Review of a turf blog

Mr. Robbie Commens’ turf blog is from Australia and is part advice for home owners on turf and advertisement for the sod producing company, Coastal Turf.

Mr. Commens has a Bachelor degree in Applied Science and Agronomy from the University of Queensland in Australia.

Articles on the blog include subjects about

• Lawn grub control.

Offers a link to a product called “RICHGRO Lawn Beetle and Grub Killa”, that is a good product used to control of lawn beetles.

• How to lay turf.

This article offers tips on how to prepare the site that is to be sodded. Tips include measuring the site to order the correct amount of sod, how to handle and protect the topsoil, laying the sod and finally how to help the newly laid sod in its establishment period.

• How turf handles the summer heat



Mr. Commens gives his customers advice on how to get a successful turf, from site preparation and laying the turf to post installation. To further helps his customers decide on a turf, there is a table with environmental conditions associated with a matching turf, to help choose appropriate turf species for the home lawn.



Coastal Turf:

Coastal Turf was established in 1993 and is one of 152 sod farming companies in Queensland, only 2nd to the 155 sod farmers in New South Wales. It’s estimated that sod farming in Queensland takes up 2520 hectares. The size of Queensland itself is 1.85 million km2 or 457 million acres.

Coastal Turf produces a variety of sods with species such as

• Queensland Blue Couch (Digitaria didactyla)

• Bermuda (Cynodon dactylon) called “Wintergreen” in Australia

• Soft Leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaprum secundatum)

• Palmetto Buffalo (Stenotaprum secundatum spp)

• Sweet Smother Grass (Dactyloctenium australe)

• ‘Empire’ Zoysia Grass (Zoysia japonica spp)

All grasses produced are warm season grasses, as one would expect in Queensland. On the site under “Turf Varieties”, info is listed about each species, including its texture, its tolerance to sun and shade its origin and more.



Links to follow for more info on turf in Australia;

• Turf Australia

• Turf Queensland

• Research on turf, by HAL (Horticulture Australia Limited)



Pictures are courtesy of Mr. Robbie Commens