- Summer lawn treatment is necessary since the heat is being absorbed by your lawn and this needs special care to help you maintain a health green lush lawn. Here are the two parts of summer lawn treatment:

1. Summer Treatment - When we say summer the first thing that comes our mind is heat and this doesn’t only being felt by human but also by plants and lawns around us. That is why a special treatment is needed to preserve their health and life. One thing needed by your lawn is the granular treatment- this kind of medication gives out enough potassium needed by the lawn and plants and then this also controls the release of nitrogen as this could shield the lawn from drought of summer and diseases without any bad effect on them.

Other problems that might encounter by your lawn is Yellow Nutsedge this is a warm season perennial weed. This is very hard to control because the plants has this small root tubers that when removed, tubers will remain in there and develop or grow new plants, that would take a lot of herbicide applications to successfully manage the Yellow Nutsedge.

The control of the post emergent crabgrass is also essential this could be ruin up on rainy days this allows seeds to develop when weather warms up then we can see common spotted spurge that should be treated.

2. Late Summer Treatment – This is a continues treatment of lawns and plants that is caused by summer heat and stress. As this is the season where turfgrass plants do recover and is trying to freshen up as well as its leaf blades and the roots. Then the fertilizer will help boost its growth for a full recovery also, all weeds and insects will be managed well to protect the lawn and plants and maintain its good health.

Summer is here and most of you is trying to maintain their lawn to look healthy and survive the summer’s heat. During this season, you need to double your effort in caring for your lawn to overcome summer’s heat effect on it. Here are some steps to guide you:

- Mowing is one of the most important step to do for your lawn to help them grow strong to keep your it away from weeds and pests that is trying to invade in your lawn. Moreover, it can also help keep its moisture well.

Mowing is best done when your grass is dry since it would not be a healthy habit to mow when its
wet or during rainy days. But there would also be an exception for this if heavy rains do happen
almost everyday where you couldn’t mow your grass according to your designated schedule.

- Know the ideal height of mower height. Mow every week and do not wait for your grass to grow tall before you decide to mow it. But don’t cut it too short since it would not be good for your grass, its roots system might be too flat or hollow.

Also, you should learn how to properly maintain your mower because mowers that are not very well sharpened, could cause some problem with your turfgrass that’s one rule of thumb to remember.

- Summer means hot season so it is always important to keep your soil cool and that is through the use of mulch to retain moisture to your grass to keep it cool. This is applied at the top front of the soil for protection also, mulch could protect your grass from weeds and stop weed germination.

In addition, Mulch do also help protect the shrubs and trees this is very helpful to lawn too especially during the season of summer so your lawn could freshen up even in this hot season.

Every gardener would always want what is best for their garden,yard or lawn and that is their main secret on how they take care of them by heart. But in caring for your lawn, one should not just be concern mainly on the health of the lawn but in choosing the right tools to be used for it too. You can visit your nearest tool care equipment store to check out best tools that would contribute to promote healthy growth for your lawn..

The mulching mower equipment would be the first on the list as this will help you eliminate weeds and the fallen leaves on your yard and will keep you less worry of grass clippings. Another important thing for your lawn is a good irrigation system this could also help in maintaining a healthy green lawn. An automated irrigation is important for your lawn to make sure water is conserved and is used up properly and would not be too much since it would not be good for your lawn.

Leaf blower would also contribute to your lawn’s health since it can do multi tasks they could eliminate autumn leaves as well as blow snow away during winter season and could also serve as sweep to clean out driveway.

You must know and be careful always when choosing the right tools for your lawn as these also play an important role with regards to lawn care. Choosing the right tool would promote good health for your lawn.

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1. Set an effective pH levels in your soil- Soil pH has an effect on the availability of nutrients needed by your soil for a healthy growth. 6.5 pH level is the basic or minimum amount needed by turf grasses so if its below the required pH, that simply means that you need to add up lime and if it reaches around 7.o then that is the sign that sulfur content is too small.

2. Your grass cycle – Always remember to leave grass clippings in your lawn after you mow for the nutrients to be be again absorbed by your grass.

