My younger brother has just left school and he is, at the moment, looking for a job in Grounds Maintenance. He is interested in Grounds Maintenance because he has always loved tinkering around in the garden and he also loves being outdoors. We as a family are all agreed that Grounds Maintenance is the ideal job for my brother and we fervently hope that he will be able to find gainful employment in this area. However, with things as they are at the moment we are beginning to worry. Out of all of his friends who left school at the same time as him, only one of them has managed to secure a job doing exactly what he wants to do. We all know that times are hard with the current financial climate and I am even on the verge of trying to persuade my brother to go to college for a year or two in the hope that things will change for the better in the meantime. If he does this, my reasoning is that he will have more qualifications to offer a prospective employer and he will also be competing in a more favourable job market.

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There are a number of different diseases that can affect lawns and your lawns might be suffering form a certain type of grass disease as we speak. You might have noticed rings in the lawn that are orange or yellow in colour and are wondering how they appeared and why they did so? This type of disease is called take-all patch and it kills off the bents in the grass leaving the centre covered in weeds. If you have applied lime recently to counteract the effects of acid soil then this could be the cause of the problem. Other types of grass disease can be just as unsightly and dollar spot can appear in clusters. The patches caused by this disease are brownish-yellow and the sizes range from 1-2 inches in diameter. Snow mould is a type of grass disease that can appear after prolonged periods of snow cover. It leaves the grass with areas of grey looking patches and all types of grass can be stricken with this ailment. Its one thing to recognize certain types of grass disease and it`s another thing knowing what to do with the lawn to make it better. Help and advice can be found through maintenance programmes and they will teach gardeners everything that they need to know about how to look after their lawns properly.