💚 Autumn Lawn Care Megathread & ask Lawn Solutions Australia anything! 💚

[u/MrsKittenHeel]

Hello Aussie gardeners!

We hope you are enjoying the shift to cooler weather.

For this season's lawns mega thread, Lawn Solutions Australia u/LawnSolutionsAU have kindly offered to help with diagnosing lawn issues or answering any questions. Lawn Solutions are a national network of turf growers with experts in Aussie climates.

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[u/Alexmoloney]

Hi u/LawnSolutionsAu thanks for manning this mega thread I’m wondering if you’d be able to tell me what type of grass I have in my yard? Also it’s constantly growing into my garden beds is there a good way to control this type of grass.

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[u/LawnSolutionsAu → u/Alexmoloney]

Hi Alex, thanks mate! You have kikuyu there, very invasive grass. So much so some people call it a weed. It can make for a great quick repairing lawn though when managed well. As for the garden beds its always going to be a bit of a battle with kikuyu. It grows from aboveground and below ground runners which is why it can pop up in garden beds from underneath. This makes it very hard to stop. Deep garden edging can help to an extent, plus regular edging or use of a nonselective herbicide carefully to treat and eradicate where you dont want it.

[u/Alexmoloney → u/LawnSolutionsAu]

Awesome thank you for the help knowing that gives me a great place to start with both fighting it in the garden beds and helping it grow as my lawn.