Lawn Care Tips and Information
Article by Paul Zayer
Home lawn care could be as simple or complex as you make it. Before deciding to put in various varieties and colors of exotic plant life it is important to figure out just how much weekend time you could spend taking care of these exotic plants, or in lieu of your own loving care, if you can pay to have a professional landscape team come around to take regular care of your plants.
Lawn Tip 1
Some of the most valuable nutrients can be added to your lawn simply by leaving the clipped grass pieces on the lawn. Some of you might think that adding grass clippings or mulched branches and leaves will add or promote thatch to the lawn, but this is not true. The more nutrients the better; for the most part, and lawn clippings are best suited to nourish the living lawn.
Lawn Tip 2
Each time you mow try not to mow the entire backyard, but rather 1/3 of the overall yard. Also, cover a different 1/3 of the yard each time you mow. For example, if you begin at a 3 o’clock position in your yard and go to a 7 o’clock position one time, start at 5 or 6 and go to 11. Keep the mowing pattern varied and you’ll have a healthier lawn.
Lawn Tip 3
It’s much easier to get a handle on new weeds than when they’re older, more established and just plain harder to remove.
Lawn Tip 4
Most lawns need about 1-2 inches of water each week. By watering the lawn early in the morning (4-9AM) it doesn’t have a chance to encourage mold or fungus like nighttime watering does. This also keeps the sun from burning up all the dampness, thus robbing your lawn and your pocketbook.
Lawn Tip 5
The use of commercial fertilizer certainly can be overdone while more natural nutrients like those from compost or grass clippings really can’t be overdone. You run the risk of poisoning your lawn in the long term if you overdo the recommended doses of fertilizer for your lawn.
Lawn Tip 6
Beside cutting grass better and more consistently, powerful and efficient lawn mowers have lower gas emissions, which is better for the environment. Of course a manual or electric mower is even better for the environment, but there are other performance issues that come along with these other mower types that you must consider yourself before making those decisions.
An herbal lawn is just what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb rather than a type of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many various types of herbs. The challenge really is to find an herb that can handle important foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are different varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this perfect middles ground.
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