3. Putting on pre-emergents – Spring season is the perfect time to eliminate those unwanted grasses such as goosegrass,crabgrass to stop them from spreading into your lawn as this might cause problem to hinder healthy growth of your lawn.

4. Check your thatch level – layer of grass that is tightly bound on roots and the outer layer of living grass.The cause of too much thatch is when you excessively fertilize and overwatering of your grass. It should be watered according to its needed amount only as well as with fertilizing.

5. Watch out for Bugs and Pests – try to examine your lawn regularly especially when there are brown spots. You may not be aware that your lawn has already been invaded with diseases.

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On this season of spring, you should expect that your lawn is susceptible to diseases primarily lawn fungus. The presence of mushrooms patches in your lawn, mildews or even molds. So, you should be aware on how to prevent these cases..

- try to clean up your lawn, eliminate snow to prevent those fungus due to excessive snow. Usually you can see snow molds in lawns when they melt in the ground. That is why it is best to clean them up in your lawn before the disease spreads out.

- Avoid too much moist in your yard to prevent mushrooms from growing within it. This usually happens when some organic things decayed in the area. Also, fix drainage problems in your area that way, you can prevent fungus from living within your lawn. Also, eliminate those dead plants and tree from your lawn to stop diseases from growing and spread all throughout your yard.

- Finally, fertilize your lawn very well according to your type of soil or grass and try to follow instructions correctly since too much fertilizer could make your lawn be more attractive to lawn fungus. It should follow the right amount of fertilizer that your lawn need.

The season of spring is here and we are researching some tips on how to start caring for our lawn and other techiques we have to do to preserve the health of our yard. This video speaks about how to care for our lawn specifically fertilizing our grass to prevent weeds and those common lawn diseases.

Helminthosporium Leaf Spot and Melting Out Disease – The disease that occurs usually on cool and moist weather. Frequent rain and High Humidity will trigger the development of disease in your lawn and in some cool season grasses this helminthosporium leaf spot is the major problem that is commonly experienced in grasses especially with those who has kentucky bluegrass or ryegrass. And the bermuda type of grass will also suffer the most under warm season grasses.

Usually, its first symptoms is the leaf spot where you can see tiny purple colored spots on your grass blade may it be 1/32 to ¼ inch that will also depend on the kind of grass you have. Then as the spot enlarged the center portion then changes color it turns into tan while the edges outside will still be purple. Then the melting out period This happens depending on the mode of your surroundings may it become dry for the disease to disappear then the grass will start to grow. Otherwise the grass will turn from yellow to orange loosing its life.

Spring Dead Spot – The most
dangerous diseasethat could cause heavy damage to your grass especially with bermuda grass. A fungi commonly known in U.S. as Leptosphaeria Korrae and Ophiospharella herpotricha. These fungi usually attack a full-blown bermuda grass lawns. Those grasses that are weak and does not have enough nutrients to fight diseases are very much prone to it. This kind of disease will start to invade during fall when the soil cools up to 80 degrees by that time the disease will start to grow to attack its roots.

You will notice that your grass is sick when it is becoming dull and has patches and looks weak. This symptoms will become more clear when spring comes the growth of the disease will tend increase rapidly.

Red Thread and Pink Patch Diseases – This two diseases frequently appear at the same time. This usually affects grasses like kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass, bentgrass etc.. This is the easieast to detect in lawns as this creates a bright pink color and become reddish fungus in a thread like look. During moist cool morning, the fungus invade into the grass with this pink colored gelatin known as mycelium. They strike into the grass when there is no enough nitrogen as they could easily grow in a moist, cool area within your lawn

Powdery Mildew – When this occurs in your lawn, you will notice that your grass looks powdery as if there is a powder being applied to it. You have to be alarmed as this is the disease that develops in light or heavy shade. This is very common to kentucky bluegrass and in fescue as well especially when temperature is in 60 to 70 degrees in humid weather. Unlike other diseases,this does not really attack on roots. However,the powder thing you noticed in your grass could block the sunlight that for the photosynthesis to go through it an would make your grass look dull and worst is that they could die too.