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The Lawn Guide is Australia's original, most comprehensive and favourite source of independent lawn care advice

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Lawn Care Blogs

Australia's Lawn Expert joins us with his own expert lawn care advice blog

The Lawn Guide lawn care blog includes greater and more varied discussions into lawn care and the turf industry in Australia.

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Zoysia Lawns

Zoysia lawns are the most environmentally friendly and lowest maintenance lawn for all the warmer regions of Australia.

Our strong belief in the overwhelming superiority of Zoysia leads us to to share all it's benefits to help make Zoysia the new No 1 lawn for most Australian homes parks and businesses

Organic Lawn Care

Organic lawn care tips, advice and recipes to naturally care for our lawns while creating maximum benefit to the environment

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Lawn Care Videos

Watch Australia's highest quality and most trusted lawn care videos for informative lawn care tips presented by real Aussie lawn care professionals.

Quality lawn care videos without paid actors and without hidden sales messages to sell grass!

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The Lawn Guide is Australia’s original and most comprehensive lawn care website entirely dedicated to every aspect of lawn care. We love lawns! And we know you love your lawn too! The Lawn Care Guide is Australia's favourite lawn care site for independent and unbiased lawn care advice. No matter which grass type you have at your home, whether you do your own lawn mowing or hire a contractor, The Lawn Guide has lawn care tips and lawn care advice for everyone wanting to turn their grass into a beautiful green lawn.

A well maintained lawn provides so many benefits such as heat reduction in homes, play and relaxation areas for families, and adding beauty to our homes and cities. Lawns are vitally important to all of us, however, as Australian lawn owners continue to face new challenges with water, drought and pollution, we are all being forced to improve our lawn care practices and move to environmentally friendly methods of maintaining the grass on our properties to a higher standard, while continuing to face the challenge of keeping our lawn green. The Lawn Guide is dedicated to sharing simple lawn care tips with everyone interested in creating and maintaining a beautiful lawn and garden.

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Beware of copycat imitators using our name on websites with almost identical articles and topics. We are the genuine, original and only Lawn Care Guide. If you've seen our work somewhere else - it was created by The Lawn Guide. The Lawn Guide© ~ often copied but never beaten.
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Fertilising is essential in Winter A Greener Lawn This Winter Yes, lawns can be fertilised over Winter, however a different type of fertiliser must be used in our lawn care at this time of...
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Winter Lawn Care Beautiful Winter Lawns Having a great looking lawn in Winter is often thought of as an impossibility for many people, yet as we drive around town we can’t help but...
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Lawn care for Liriopes as a lawn alternative Liriope 'Isabella' photo courtesy of Ozbreed Mondo Grass and Liriope Lawn Maintenance When we choose a lawn alternative such as Mondo Grass or...
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A Zoysia lawn after mowing Choosing a New Zoysia Lawn It may be a funny lawn name, and in fact the name has been changed many times over the years. Even in the last few years since Zoysia...
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Cool season lawns are cut at a higher height Introduction To Cool Season Lawns Lawn grasses are first divided into 2 separate categories, Warm Season Grasses, and Cool Season Grasses. As their...
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A warm season Couch lawn What Are Warm Season Grasses Grasses are first divided into 2 separate categories, Warm Season Grasses, and Cool Season Grasses. As their names suggest, they are both...
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Repairing a Hard Lawn Hard Lawns and Compacted Soils Lawns and more correctly, the soils beneath them, can become hard over time due to a variety of reasons. These can include vehicles being...
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Lawn scalped due to infrequent mowing Why Lawns Get Scalped Lawns or areas of lawns become scalped when either high points are severed off when mowing an uneven lawn, or when too much leaf...
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A Vertimowing / Scarifying Machine What is Vertimowing or Lawn Scarifying Vertimowing lawns is the process of removing an excess build up of thatch, only the C4 warm season grasses can be...
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Using Lawn Edgers Safely Using Lawn Edgers Safely Lawn edgers will spin a metal blade at high speed to cut through grass, and a spinning metal blade which comes into contact with anything other than...
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Long periods between lawn mowing should beavoided to maintain good lawn care and health Lawn Mowing Regularity This depends on factors such as the type of lawn, the time of year, and lawn...
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Honda HRU196 Lawn Mower Honda Lawn Mower Review The Honda HRU196 is a high quality commercial grade rotary lawn mower which has been both the mainstay and the backbone of the Lawn Mowing...
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Choosing Zoysia as the lowest maintenance lawn type in Australia
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Welcome

Welcome to the all new Lawn Guide. Our new website goes far deeper than just cosmetic changes, we've included all new lawn care categories, as well as all new information on Aussie lawn care for Aussie homeowners. But more than that, the new Lawn Guide reaffirms our commitment to remain the leader in Aussie lawn care advice.

And best of all, The Lawn Guide is still 100% original and independent, which means we can honestly cover all aspects of lawns without having to leave out information which may not be so favourable to any one grass type... and that's something the big grass comapanies can never do!

Regardless of how much 'some' may keep copying The real Lawn Guide!

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Mature Wintergrass with seeds How To Kill Winter Grass Winter grass is a bright, light green...
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Dollar Spot (Sclerotinia homeocarpa) Dollar Spot Disease Dollar Spot is identified as...
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Bindii | Onehunga | JoJo How To Kill Bindii Bindii is a low growing herb with carrot-top like...
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Adjusting From Excessive Watering Reducing Excessive Water Usage Having already discussed...
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A liquid Wetting Agent More Than Just Dry Soils A waxy coating on grains of soil is...
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When is the best time to water lawns Correct Lawn Watering Times Watering of lawns needs...
Organic lawn care advice to create maximum environmental benefit from our lawns.
The lowest maintenance and most environmentally friendly lawn for all warmer regions
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