Lawns can become dry and compacted over winter so aerate with a fork, or spiky strap on shoes,this will create little holes in your lawn, about 2 inches deep, that will help rain to penetrate through into the root system of your grass.

We like to use artificial complete lawn fertilisers now in Spring because there’s been plenty of rain about and it’s cooler. Use Scott’s Lawn Builder, Lawn Magic, Yates Lawn Booster, Amgrow’s Ecosmart Buffalo lawn Food, Amgrow’s Ecosmart No 17 and the old Shirley’s No 17 lawn fertiliser.  

When it’s hot in summer we feed with an organic fertiliser such as Sudden Impact for Lawns, Munn’s Buffalo Booster or Organic Life.

Prevent lawn grub with an organic productcalled Ecogrub, which feeds, treats lawn grub and includes a wetting agent… this really makes lawn maintenance so easy! Lawn grub is controlled with the active ingredients eucalyptus oil and tea tree oil – safe, organic and an Australian invention.

Once established, lawns should tolerate long periods of dryness, resulting in a gradual browning. A lawn should never be watered with drinking water. Hook up a subsurface irrigation system that takes your recycled water under the lawn. Recycled water can come from the rainwater tank or the laundry.

Letting your grass grow longer will trap moisture and reduce evaporation from the soil. Keep ryegrass lawns cut to 5cm and fine grass lawns to 2.5cm. Do not fear a brown lawn during periods of no rain; trying to keep it green is a complete waste of water. Believe me, a brown lawn recovers quickly once it rains.