Western Australian soils can dry out extremely quickly as they build silica overtime which make soils waxy and hydrophobic (water-repellant), which is why it is so important to applying good quality wetting agents that are effective and long-lasting. The Aquaforce Soil Wetter and Bi-Agra Moisture Retainer are specifically designed for WA soils and are only sold by licensed turf farms and stores.
These products work an absolute treat on WA sands particularly, but are also great in hybrid soils, clays and loams in hot months. They will assist your lawns and gardens in holding water. We cannot stress enough just how important these agents are when trying to sustain lawns and plants during summer heat. By keeping your garden soil lubricated all year round, this will result in more viable soils in hot months, i.e. soils with greater water holding capacity. Aquaforce and Bi-Agra are proven treatments with very effective surfactants, unlike some of the cheaper brands available at the big warehouse entities (like granular wetting agents), that simply do not have the quality agents required to wet and retain moisture in soils. Nor do they last as long. There is no negative impact on soil biodiversity, in fact quite the opposite, the zoo beneath our feet, thrives in a wetter environment.
Applying a good quality wetting agent and moisture retainer a minimum of every 6 months (ideally beginning of spring, summer and autumn) is crucial. Every year we have a burst of enquires of water stressed and dry turf as people leave it too long to turn their sprinklers back on after winter! We have Aquaforce, Bi-Agra and free catch cups available from our farm to help your lawn this spring. More information on our product page: https://greenacresturfgroup.com.au/products/
Turf can be a strategic component of bushfire prevention as it has long been recognised by fire agencies as a desirable component of landscaping to prevent or reduce damage from bushfire.
During the 2019/20 bushfire season in Australia, more than 18.6 million hectares of land was burnt. This had significant impacts to housing, the economy and businesses. Living turf, even turf under severe mositure stress is highly resistant to ignition, and had to be in a dead or near-dead state and desiccated to extremely low moisture content levels before it would sustain fire spread.
Urban heat islands form in cities where head accumulates, due in part to the loss of urban greening and replacement with hard, constructed surfaces that absorb and retain heat. Natural turf mitigates this affect.
Irrigated Natural Turf can cool surface temperatures by an average of 4.9 degrees celsius, whereas synthetic turf is on average 11 degrees hotter than surrounding surfaces.
Stage 2 of our team installing at Baldivis Sporting Complex. We installed a total of 73,000m2 of Village Green Premium Kikuyu Jumbo Rolls for the complex over a few stages. This video captures Stage 2 completed in February.
Our team installed a total of 73,000m2 of Village Green Premium Kikuyu Jumbo Rolls for Baldivis Sporting Complex. This video captures Stage 1 completed in November.
