Basic Lawn Care - Mowing, Scarifiers, Aeration, and Watering Tips
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Article by: Mark Falco The arrival of summer , Hibiscus Care heralds a time of increased wear and tear for the average garden , Books About Landscaping lawn. Children's yard , Gardening - An Expression games, barbecue parties, outdoor , The Guide to Cloudy Pool Water sports and generally more activity in the garden , Compost YES, Epsom Salts NO means your lawn , Bamboo Plant Information and Care is set to come in for something of a beating and without a little TLC is likely to start showing more than a little worse for wear. Stomp all over any living thing and it doesn't respond too kindly but with a little help, your lawn , Whack 'Em Back - Getting More Flowers by Pruning can remain looking great all through summer , Gardening Sentiments and beyond! Fertiziler For a lusher, healthier, faster-growing lawn , Choosing A Landscape Contractor you can't beat a bit of fertilizer. Test your soil , Landscape Lighting With Solar Outdoor Lighting Fixtures is a Great Way to Save Money on Decorating type and choose a fertilizer to compliment this for best results. Most lawns , How To Choose a Storage Shed will benefit from around three to four fertilizer applications through the year, with the first around a month before the start of the growinf season , Garden Gnomes Inspire Cult Following Worldwide to give your grass , How To Build A Waterfall a kickstart and then up to three more with approximately a two month gap in between applications can give good results. You can either spread the fertilizer by hand if you have a smaller lawn , Real Men Use Reel Mowers area to cover or use a specialist spreader tool , Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips for more even coverage, using a drop spreader for small lawns , Poly Tarps For Home and Garden: More Than Meets The Eye or a rotary/broadcase spreader for bigger areas. After fertilizing it is generally a good idea to water-in the fertilizer or plan , Whack 'Em Back - Getting More Flowers by Pruning on adding fertilizer before an expected rainfall unless otherwise stated in the usage instructions. The important thing with fertiliser is to follow the manufacturer , How to Water Your Houseplants Wisely guidelines and not be tempted to over-do it. An excessive application of fertiliser is not a good thing and can lead to fungus, over-growth and weakness. Keep to the guidelines and you'll get that lush, thick green grass , Care of Dendrobium Orchids you wanted. Watering If you live in a hot , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs climate or dry region, and particularly during the summer , Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips months then regular watering of your lawn , Garden Swing for Heart and Soul is important. The best time to water , Backpack Blowers a lawn , Care Business Owners - Don't Buy Yourself A Job is early in the morning or late in the afternoon to achieve the best results. Avoiding evening watering is advised as soaking grass , Patio Bar Chairs for Comfortable Outdoor and Poolside Seating over night can increase the risk of lawn diseases , Beauty With Indigenous Species and mid-day watering when the sun , Lawn Care Business Owners - Don't Buy Yourself A Job is hottest increases evaporation and water , Gardening Sentiments wastage. Excessive watering is also something to avoid and ensure if you use a sprinkler you do actually get out there and move it around rather than allowing large puddles to form whilst other regions of the lawn , Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips area remain dry. Too much surface lying water , Winter Injury to Trees can starve the roots , Gardening Sentiments of oxygen and lead to the same symptoms (leaf rolling) as lack of water. , Lilies - How and When to Divide and Fertilize It is important to know when to water , Care of Dendrobium Orchids rather than just watering because you think a lawn , Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit needs watering. There are a few basic tests you can do to know if your lawn , About Crocuses needs irrigation. Look for leaf rolling and curling and the slightly blue/purple tinge which comes when grass , Lawn Care Business Owners - Don't Buy Yourself A Job is being starved of moisture. , Backpack Blowers Also, try the foot print test. Stepping on a healthy , Shade Gardening When You Have No Shade lawn should see it spring , Real Men Use Reel Mowers back into position quickly but if your lawn , How To Build A Waterfall is slow to react then it's time to add more water. , Vegetable Garden Ideas Lawn Mowing The key thing to remember here is that the object of mowing a lawn , Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit is lawn , Choosing A Landscape Contractor "mowing" not lawn , Save Your Fish -- Heron-Proof Your Pond "scalping"! To take good care of your lawn , How to Water Your Houseplants Wisely you need to make sure you are mowing with sharp lawn , Garden Swing for Heart and Soul mower blades so you cut rather than rip at the grass , Give Your Plants the Finger and ensure you do not set the blades at too low a level as you do not want to cut it back lower than is recommended for your particular species of grass. , Garden Gnomes Inspire Cult Following Worldwide Cutting too low on a regular basis is the easiest way to do lasting damage to your lawn. , The Guide to Cloudy Pool Water If your lawn , Lattice Patio Covers has become too overgrown then do two or more passes with your mower , Floral Arrangements rather than trying to take it right down to a desirable length straight away and never cut grass , How To Build A Waterfall when it is wet. Grass , Bamboo Plant Information and Care clippings may be left or raked as you please if you do not have a lawn , Whack 'Em Back - Getting More Flowers by Pruning mower with a grass , Water