01/04/2026
✨Lawn & Garden Tips ✨
Welcome to April, the second month of Autumn
Camden Mowing loves creating beautiful spaces.
We're also passionate about mowing and gardening and will share tips on the 1st of every month to help you in the lawn and garden.
For your lawn;
💪 You haven't had to do a lot lately other than mow, mow, mow to look like a world be**er in the lawn condition stakes. We've had such good conditions the last few months. With good and timely mowing, lawns are looking green and lush for this time of the year.
⚖️ Autumn can definitely give you a taste of warm and cold seasons. We saw a 33 degree max day in March and a 17 degree day with snow falling within 3 hour drive of our area. Comparing to the last 3 years, we've had 50% of the total yearly rainfall in the first 3 months! Add in the heat and humidity, no wonder everything has been growing like crazy lately.
🤫 The grass should slow up shortly though, choose your mowing height carefully, don't go cutting it too short especially if your lawn sees less sun and more shade in the cooler months.
🥳 Surprisingly I haven't seen that much damage to lawns from grubs this year despite the perfect conditions for them, perhaps they all got flooded out or everybody is treating for them.
🐐Fuel saving tip in the lawn mowing space that comes to mind given how fast the grass has been growing and the cost of fuel at the moment - perhaps call in the goats!
In the garden;
🌳 Everything is growing like they are on supplements lately and with the fuel price situation one way to reduce your fuel spend in the garden maintenance stakes especially if you have large areas to maintain is to apply foliar growth retardants to your plants. These will slow down the growth of your plants reducing the need for trimming. Alternatively, check out your local power equipment store and see their ever improving electric range of equipment.
🧐 Like your lawn, carefully consider how you trim your hedges now. Things will/should (fingers crossed) start to slow down soon and if you do any heavy cutbacks you could be looking at it this way for a while. If things have crept out on you, you may opt for a light trim now and a heavy cutback at the start of spring.
🪻Plant something purple. It’s a beautiful colour and there so many nice purple plants all year round — lavender, jacaranda, iris, hydrangea, society garlic, agapanthus, petunias, wisteria and at the moment salvias and tibouchinas are beautiful.
🌞 April is not only a nice name but a great month of the year for planting. The soil is still warm, plants can take before things get too cool, the heat of the summer is gone and you don't have to keep as much water up to things to get them started. For some nice added winter colour get planting now.
Check you’ve got all your winter gardening artillery in supply ready to go. Secateurs, branch pruners/loppers, gloves, rakes, blower, vacuum, wheelbarrow, shovel, mattock, chainsaw and winter yard workwear to name a few depending on your yard requirements.
🐣 Prepare your garden for the kids for the annual Easter egg hunt.
🌱 Lastly, Rosemary is great in cooking and also a symbol of remembrance for Anzac Day this month if you have some in your garden.
I hope the Easter Bunny is very generous to you all 🐰
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Cheers,
Jamie Job
Proud local business owner