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Celebrating ‘Organic September’ With Sustainable Lawn Care

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Celebrating ‘Organic September’ With Sustainable Lawn Care: With Sustainable Lawn Care: ‘Organic September’ is here and the Lawn Association team firmly believes that aligning with nature, rather than battling it, is always the pivotal factor in achieving successful, sensible, and sustainable lawn care!

Sustainable and organic gardening go hand in hand, representing more than just passing trends, they are responsible practices that cultivate plants while preserving our environment. By embracing eco-conscious methods such as composting, natural pest control, and rejecting harmful products like synthetic polymer-coated fertilizers, we can actively reduce our negative impact on the ecosystem. So what should we think about lawn care wise this Organic September?

Celebrating ‘Organic September’ With Sustainable Lawn Care

Celebrating ‘Organic September’ With Sustainable Lawn Care

Keep your eye on thatch!

Are you concerned about excess thatch in your lawn? The solution lies in scarification, and there’s no better time to tackle it than September. Scarifying your lawn will give you better control over thatch levels. Furthermore, as we approach autumn and winter, we should also consider the potential issue of moss. Don’t underestimate its ability to thrive in saturated soils with reduced air space. This leads to slower water movement through the soil, keeping the surface wet for longer periods.

Thatch, a spongy material consisting of clippings, shoots, and organic matter, can exacerbate the problem by creating a moist environment for moss spores to germinate. Regular scarification provides an effective solution, promoting better water drainage and reducing the chances of moss spores taking hold. Additionally, extra aeration will be essential this autumn to maintain a healthy lawn.

Feed your lawn well and naturally, it will thank you for it!

If you are scarifying your lawn this month to control thatch, then a good balanced feed afterwards is a must!  True Grass fertilizer is crafted from recycled food waste, breaking down into essential minerals and vitamins. Packed with humic, fulvic, and amino acids, along with seaweed, mycorrhiza, and an organic wetter, it’s the sustainable, organic solution that provides all the vital elements for luscious grass and healthy soil, making it the savvy choice for conscientious lawn care!

If it keeps growing, keep mowing!

Growth should be starting to slowdown so you can begin to reduce the regularity of mowing, whilst at the same time gradually increasing the cutting height.  You can aim for 2 to 5 cuts in September.  It is most important that you check that your mower blade is sharp…the job will only be as good as the tools you use!

Sustainable lawn care promotes responsible land stewardship, educating us on the importance of long-term harmony between human cultivation and the natural world. Let’s make a positive impact on our environment, one garden at a time.

Our core mission at the Lawn Association is to make accurate lawn care information readily available via our website and through our Free Membership Scheme for gardening enthusiasts.

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Getting lawn care ready in September

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Getting lawn care ready in September: We know the summer feels like it has only just begun, but the Lawn Association team would like to share some September lawn care tips to keep your sea of green as healthy as it can possibly be!

Keep your eye on thatch!

After the last few months of ridiculous growing weather, the thatch in your lawn would have increased a lot. We only normally produce thatch for say, April, May some of June and possibly September but we have had the whole of June and July and August as well so have literally increased thatch production by 100% extra.

Getting lawn care ready in September

Getting lawn care ready in September

This is not something that many gardeners think about, but of course, when planning good sensible lawn care you should. Do we hit it hard in autumn to compensate or split between two light ones, autumn and spring?

So what can we do about excess thatch?

Scarification is the key and September is the perfect time to do this, and it will enable you to control thatch levels. Does anyone think that moss may be an issue this autumn and winter? No, of course not, moss will only be thought about when it appears. But have no doubt, it will, because soils have been saturated and air space will have decreased. This happens when the fine soil particles move around and will have consolidated. This means water will move slower through the soils meaning the surface remains wetter for longer.

Thatch is a spongy-like material that sits above the lawn soils. It comprises all the clippings, shoots, and dead organic matter that have accumulated. When this remains wet during winter, moss spores will have a greater chance to germinate, so by regularly scarifying your lawn, this will allow rainwater to run down into the soil and away from the surface, giving the moss spores less chance to germinate (extra aeration will also be required this autumn too)

David Hedges Gower, Chairman of the Lawn Association states “Good lawn care is all about working with nature, not against it. Through dealing with excess thatch sustainably via scarification and other good practices such as sensible mowing and regular aeration, biodiversity and a healthy lawn can be maintained.”

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September Update From Scott MacCallum

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September Update From Scott MacCallum: Well, the football and rugby seasons are in full swing once again and those with affiliations to a particular team – most of us – are experiencing the uncomfortable feelings we all get when our team is in action.

We might be engaged in a serious piece of conversation about potential new curtains for the bedroom, or watching the latest episode of Bodyguard, but what we really want to do is steal a look at our phone to check the score. You know full well it’s not going to go well – not the score, but the reaction from your other half to what is a display of less than 100% attention to the task in hand.

September Update From Scott MacCallum

I’ve said before, but the extent to which sport weaves its way into our every day lives, and dictates our moods, is never to be underestimated. My wife and I even got caught up in the World Cup and found ourselves not disinclined to share a smile when England scored. Even from north of the border the atmosphere created by a thumping of Panama and a penalty shoot out win against Columbia could be felt. The distant memories when Scotland qualified for five consecutive World Cups made those feelings all the more poignant.

Scotland’s qualification for the Women’s World Cup next year is small consolation and I’m sure the entire country will get behind the team but the, amended, famous Tartan Army chant “When you hear the noise of the Tartan Army girls” doesn’t quite work to the same extent.

I do live in eternal hope that the next generation of football’s superstars could contain the odd one with a Scottish accent, but living in hope is something I’ve become used to – living in expectation is something I leave to those south of the Hadrian’s Wall.

Anyhow, all of the above would not be possible without the pitches to perform on and with none of us knowing what sort of weather we are going to get to prepare those pitches it is a credit to all that standards are so high and that the limitations of budget are exceeded so frequently.

Scott MacCallum

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