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Lawn Alert Autumn
Disease Warning This is a common disease associated with stressed turf in late summer and early autumn. The exceptionally dry weather during September has caused the stressed conditions resulting in an outbreak of rust. In places the attack is quite severe and very...
Leather Jackets
The daddy long legs or Crane fly as it's properly known lays hundreds of it's little eggs in our lawns in the Autumn. These hatch a few weeks later remaining in the soil and eating away on the grass roots and stems before pupating and emerging as adults in the Spring....
Lawn Care Blackburn
Lancashire Lawncare has extended its boundaries to include more of the Blackburn area. Having successfully looked after properties in Hoghton, Osbaldeston and Balderstone we have been increasingly getting calls from new customers in areas such as Brockhall Village,...
Lawn Care in the North West
The ever increasingly popular need to treat lawns has led to an upsurge in the North West areas that we cover. Currently we treat lawns from Crosby through to the Lytham St. Annes and all areas in between and around. We have 2 bases, one in Formby and one in...
Autumn Lawns
The rains have arrived along with strong blustery winds but I'm sure you'd all agree the temperatures are still ok. It's only just in the last few days that we've had a little dip really. How does that affect the lawns? Well, considering the hot drought we experienced...
Lawn Treatments 2013
"Can you please come and treat my lawn" is a phrase we often hear from new customers. The ever increasingly popular need to treat lawns has led to an upsurge in the North West areas that we cover. We're always delighted when we hear those words "come and treat my...
Spring is in the Air
Well it would finally appear that we've turned a corner with the cold easterly winds dying back and the warmer weather coming through. You may have just about begun to see a little growth from your grass. Temperatures in the ground need to be 5 degrees Celsius before...
Online Bank Transfer Payments
We've decided to repost this blog article to help with the online payments. We'd encourage as many customers as possible to make good use of this free and easy to use payment method. After adding in our details to your online banking account, i.e our bank account and...
Preparing for Spring 2013
Well although it's not quite spring there are still jobs that can be done on the lawn. You've almost certainly come to the end of the mowing, which for many will be a huge relief after this years rapid growth rate. Still it's good to have a final cut if you've not...
Lawn Alert – Fusarium
Lawn Alert! We are alerting you to a potential Fusarium problem in the lawns. We have had early waring signs of this fungal lawn disease which in many ways is similar to the Red Thread that we saw earlier this year. It will manifest itself in cloud shaped areas on the...
October Treatments
October is the month to start getting things prepared for the winter months. The lawns will start to slow down a little bit now and growth will not be nearly as rapid as it has been over the wet summer months. The fertiliser dosage that we are putting down will...
Weed of the Month – Lesser Trefoil
Once again it's rolled round to the time of year where Lesser Trefoil rears it's ugly head. Lesser Trefoil, or Yellow Suckiling Clover as it's otherwise known, is an annual weed that pops up during May-October but is particularly prevalent during June, July and...
