Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Oct 07, 2009 10:39 am Cant see any advice on blue cooch, and not sure if you know much about it Fu, but if you do what advice do you have for the initial care of a blue cooch yard, and then whats best ongoing? One day when I have time I'd love to be able to upgrade to a cylinder mower and really look after the yard like I was able to at the oldies house when I was a kid so im hoping the soil and site preparation the landscapers throw down is ok Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch Lawn 2Oct 07, 2009 6:14 pm I bloody hope it is too Over all, the key is feeding the soil and not the turf. There is a stack on this topic on homeone already *Blood and Bone, preferably with no extras added. *Seasol and powerfeed *Olsens green bio *Molasses (used every month or two) *Certified organic soil raked in at least once a year (more important if little or no soil prep is done prior to laying) *Wetting agents (wetlock or Saturaid are the only ones I have ever had consistent results from and also were miles ahead in tests done on different brands. *Make a sheep or moo poo tea and spread that on the lawn every now and then (get a bucket, a Hessian bag, some poo. Then put the poo in the sack, soak it in the bucket and there is the tea ...serious ) Over all not one of these products will do much, but together they make one hell of a combo You wouldn't do this all at once either unless you are a lawn Nazi! Just one weekend do one, then a week or two later use something else etc. Then maybe every now and then I could suggest a "controlled release" lawn fertiliser like scotts lawn builder. Fertilisers are not going to give you the perfect lawn, they alone will put you on a merry-go-round to high maintenance costs, increased water requirements and more fungal disease than you can poke a stick at. The next person that craps on to me about lawn beetle will be slapped. It is a crock. I mean they don't even get huge populations till the soil gets hot or at least warmer. Get the water in the lawn and problem fixed As the water is used less on our lawns more than ever show stress easier and easier. Get more water to the roots and to stay in the soil and a huge part of your problem is solved. These buggers have been around for ages and all of a sudden everyone is OMG about lawn beetle and pouring tonnes of pesticides in bulk into our ecosystem willy-nilly. Jeeze one application isn't going to didley squat to them even if they were a problem. You will need at least 4 applications about 10 days apart to break the breeding cycle anyway. $$$ is what that is going to cost. Garden centres have shelves filled with bloody lawn beetle products now I guess my methods do use a little more effort but as the years go on you will require less and less work on it and you will quickly start working out what is responding best with your lawn. Overall avoid the temptation for fast results with heavy acting nutrient laden cheap fertilisers. all you get is grief but the grief will be green $$$$$$$ Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch Lawn 3Oct 07, 2009 6:27 pm thanks fu, ive been reading through other posts, just wanted to make sure bluey didnt need anything special ill definitely give your regime a shot and see how it goes thanks as always Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch Lawn 4Oct 08, 2009 8:33 am hey Fu if the soil us up to speed after a while of use, how much watering is a cooch lawn going to need to keep it nice and green? I have the okay to buy a reel mower but at this point in time with water the way it is im not sure if its worth worrying much about the yard whilst having issue's getting water on it. whats your view on that, no use cylinder mowing brown grass. ideally id put in a dedicated water tank and irrigation system for the lawn but the costs for this are a little high for now Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch Lawn 5Oct 08, 2009 6:10 pm Here in perfect Perth we do two days a week and need to deliver 10mm in our soils. For you guys, I'd say more like one watering of 15mm would be the go. Your soils don't dry out anywhere near as fast as ours. Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch Lawn 6Oct 08, 2009 7:07 pm Oh really, surely thats achievable within the set restrictions before i get a tank. it got laid today, ill post up some photo's of it in the bad afternoon sunlight when i get back from my seasol shopping mission. picked up 20L of molasses today ready for my saturday morning mission Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: How to look after a new QLD Blue Cooch *Warning Lot of Pics* 7Oct 09, 2009 11:44 am few pics of the house anyway. i reckon its come up great, pics dont do it justice because of the lighting when i was at the house yesterday afternoon. going to spend the weekend setting up an irrigation system for the front yard to start it off Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. My land is 260m2 (10m x 26m) located in claymore NSW. Under campbelltown council. 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