Spring season is once again here and its time to take a look at your lawn for a double effort of taking care for it inorder to avoid diseases since on this season, lawns will be more attractive to fungus and other bugs. Therefore, this time you should be very much aware of what’s going on with your lawn. Check out for signs of diseases and fungus in your lawn. When you see mushrooms showing up, molds or mildew, then you should be alarmed and take necessary actions to block those diseases that would start to ruin your lawn.
These spring lawn diseases that you usually see is the result of decaying organic materials or too much moisture from your lawn. You couldn’t get away with heavy rains during spring but to help prevent them, you can fix drainage or the debris in your soil. Then, you can also dig through the dead roots of your trees and always aerate. And try to get those mushrooms you see growing within your lawn so through that you would be able to block their growth and not spread in your lawn.
And finally, Do not over fertilize your lawn as they may push growth of fungus more since other excess nutrients may help them grow and spread out more in your lawn. Always check labels before you fertilize.
In this video, you will learn how to continue to take good care of your lawn even when fall is coming after the season of summer. So that you will be very much prepared on what are the proper things to do to maintain your lawn’s health.
Taking care of your lawn is the chore that most of you consider one of the very important thing to do at home. Since this helps beautify and create a good ambiance within every home. Lawn care tips that we always bare in mind is not just enough to learn but also the mistakes that we often neglect or caught unaware of it. Just to freshen things up, here are some lawn care mistakes that we should avoid.
* Wrong schedule of fertilizing and watering of lawn - There is always a right time to water and fertilize your lawn. But this will also depend on which area you belong as well as the season and weather condition in your place. But, the most required time to water lawn should be done early in the morning for the grass to absorb it thoroughly and so your grass would not remain its moist for long compare to watering it on night time which most of us do especially when we are working during daytime. Same goes with fertilizing, it should have the right timing and schedule depending on the climate and area you have.
* Cutting lawn very short – Usually when we have a busy schedule everyday, we use to come up to an idea of cutting the grass in our lawn too short for us to have a longer period of break till we mow them again. But it is not a healthy for the grass to cut it more than 1/3 of grass blade this will make them weak and will result to unhealthy growth.
* Ignored mulch importance – Mulching plays an important role in lawns since this makes lawn grow healthy. It provides nutrients and blocks pests that would invade lawns.
* Mistakes in Using seed and sod – When making a new lawn, one should decide which method to use either seeding or sodding depending on its advantages or main purpose to your lawn. Sodding prevents soil erosion and seeding helps fills bare spots from your lawn.
* The use of powder and organic products – Powder products is less expensive compared to organic products but this has the tendency not to stay within your lawn because can easily be blown. While organic products could be penetrated within your lawn provided this is time consuming and could produce longer results.
1. Buffalo Grass – This kind of grass requires only less maintenance and this could tolerate drought.
2. Bahiagrass – this soil is best for those acidic and very sandy types of soil.
3. St. Augustine Grass – this is a very quick growing grass, and its roots grow deep.
4. Zoysia Grass – this is the most elegant grass type, also has restance for drought and very flexible type.
5. Bermuda Grass - This type of grass could very much fight all diseases, and could grow well even on drought or cold season since it could tolerate both season. And this grass spread fast.
6. Bluegrass - flexible to any damages type of grass and most common among cool season grasses. They spread evenly and good for bare spots since they tend to fill it in.
7. Red Fescue – This kind is under cool season grasses too and this is only good for cool places and in shaded area.
8. Ryegrass – This type of grass is only good for one season. They develop fast and best for dampand cool area.
9. Tall Fescue - This type of grass grown in during the season of fall and spring that this helps in the lawn to be free of weeds thus lawn could grow healthy.
10. Fine Fescue – This has the best skill that could even grow in dry shaded area which is very impossible to imagine. But is very much stable.
- 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.
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Taking care of your lawn is the chore that most of you consider one of the very important thing to do at home. Since this helps beautify and create a good ambiance within every home. Lawn care tips that we always bare in mind is not just enough to learn but also the mistakes that we often neglect or caught unaware of it. Just to freshen things up, here are some lawn care mistakes that we should avoid.
1. Buffalo Grass – This kind of grass requires only less maintenance and this could tolerate drought.
- 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:
