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Lawn Care Tips
Proper lawn maintenance plays a crucial part in any landscape design. A beautiful well maintained lawn can make the entire landscape look good, whereas a lawn that is not maintained can completely ruin it's beautify. Discussed below are a few important lawn care tips that will help you maintain a fine-looking lawn.
Choosing the Right Grass for Your Lawn
Lawn grass is available in lots of variations and the kind of grass you choose goes a long way in ensuring that your lawnmowers
is easy to maintain and serves its purpose. Here are a few basic questions to ask before deciding on the type of grass to go for:
- How will your lawn be used or for what purpose are you setting the lawn - for instance: Ornamental Landscaping, play area etc.
- What is the kind of budget can you allocate for the lawn
- How much time are you willing to spend on lawn maintenance
- How do you want you lawn to look like?
- What kind of climatic conditions do you face, like the amount of sun, dryness, wetness etc.
- What are the soil characteristics?
Mowing your lawn
Regular Mowing is required to ensure that your lawn portrays the best looks. But there are some important factors to keep in mind before you do that. For instance, it is important to ensure that the grass is not cut too low. Cutting the grass too low can hurt the grass and can permanently damage them. In addition low cut grass has the tendency to grow faster and will require more water leading to larger maintenance on your side. Given below are a few tips for mowing your lawn effectively:
- Avoid cutting the grass too short as this can damage the grass, inhibit a deeper root system from setting up and give rise to weeds.
- Different grasses have different heights at which they can grow best, so make sure you enquire about this from the vendor or your landscaping company. The ideal height of most grasses is 3 to 4 inches.
- Removing more than one-third of the grass leaf in a single cutting is not recommended
- Mow only on dry grass and not when the grass is wet
- Make sure you mower's blade is a new and sharp before starting a fresh moving session. Keeping several mowing blades at hand, helps.
- To ensure smoothness make sure you change the mower's oil once or twice during mowing season.
Watering your Lawn
Just like human beings, grasses have a tendency to adapt to their circumstances. This is why stressing out the grass to a moderate extent is a good way of making them stronger. For instance, you can make the grass roots penetrate the soil better by not watering frequently. Try not to water for a day or two and check the rooting depth. You will be amazed to find an increase. Better rooting will make your grass grow in a healthy manner. Here are some tips to keep in mind:
- The best time to water your lawn would be during the early hours of morning. Watering during this time will allow the water to reach the roots without evaporating. Mid afternoons may lead to water getting evaporated soon and watering at night times can give rise to the possibilities of diseases.
- While watering, make sure you spread the water homogeneously across the lawn without over flooding or missing certain areas/spots.
- If your lawn is placed on heavy slopes make sure that the water does not run-off. Several applications of water would be necessary for such surfaces to ensure adequate penetration.
- During summer season or drought conditions decide whether to water the lawn or let it go dormant. Letting the grass to go dormant and then watering again to green it up and again letting it go dormant is not a good practice.
- If your lawn is newly sodded avoid watering it frequently to ensure that the roots grip the soil perfectly.
The next part deals with lawn fertilization, weed control and irrigation.
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