Have you noticed how cold its been lately? Especially in the mornings. In fact the average long term temperature for august is 8.0°C the average for august this year has been a whopping is 7.7°C What both more interesting and concerning is the lack of rainfall we should expect about 376mm for the year yet we have only received 252mm a massive shortfall of over 100ml. So? How does this affect me? You may ask. Well what will be interesting to watch while everything appears green its from cold variety winter grass and weeds. With the colder days it’s going to take longer for our summer lawns to wake up and if the rainfall doesn’t increase significantly, we are going to see a long hard summer of watering ahead of us.
I’m planning to plant a new lawn this year what does this mean for me?
Good question
Well if your planning in planting turf it doesn’t mean a lot as you can prepare your area and lay it virtually any time of the year and it will sit dormant until the soil temperature get to approximately 15° and then it will start growing and throwing down roots. If your planning on growing your lawn from seed your probably best to wait a bit longer as most lawn seeds germinate between 15-25° check with your seed supplier as to what temperatures is best for your seed. So, with this in mind it will be worth keeping an eye on the soil temp and look to plant mid to late September once it starts to warm up a little.
What about lawn reno’s / scarifying?
Well the same rules apply; you need to wait for it to start to grow and come out of its dormant state before you get into that lawn renovation to achieve the best results of rejuvenation.
What about fertilizer?
Fertilizer will have very little of no effect on a dormant lawn so its best again to wait for it to warm up a little more before application. That said we have seen success in slow growing and dormant lawns with the use of kelp and high iron products in holding a green colour.
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