to it. It really is the E-Z lawn.

A lovely gentleman had some Empire Zoysia installed a few weeks ago and I have turned him into a Grass Crazy Lawn fantastic person as well. He loves the Empire nearly as much as I do. So soft, yet such a strong.

Stay warm with a Empire Lawn. The lawn will warm your home in winter and cool it in summer. It will provide you with stress free happiness when you look outside.So you can snuggle up inside and stay warm and cosy, safe in the knowledge that you won’t have to go out and mow this week.

Chat soon

Sare

This morning coming down to the farm was much easier than others. The air is warm, and the sun was shining and the grass smelt beautiful. Don’t you just love that freshly mowed smell. It has so many of those childhood memories attached to the fresh mown smell. I always have those happy childhood feelings come rushing back and it makes me smile.

And it is a smell and a feeling I want my kids to share in. Although my children may develop memories a little different to mine. Mine are of my Dad mowing our lawn with the old Victor and then running through and playing in the grass clippings. And of course playing cricket on the couch. You can get a really good bounce off a green couch lawn.

My Children will have memories of me mowing the Green Couch paddocks in a tractor, singing badly to what they call “Old” music. Hopefully though the Soccer Mum memory holds more weight in their minds though. It is, of course, now its Soccer season. So my boys and I are out on the green couch having a practice. And it does always make me feel better knowing that I tend to bounce better on a green couch lawn. I am meant to be just a spectator but quite often I am roped in, to be Goalie or another position that is less likely to have to run,  and I get knocked down. And the couch is comforting when as a Middle aged woman of not fantastic fitness I fall down on the ground.

I do think my kids will have some of the fun memories associated with the smell of freshly mown lawns. Hopefully its not of their mother strolled on the ground after they have deftly manoeuvred a ball straight past her.

 

Chat soon

Sare

 

 

Its starting to feel a lot like Autumn is actually here now. The jeans are starting to come out of the wardrobe and cardigans are being thrown in the car for when the afternoon gets cooler. And often we start to think less about outside. But really this is the best time to be outside. The air is still warm during the day time and the soils are warm for little roots to get established as well.

Installing turf now is fantastic. It means that you can install a beautiful lawn without the heat exhausting you. Over winter you can look out over your green lush lawn and get that happy feeling, and then in Summer, your lawn will be already established with a good strong root system so it won’t need as much watering in the warmer months. Its really a win win. Less effort and energy now to also ensure less work for yourself later on!

So why not put in an empire Zoysia lawn this Autumn. The Empire is a soft thinner leafed lawn, that cushions your bare foot as you walk. And my Favourite part is the in winter its leaf growth slows right down. To the point where at my place I don’t mow the Zoysia all winter. Its fantastic.

So its soft, comforting, hardly any work, and looks fantastic.

A great Autumn project to make your lawn and home look amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chat soon
Sare 🙂

What are you doing this Monday the labour day public holiday? Thinking of getting your lawn in? One of the advantages of being in NSW is that we have different holidays to qld. So we are out delivering and installing new lawns on Monday. As long as you have your order into us by Saturday at 12pm your new lawn will arrive to you on Monday morning. 

Public holidays are great times to install your new lawn as most people have the day off.  So have a BBQ with friends. With the knowledge that they have the help improve your dirt into a green lush lawn before any food or drink can pass their lips. 
Have fun and chat soon

Sare 

I always find that when I order something exciting to be delivered to your place or the office its like a present. Its exciting and I can’t wait to open it. But sometimes I realise after I order something I don’t always know how it will be delivered.

At Coastal Turf when you order an exciting new lawn present for yourself, or your loved ones you don’t really think about how it will be delivered. We try and explain on the phone as best we can about the delivery process, but a picture os worth a thousand words.

One of our amazing customers in Ocean Shores took these great pictures of the delivery and installation. Ethel is just the Turf dog tester.

Hope this answers your questions a little, other wise give me a ring and we can have a chat about the best way to get the turf to your place.

Chat soon

Sare

This week Tony the Turfman and his crew installed a beautiful new Empire Zoysia lawn at Ocean Shores. The gentleman wanted a thinner leafed soft cushioning lawn, without the fuss and other, and the ability to withstand a little shade. And he choose the Empire Zoysia. Ethel the Turfdog agreed with his choice. It was a wonderful lawn for a lie down after a quick inspection of the property. And Tony the Turfman and his boys worked hard to install the beautiful Zoysia slabs into a Empire Zoysia Lawn.

AS you can see, team work is the best idea for lawn installations, with someone carting the turf to the right places, someone lining up and installing the slabs, and the most skilled and coordinated person using the cane knife to cut into the edges and shape the slabs into a beautiful lawn.

Have a great ANZAC weekend. For those marching, thank you.

We are booked out this weekend, but are happy to take your orders for the following week from Tuesday on delivery.

Chat soon

Sare

At Coastal Turf we work hard on our paddocks to create beautiful soft lush green turf grasses for your new lawn. We use a special recipe to feed the plant and nourish its every need to create a healthy root system, which support the lush green leaves which will become your lawn. By feeding the plant on our farm, when we harvest the turf with soil and roots as about half the slab width 9the other half thick lush fluffy leaf) we send along to you all the best bits to create a beautiful lawn. This secret family recipe is tried and proven over the past 20 years to create not only gorgeous green paddocks on our farm, but Stunning lawns at your house. And it all starts at the ground level up.

 

Soils are so important. Microorganisms, worms and bugs are so important in the growth of a healthy lawn. These are crucial in unlocking the stored nutrients in the soil for the plant to absorb to become a Gorgeous Green Grass. Fertilisers within our secret family recipe provide the stored nutrients for these amazing animals to eat and poop out for the plant to absorb.  Sunlight is vital. The leaf requires the amazing warmth and nutrients that the sun provides to photosynthesis to stay green and lush, so picking the right turf grass for your area is really important. Low lights a thick leaf, full sun a thinner leaf. Water, like for us mere mortals, is really important for all life to survive. Where Coastal Turf comes in is really important. And that is providing you with not only the right grass for your situation, but most importantly providing you with a Healthy, Green, Lush (secret family recipe enriched) Turf Grass for your lawn. By starting out with the best, you give your new lawn the best opportunity to be the healthiest greenest lushest lawn in the street. And be the envy of all those around you.

Chat soon,

I’m off to mix up the family turf recipe to feed our paddocks. Unfortunately it doesn’t smell as good to me as our secret Scone recipe, but the paddocks sure do love it. 😉

Sare