Macca's Lawn Journal: Australian Lawn Care Tips & Guides
Real lawn care from a real lawn. What actually works on Sir Walter Buffalo in Ipswich QLD: mowing heights, fertiliser rates, weed control, disease management, and the app I built to pull weather, soil science, and treatment data into one place so I'd stop guessing and making the same mistakes twice.
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Kikuyu vs Couch vs Buffalo vs Zoysia: which lawn drinks the most?
Buffalo has the highest base water-use coefficient in LawnSuite, but roots and soil change the watering interval. Here are the model's values and their limits.
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Is a lawn app worth $5 a month? The maths
I put LawnSuite's listed plans beside the FAO-56 water-cost scenarios and a label-led bag calculation, then spell out where the maths does not apply.
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Spring watering by city: September, October and November in the model
A spring cut of the FAO-56 city comparison: monthly rain and modelled lawn-irrigation estimates for eight Australian capitals across September, October and November.
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Lawn allergies in Australia: which grasses make pollen, and living with the lawn you've got
Grass pollen, mowing and hay fever: what the evidence says about Couch, Kikuyu, Paspalum, ryegrass, Buffalo and Zoysia in Australia.
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What LawnSuite does now, plus a calculator safeguard in an Android draft
A founder's update on LawnSuite's watering balance, care check-ins, label-grounded Jed and a calculator change in the new Android build, with its release limits.
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Best lawn care apps for Australian homeowners (2026)
I revisited the current lawn-app pages for Australian homeowners: what they advertise, what needs checking locally, and where LawnSuite fits.
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How much water does your lawn actually need? FAO-56 vs the 25 mm-a-week rule, city by city
I compared a monthly FAO-56 lawn-water estimate with the 25 mm rule across eight Australian capitals. Here's the method, the water-cost maths and its limits.
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Spring lawn renovation by grass type: Buffalo, Couch, Kikuyu, Zoysia and cool-season
The main renovation steps are familiar, but which ones your lawn needs and how hard you push them depend on the grass. A grass-by-grass guide to scalping, scarifying, aerating and feeding a Buffalo, Couch, Kikuyu, Zoysia or cool-season lawn in spring.
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When to put down pre-emergent in Australia (watch soil temperature, not the calendar)
Spring pre-emergent is a race against summer-weed germination, and the starting gun is soil temperature, not a date. How to time it, the two ordering traps that waste it, and how to check a product is right for your grass.
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Oversowing in spring: what actually makes sense on an Australian lawn
Spring isn't the classic oversow window — autumn is. Here's the honest version: getting winter ryegrass out cleanly, when over-seeding thin turf in spring is worth it, which grasses take seed at all, and the pre-emergent trap.
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The first feed of spring: how to know your lawn is actually ready
The first spring feed is one of the easiest lawn jobs to mistime. Here's how to read the signals — soil temperature, real growth, frost — so you feed the lawn and not the weeds.
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When to fertilise your lawn in Australia (by grass type)
Fertilising windows for Buffalo, Couch, Kikuyu, Zoysia and cool-season lawns — when to feed, when to stop, and the mistakes that burn lawns or feed weeds.
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Common lawn problems in Australia: what's actually wrong
Grubs, fungus, dry patch, weeds, compaction or shade? Identify the most common Australian lawn problems with simple home tests before buying the wrong fix.
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When Should You Dethatch or Scarify an Australian Lawn?
Learn when to dethatch or scarify Buffalo, Couch, Kikuyu, Zoysia and cool-season lawns using growth, thatch and recovery signals—not fixed dates.
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Spring lawn renovation in Australia: what to do, in what order
The full spring renovation sequence for Australian lawns — when to start in your state, and the right order for weeds, dethatching, aerating, topdressing, and feeding so each step doesn't undo the last.
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Autumn into winter: what every Australian grass type needs right now
A grass-by-grass guide to autumn and winter lawn care, with product-label checks before treatment or establishment and sources for emergency next steps.
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Kikuyu Grass Care Guide for Australian Lawns
Care for established Kikuyu lawns across Australia: mowing, FAO-56 watering, feeding, weed checks and conditional renovation, with regional notes.
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How I killed my Couch lawn and started over with Sir Walter Buffalo
I spent two years fighting a losing battle with Couch grass on Coalfalls clay. Grubs ate the roots, Barricade killed the recovery, and I wasted thousands guessing. Here's the full renovation story and why it led me to build LawnSuite.
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Why I stopped mowing my Buffalo at 25mm (and what I do now)
I used to scalp my Sir Walter Buffalo down to 25mm every mow. Then I learned why that's a terrible idea, especially on heavy clay in SEQ. Here's what actually works.
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Sir Walter Buffalo Care Guide for SEQ
Sir Walter care on an established SEQ lawn: mowing, weather-based watering, feeding, weeds and gentle renovation, with lessons from heavy clay in Ipswich.