The Right Tools for a Beautiful Lawn

If you want a beautifully maintained lawn, it is essential to have the right tools under your gardening belt!

Everyone has a unique vision of their ideal backyard with different grass varieties, soil compositions, sizes, shapes, moisture levels, and shade. But achieving this vision and keeping your lawn optimised can be a tough job without the correct supplies. There are some fantastic tools and products in Australia that every lawn-lover and gardening enthusiast should get their hands on before starting their next project.

Although your gardening gadgets may differ from your neighbour’s, it’s always handy to pop your head over the fence to chat and swap around! This blog will take you through our lawn care tools and gardening products to help you maintain a beautifully-kept lawn all year round. 

Gardening gloves 

The first vital product found in any gardening shed or toolbox would be a pair of quality gardening gloves. We know all too well that gardeners can often find that they need to do a lot of repetitive tasks, which can lead to blisters and calluses on their hands.

Whether gardening, landscaping or undertaking lawn care, it’s vital always to be equipped with durable gloves. Gloves can go a long way toward keeping you safe and making your gardening tasks more manageable. You can easily hunt down a great pair to last through the seasons at your local garden stores or Bunnings.

Sprinklers and irrigation 

Sprinklers are great for distributing water evenly around your garden and irrigating gardens in dry climates like Australia’s. An irrigation system helps regulate how much water each plant gets during heavy rain or when you aren’t home to keep an eye on it!

Garden hose 

A garden hose is an affordable necessity for hydrating dry spots in your backyard and keeping hard to reach plants healthy when sprinkler systems can’t cover them. They also come in handy to clean outdoor areas and fill up backyard pools in the Aussie heat!

Fertiliser

Organic or chemical-based fertilisers deliver the essential nutrients to your lawn, plants and vegetable patches to keep them happy and healthy. We recommend fertilising your lawn lightly every six weeks, with a follow-up application a week or two later. In Perth, late May is the best time to fertilise to keep your lawn looking good over the winter. With a wide range on the market, the best lawn fertilisers will often vary based on your lawn type, climate and soil.

Soil PH Tester

A soil PH test kit is the most efficient and cost-effective way to improve the soil of any lawn type. A healthy lawn soil pH ranges between 6.0 and 7.0, which thrives at 6.5. You can efficiently conduct a lawn health check with affordable PH testers.

Lawn mower

Lawn mowers are a staple piece of lawn care equipment used for chopping, trimming, or mowing grass patches, fields, lawns, and gardens — keeping your grass looking neat and growing at an even, appropriate height. To cut the grass at an even height, a typical lawn mower employs one or more blades that move or revolve. With so many makes and models on the market, check out the top picks for Aussie lawn mowers in 2022.

Leaf blower 

If you have plenty of shady trees in your backyard prone to shedding, a leaf blower is your new best friend! A leaf blower that can make short work of any fallen piles of leaves and clippings by blowing them off of your lawn in seconds. If your yard is smaller in size, a garden rake can also do the job of tidying up your outdoor area without taking up too much time in your day.

Whipper snipper

Whack away those pesky weeds threatening your lawn or garden beds. Weed whackers or whipper snippers offer quick and easy removal of weeds from around your hardscape areas like sidewalks, patios, driveways and more without using chemicals or pesticides. 

The right advice

Don’t stress if you haven’t crossed every tool off on our list! These are just some of the many fantastic gardening tools and products you can begin curating to help you achieve the best results for your Aussie lawn and garden spaces. Taking care of your lawn is simple if you have the right advice and who better to provide it than your local lawn experts! We’re a proud, premier turf supplier in Perth, providing homes and businesses throughout WA with exceptional green, healthy lawns since 1986. Contact us today for information on caring for your garden landscape or luscious grass areas — at Joondalup Turf Farm, we’re here to help!