Lilies - Pruning and Trimming collector. Left clippings do not automatically lead to thatch, this is only occurs when there is too much dead organic , Hibiscus Care matter to be broken down and a few clippings actually add nutrients back into the soil. , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses Edges are something lawn , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs mowers can not handle but a simple pair of long handled shears will make short work of tidying them up. Strimmers are a simple solution for cutting around obstacles such as trees , Give Your Plants the Finger and immovable garden , Landscape Lighting With Solar Outdoor Lighting Fixtures is a Great Way to Save Money on Decorating structures. Aerating Your Lawn Grass is a living thing and like all living things it flourishes better when it is able to breath easy and get easy access to food , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses and water. , Can Robotic Lawnmowers Save the World or at Least You Money? Aeration of your lawn , Weathervanes - Monitor your Wind Direction with Beauty! is important as it allows water, , Backpack Blowers oxygen and fertilizer to penetrate more easily through to the roots , About Crocuses and improves drainage. If your garden , Have Year Round Color by Planting for Birds is being regularly used then the ground will begin to suffer from soil , Hibiscus Care compaction. When this happens, drainage is reduced and it becomes more difficult for roots , Floral Arrangements to dig down deeper into the soil. , Bamboo Plant Information and Care The natural , Water Lilies - How and When to Divide and Fertilize activities of earthworms and other subterranean insects and wildlife , Attracting Birds to the Garden help break up the soil , Patio Bar Chairs for Comfortable Outdoor and Poolside Seating but compacted earth , Real Men Use Reel Mowers can always do with a helping hand. Basic lawn , Patio Bar Chairs for Comfortable Outdoor and Poolside Seating aeration is very simple to achieve with the help of a simple garden , ing - An Expression fork. Just drive the fork into the earth , Vegetable Garden Ideas at regular intervals to do the job. For bigger garden , The Protea Family (Proteaceae) areas or for more effective aeration you can buy or hire specialised lawn , Real Men Use Reel Mowers aeration tools , Care of Dendrobium Orchids which are basically spiked or bladed rollers either motorised or hand driven. An aerator should be used in the autumn , Lattice Patio Covers months to loosen compact soil , Lawn Care Business Owners - Don't Buy Yourself A Job after its summer , Gardening Sentiments beating. Dethatching and Scarification Scarifying or raking your lawn , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs to remove dead and decaying matter which may choke and hinder water , How to Grow Ornamental Grasses and nutrients reaching the soil , Vacation Proofing your Garden is an essential part of a good spring , Garden Swing for Heart and Soul and autumn , Floral Arrangements lawn maintenance routine. Raking removes thatch, the accumulation of dead and decaying organic , Garden Swing for Heart and Soul matter like leaves and old grass , Give Your Plants the Finger clippings from around the base of the grass , Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit stems. This scarification improves drainage and enables increased amounts of water , How To Choose a Storage Shed and air , Save Your Fish -- Heron-Proof Your Pond to penetrate down to the roots , About Crocuses as well as reducing the chances of lawn disease , About Crocuses occuring. Before detatching a lawn , Orchid Care - What The Root Tells Us you should ensure there is no moss growing , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (Part 2) Plant Needs there as this process will only help spread the moss around. Kill the moss first with a specialised moss killer found at good garden , The Guide to Cloudy Pool Water centers and then scarify the lawn. , Floral Arrangements Scarifying a lawn , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams may be performed manually by raking whilst for larger lawns , Vacation Proofing your Garden it might be recommended to use a power lawn , Chickens in Your Backyard for Fun or Profit scarifier machine which can be hired or bought for the purpose. Removing Worm Casts Worms are the gardener's best friend...unless your lawn , Landscape Lighting With Solar Outdoor Lighting Fixtures is a Great Way to Save Money on Decorating is your pride and joy. Worm casts are those unsightly piles of mud which appear on the surface of your lawn , Winter Injury to Trees and left to their own devices may encourage moss and weed , Books About Landscaping growth. Removal is simple during dry weather, , Whack 'Em Back - Getting More Flowers by Pruning just wait until they are dry and brush or rake them away but during prolonged wet periods you may just have to put up with them. Use of acidic fertilizers may discourage worms from coming to the surface but for most gardeners just consider worms are your friend, they help aerate the soil , How To Choose a Storage Shed and drag organic , Vacation Proofing your Garden matter from the soil , Can Robotic Lawnmowers Save the World or at Least You Money? surface into their burrows thus making the soil , A Leaf Blower Has More Uses Than You Think a richer growing environment. , About Crocuses Article copyright Mark Falco, webmaster of ukgardeningsupplies.co.uk where you can find lawn , The Guide to Cloudy Pool Water care and gardening , Vegetable Garden Ideas equipment including lawn , Attracting Birds to the Garden mowers, lawn , Poly Tarps For Home and Garden: More Than Meets The Eye scarifiers, garden , Water Lilies - Pruning and Trimming tools and lawn , Plastic Pond Liners care accessories , Water Gardens available for UK delivery. 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