8 simple steps to maintain a healthy lawn..
1. Get to know your grass - Apply proper care for your grass. 6 weeks during spring is its growth rate so it needs to be fertilized to provide your grass healthy nutrition also, water and mowing would be best too. The best time to fertilize your lawn is during the last fall because spring would not be best for the fertilization to combine with rain that could make your lawn prone to disease.
2. Know your mowing timetable – One should know the proper mowing for lawn, its preferred height of 3” cut to set on the mower blade due to the fact that its major nutrition comes in the tip to give more food to the roots that could promote healthy growth.
3. Get a proper watering schedule – Water is one of the basic needs of lawns thus, maintaining water supply to lawns would do best to attain your goal in setting up a green healthy lawn. That is why it is always best to water your lawns on proper schedule, most lawns will benefit from an inch to and inch and a half of water every 7 to 10 days and not just depend on rain for constant water supply.
4. Maintain your mower blade – Mowing is another important need and trimming your grass with an unmanaged mower blade would not do good for your lawn that could cause water loss and prone to disease too. And this will result to a brown looking rather than a healthy green lawn you aimed for. Spare time to manage your blade well before mowing your lawn.
5. Applying lawn care products - There are some commonly known weeds that do grow on our lawns yearly especially when it has a history of crabgrass. One common weed is this crabgrass which is popularly known as the annual weed this appears on lawns due to some situations that affects lawn appearance and growth.
6. Pest Control – Preventive actions should be taken when we notice problems affecting our lawn. Having some resistant plant would best help cure pests growing on lawns. If this is ignored, it will create a big problem resulting to a damaged and unhealthy lawn. Biological or mechanical treatment for this is needed, Pesticides are the last solution to this problem due to its toxic nature.
7. Get to know your soil pH - Determining your soil’s pH is important because this could help plants grow healthy. Get few patches of your soil and have its pH checked.
8. Get some renovation done – When renovatingyour lawn, try to make it on a right time with the right weather condition so you would not disturb its growth most especially during spring when weeds are very rampant instead make it during summer or early fall when there is control of weeds growth.
