Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: seed heads and empire turf 4Oct 04, 2010 1:56 pm Seed heads have just started emerging in Sydney over the last 2 weeks After 4 years - we're in! Re: seed heads and empire turf 5Oct 04, 2010 6:36 pm Every type of lawn, grass or turf, call it what you will, will produce flowers and then seeds at some point. For most common turf varieties, these are sterile and don't germinate. Re: seed heads and empire turf 7Oct 07, 2010 9:44 pm Same here in Perth, though mine was recently laid. I love its little purple 'stubble' Re: seed heads and empire turf 8Oct 29, 2010 5:52 pm My 1.5 week EZ is sprouting these seed heads - my neighbour's is actually doing the same thing, although he's had his down for almost a year. He's found out that he needs to add nitrogen...do I need to do the same given it's so new (and on a fairly decent base of organic soil), or can I just assume that once it adapts to its new home, the seed heads will go away? Re: seed heads and empire turf 9Oct 29, 2010 9:50 pm Please don't add nitrogen. You will end up with fast growing, weak, disease prone leaves and turf that will use more water with thinner cell walls. Its old school advice like that I am here to give better fertiliserwise or organic means of turf care for domestic lawn owners. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what is happening in regard to seed heads and every lawn will flower and then seed. These seeds will be sterile just as they will be with Sir Walter and Palmetto. Couch also seeds. It is a natural response for any plant (lawn is a plant ) to flower in times of stress. It ensures survival of the species. Your poor old lawn and your neighbours has had it's legs cut off and now we all demand perfection from the poor thing It will be fine and EZ especially is not something requiring heavy nitrogen chemical fertilisers. Seamungus, Cert organic compost under it with zeolite and in sandy soils, bentonite clay. Molasses, and Seasol For West Aussies the "Shades of Green" from Stock Tech is great too. I say it over and over, never feed the plant, always feed the soil The micro organisms are what make your lawn grow and 100 years of fertiliser companies telling us different is a very hard habit to break Stick to the organic means of care and you can give your neighbour advice when he thinks he has lawn beetle problems and fungal diseases Your will be a bit sensitive for a year or two but nearly all lawn types are Go organic and you'll never use any other way again P.S. If you guys think I go on about micro organisms and organic soil health, you should talk to Wayne Challis of StockTech That guy is incredible Re: seed heads and empire turf 10Oct 29, 2010 10:02 pm I should add that in commercial turf care the use of controlled release ammonia based chemical fertilisers is a valid method for caring and maintaining turf. These are used and managed very carefully. Water is also managed with great care and attention as costs associated are enormous! Domestically we have no need for them. Much of the advice we receive comes from highly trained turf managers and specialists. Also many of those old methods we have embraced for years like dumping urea and or sulphate of ammonia on a lawn and that worked well back in the days when (I know we could in Perth) have the retic on for 4 hours a day every day. We could even water morning and night and no one cared because there was loads of water. All the nutrients washed into the rivers and wet lands and no one cared because there was still some biodiversity. Now that we can no longer do that, those methods for domestic gardeners and turf owners needs to change to more organic methods. You will really love what happens In turf management not many acknowledge domestic and commercial turfs as needing different skills and approaches. Some of the best are starting to They using concrete or timber sleepers? Timber or steel uprights? Any drainage behind sleeper? 3 5823 I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 9755 OK it's been a little while! I've been busy getting time where I can to work on this. I started by grading a pad (borrowing a… 26 19950 |