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Some of the lawns I have cut so far, I would say that 20% are suffering from some level of moss infestation and these will need to be addressed fairly quickly.
Looking at today not even sure we will bother to get out and look to cut any business parks
Reminds of the time two years ago after the heavy snow in feb, when we had a call from a gentleman who wanted a lawn analysis and to discuss the state of his lawns. Insisted someone visit him..only trouble was his lawn was under 3-4 inches of snow...mmhhhh let me think about that one. Still makes me laugh. He did see the funny side and said, he had been thinking about it for ages and totally missed the fact that it had snowed heavily for a few days !
Snow stopped play!
For the past week we have been preparing a piece of land ready for an ornamental grass lawn to be sown when the weather decides to warm up. The area probably required two more days work before final leveling and top soil.
Last week we picked up the Stihl Kombi system. Including the tiler, hedge cutter, strummer and carbon pole attachment. Like a mug we decided to give the power brush a miss. We could have probably had ROI for the power brush by now!
The tiller is an excellent piece of kit, before it snowed!
Our Honda pro roller lawn mower is still sat at the dealers. We thought we will keep the cash in the bank for another two weeks as it probably is not the greatest snow plough in the world. Teehee. I have noted somewhere an estesia being used as a plough?
This weather whilst slowing our customer quotes for potential work down has infact allowed us not to panic awaiting the arrival for our first fertiliser delivery from the UK.
To think we were in Tshirts last week!
Bugger!
We are only getting the snow now, last week (When the weather was dry/warm) I was out putting out the iron (pre-scarify treatment).
If there is no snow/frost tomorrow I see no reason not to get back out and carry on.
Carry on doing what? It's too cold to weed/feed and also scarifying. Putting down iron will never be that effective in cold weather
Robbie @ PremierLawnsni said:
If needs be - sometimes you just have to go for it! We have a wedding venue lawn to get prepped and ready for the end of April. Grass needs spring feed, bare patches where marquees have been left for too long needed to be scarified/seeded and of course moss is prevalent! So last Tuesday, 15c, the ground was right, so we did go for it, covered with a germination blanket and kept our fingers crossed! It's under another blanket now - 75mm snow!
I don't disagree that if you have a specific event to prepare for you may need to begin earlier than the ideal time. However, if you are treating regular customers that are following a 'standard' programme of treatments then now is not the time as the lawn will not benefit from any treatment until the grass (and weeds) are actively growing
What do you consider a 'standard' program ?
Not a catch Q, just curious...
Most of our lawn treatments are for commercial sites (ie somewhat pre determined and inclusive ) with a few large private residences ...always willing to learn :-)
I put standard in inverted commas as there is no standard treatment per se. I treat each lawn individually so it can be very different throughout the season. However, I do have a number of customers who just want 4 weed and feeds each year (they have a budget which doesn't stretch to other treatments e.g. aeration, scarification etc). This is what i refer to as standard but even with these customers i can still be using different weedkillers or fertilisers depending on what the lawn needs.
Do you have your own aerator or hire one in and do them all together Scott? If so, what have you got - a good commercial hollow tine one seems mega bucks.
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