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Are you familiar with all the benefits of gardening?

Doctors and health professionals have long regarded gardening as having huge benefits, mental and physical. There’s evidence to suggest that gardening makes people feel good and enables better sleeping too.

Mental benefits

Gardening can also make you feel better in your mind by reducing stress. It is the whole act of connecting with nature that can make you forget your worries and just concentrate on the task at hand. Although many people say that weeding is a painful chore, it can actually be quite a therapeutic activity, as you clear the garden space and create a healthy growing environment.

Associated with, among the benefits of gardening, is the act of just slowing down. You can’t and shouldn’t just whizz around your garden. You have to adjust to the pace of nature and kind of be absorbed by it. Think about it this way – plants grow at their own pace. So we must also go at a slower pace as we garden.

Spiritual and creative satisfaction

Likewise, we cannot force growth and speed it up. Green and growing things require us to be patient and wait until we see those shoots appearing. And if we don’t do things that are right for the plants, we probably won’t see any results at all.

Also high among the benefits of gardening is the creative satisfaction that it brings us. Whether it’s designing the shape of gardens or garden beds or planning our planting, we are making and creating something unique, which will develop, grow and change and which will be unique to us. In this way, it is very similar to creating a work of art.

So think about all those benefits of gardening and if you’re one of these people who says they don’t have a green thumb, maybe it’s time to think again!

 

Lawns are not just lawns. There is such a wide variety of lawnturf available that it is important to understand the characteristics that are going to be the most important for your lawn.

Start by asking yourself a few key questions:

1. Is my lawn going to be taking a lot of punishment? Do I want it to be tough and resilient, or is it just for looks, ie an ornamental lawn?
2. How is it going to be mowed? With a ride-on, a motor mower or a ‘push’ lawn mower?
3. Will have to withstand the treatment  kids or dogs dish out?

Answer these questions and you should have an inkling of the type of lawn that you’re after. If you need a hardy lawn with grass such as is used on football or rugby pitches, you might want to look at something like a ryegrass.

If, on the other hand, you want a general purpose lawn, maybe take a look at a Premium Landscape lawnturf.  The advantages of this grass are that it maintains a great colour all year round, it is strong,  hardwearing and it will take the punishment dished out by kids and pets. It’s actually a good choice for the harsh Irish climate.

If you are looking for more of an aesthetic lawn that is good to look at but which won’t get much wear, you need to look at an ornamental lawnturf. These grasses are finer in texture and have exceptional shoot density, meaning that they are suitable for close mowing. These fine-leafed grasses also look really great all year round.

Or if you don’t want to maintain the lawn so often, take a look at Low Grow lawnturf. This can be laid in any season, even winter, providing it isn’t frosty.  It is resistant to drought and shade and it combines quality with low maintenance.

If you’re used to spend lots of time in your garden and you will be mowing once a week in the warmer months, you’d be best advised to choose a cultivated lawn turf which contains a mix of rye, meadow grass and fescue. This will take mowing right down to around 15mm.