Posts tagged as: Sir Launcher

Launch your lawn / Lawn Installation (video)

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Starter Fertiliser

Sir Launcher is a fantastic new water saving starter fertiliser that will save you time, money and water.  Sir Launcher consists of some starter fertiliser, essential nutrients, and water crystals that act like water magnets.

The water crystals rehydrate themselves with each watering lasting several years before biodegrading harmlessly.  It also helps lawns survive water restrictions by less frequent watering during establishment. It needs to be raked into the top 50-75mm of soil.  You would be crazy not to use this product when laying a new lawn.

It only costs around 35cents a square metre to water restriction proof your lawn and give it the great healthy start it needs with Sir Launcher, which is money well spent!

When to fertilise your lawn (video)

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To keep your Sir Walter in peak condition you will need regular applications of fertiliser.  Healthy deep rooted lawns are better equipped to deal with stress, maintain their winter colour and prevent the germination of weeds.

When laying you should always use a starter fertiliser such as Sir Launcher, then approximately 6-8 weeks after installation we recommend using Sir Walter Premium Lawn Food at 25grams per square metre.  Then as an ongoing guide, fertilise your lawn with Sir Walter Lawn Food at the start of spring, middle of summer and autumn.When it is raining it is the perfect opportunity to get out your Sir Walter fertiliser, because you don’t have to water it in, you are saving water and your grass will love you for it!  You can spread by hand or with a fertiliser spreader.

As a benchmark feed one small section of about 1 square metre with twice the amount that you apply to the rest of your lawn and water that in well too.  If the rest of your lawn looses colour and this area retains its colour, it is telling you that it is time to feed again.So don’t forget regular applications of Sir Walter Premium Lawn Food will give you a nice healthy lawn all year round.

Preparation for a new lawn (video)

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Preparing a New Lawn

The preparation for your new lawn is just as important as the installation and crucial to its success.

Always spray the area with a weed killer such as Glypho 360 to remove any unwanted weeds, vegetation or an existing lawn and remember always follow the instructions.

Digging out existing grasses is not always a good way to kill them as some roots can go down over a metre.  If your soil is not ideal and you need to improve the structure, cultivate with Gypsum organic matter for clay soils and plenty of organic matter for sandy soils before spreading a 100mm layer of turf underlay soil mix.  For more specific advice do not hesitate to contact us 1300 554 442 – or ask us a question on our Facebook page.

If you have a 150mm of good soil already there is no need to bring in any new soil, just cultivate with a rotary hoe or by hand.  In some situations you may want to bring in a layer of turf underlay soil mix, just to help you fine tune those levels before putting the turf down.

Calculating how much soil you will need is fairly easy.  For a depth of 100m you will need 1 cubic metre per 10spm and spreading is simple. Once your soil has been cultivated and you have spread your turf underlay soil mix, it’s a great idea to add some Sir Launcher which really helps get your lawn started and established.  Mix whatever you have added into the top 75mm, level it out and you are ready to go.

 

Lawn Lovers Lawn Rescue (video)

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Lawn Lovers Lawn Rescue

Now one of the things that can happen to many lawns is the root zone dries out the lawn gets hungry and really starts to struggle. And for us the lawn owner we either think it’s all too hard and simply give up or go and spend a heap of money on the wrong products.

A few years ago Sir Walter launched a starter fertiliser called Sir Launcher. Sir Launcher is full of the best fertilisers and water storage crystals. The only thing is it’s designed to go on before you install your new lawn, so it doesn’t really work for existing lawn. But that problem has been solved thanks to the Lawn Lovers Range.

Lawn Rescue is an easy-to-use, clip on hose pack that contains no nasty chemicals and what Sir Launcher does to new lawns, Lawn Rescue will do to existing lawns.

Lawn Rescue is an effective starter fertiliser designed for the development of root systems and early turf growth, specifically developed to stimulate support and protect new root growth in turf while optimising water availability to the plant. It contains all the vital nutrients like nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous. It also contains organic seaweed kelp and polycrylamide water storage technology to keep the water in the root zone where the plant most needs it.