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Aerating your Lawn..

Monday, November 17th, 2008

aerationLawn Aeration deals with taking out from your lawn those tiny soil plugs. Through aeration, you can have a healthy lawn that simply means that it has been provided with proper lawn care and maintenance. Thus, lawn aeration is very important to your lawn’s health. When aerating your lawn, you are giving your lawn best care that air could move freely into the soil. Usually, lawn aeration is done with a machine that has hollow tines or spoons mounted on a disk or drum.

There are a lot of factors that could promote a healthy lawn and one of them is that it can block compaction of soil that helps lessen the pore space within the soil that is closing the way of air in it. so soil could not have the air needed for the lawn to grow in good condition. Since Oxygen is the most important requirement for the grass roots to absorb more nutrients,water and it could hinder the growth of its roots. With proper aeration, it could lead a lot of excellent benefits for your lawn. The activity of your soil micro-organisms that decompose thatch will increase as well as the water,nutrients and oxygen in the soil will greatly improve. That is how essential the role of lawn aeration to your lawn care. Moreover, its rooting will grow more healthy and could trip off all pesticides and other lawn problems that could ruin the growth of your lawn.

5 Easy Steps to Lawn Care

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

lawn Aiming for a beautiful healthy lawn needs a lot of effort and strategy. Any kind of lawn care could be possible as long as you are doing the right thing for your lawn’s good health. Here are 5 easy steps for your lawn care guide that will help you yield good results:

1. Mow efficiently – This does not only require cutting of your grass to its required height but also depends on mowing at the right time of the year. In mowing your lawn, it should not be less than one-third of its height for the efficient absorption of the sun. This should consume the right amount of light from the sun that is needed by the grass to develop a healthy plant. After mowing, your mowed grass should be left on the lawn to decompose as fertilizer that would be best for your lawn.

2. Use a sharp blade – It is important for your lawn to use sharp blade when cutting grass so it will not tear grass that would make your grass unhealthy easy to catch diseases and difficult to fight off pests. Few days after mowing, check on your grass very well especially the tip of it. If you can see brown lines on its tips, then you should make a move to get rid of those unhealthy signs.

3. Regulate water supply – The right irrigation system could help you prevent lawn problems especially the growth of pests on your lawn. Too much water would not do good for your lawn. On the average,grasses only need weekly water supply of 1-1.5 inches. that would just be enough for the clay to moistened, 4-6 inches below the surface and 8-10 inches for sandy soil. Rain Guage is the most advised in determining water supply during rain also to regulate the proper amount.

4. Keep fertilizers and pesticides at normal levels – Overfeeding your lawn with chemicals is very harmful. Be always prepared most especially during seasons of spring, summer, early fall & after the first fall be sure to provide it with balanced amount of fertilizer.. then on drought, you can skip summer feeding but not fall feeding.

5. Prevent, rather than cure – In Lawn care, you can also apply the statement that says prevention is better than cure. Regular feeding of your lawn could save its life from bugs and pests as well as diseases this could also help repair bare spots and you can use right herbicides to help you control and manage growth of weeds.

Maintaining proper care for your lawn is this easy but it also requires your proper attention for you to make things right in whatever strategy for the best of your lawn care.

Tips to control weeds from your lawns..

Monday, November 10th, 2008

weeds Weeds are also plants that just grow in wrong places like that you see growing with your lawn if not properly monitored or maintained. They are called the native plants since they could well adopt in the environment that they grow. For longer years, their seeds could lie dormant in the soil although sometime they could also be medicinal or decorative. Thus, this must be controlled to have a healthy green lawn you longed for.

Below are the 5 tips on how to reduce weeds in your lawn

  1. Correct Mowing – Maintaining an appropriate height for your lawn could help you brush away the weeds that grow in your lawn.
  2. Mowing Frequency – Mowing regularly could remove flowing seed parts of weeds growing to make it harder for them to grow on the next crop and will help you achieve your go encourage al for for a healthy lawn.
  3. Soils play a factor in weed control – soils that are wet, dry and compacted, these mostly the growth of weeds since the grass struggles on these kind of soil.
  4. Soil Fertility is a factor – Soils that are poor and unfertilized are more prone to weeds growth. Turfgrasses do require some nutrients for best growth.
  5. Practicing good lawn maintenance – this is the most recommended method for weed control for your lawn care.

The 5 R’s of a Natural Healthy Lawn to remember..

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

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1. Replace – Means to replace the use of chemicals or pesticides for your lawn care instead, it is more safe to use the natural steps.
2. Reduce – The frequency or the amount of water being used should be reduced into an appropriate amount that is needed by your lawn. Water is considered one of its basic needs but should also be controlled and not to exceed from its required amount needed.
3. Recycle – This is not only good for garbages that needs to be recycled but also applicable to lawns. By leaving grass clippings on your lawn it could serve as its natural fertilizer.
4. Re-think – Always do a multiple times of thinking when it comes to your expectations with your lawns you might be frustrated and will end up disappointed. Just do the right thing in caring for your lawn and everything will bear its fruit..
5. Relax – and enjoy the diversity in your healthy lawn! It would make a difference in your life when you see that you are having a healthy lawn and that simply needs a healthy lawn care too.

Lawn Calendar

Monday, October 27th, 2008

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 Lawn calender will help you remind of what specific care would fit your lawn also what should be done and be avoided for a certain month or season of the month. Below is the calendar for you to be able to monitor your lawn care in a monthly basis according to its specific season.

 

 January until March – This months are considered lazy months for lawn care so this would be the best time to check on your mower to prepare it for your lawn. When lawn is water logged or frozen, avoid walking into it. And the time for raking up all rubbish on your lawn is on the middle of March, the time to make your first cut,because this could be the dry season, but do not cut it too much to avoid damage on lawn. worms might damage your lawn. If problem with your lawn becomes worst, you can cure it with derris.

Spring – The start of Lawn Care calendar. It is important that during spring, make your mowing frequency strong and improve more its quality and make your lawn’s cut height normal but make it gradually when cutting your lawn to help it adjust to its new height. Then an application of a spring lawn feed that contains a long lasting nitrogen fertilizer would be a good feed for a healthy lawn. A weed killer is also necessary for a lawn to fight all weeds that could harm or hinder a healthy growth, mid spring is the best time for applying. For moss problems on lawns,choose a good brand of lawn sand then dispatch all dead moss.

 Summer- Mow your lawn on a normal cutting height recommended for summer. Do that once or twice a week as required for you lawn. Weeds have been treated during spring but to make sure no weeds have survived, apply another weed spring treatment. Treat those with spot treatment.and try to soak your lawn on water very well at least once or twice most especially during dry season.

September - During this month, It will be the season of autumn so for your lawn’s good health, you have to decrease the frequency of mowing. And worms might attack your lawn this time that should be treat. Then follow it up with aerating and scarifying your lawn this would be the best month for a more healthy lawn.

Lawn Care Do’s and Dont’s

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Best lawn care tips to share..In this video, bear in the mid the important tips for you to maintain a healthy lawn and most especially the dont’s for lawn care. Because we are sometimes unaware of proper lawn care.

8 simple steps to maintain a healthy lawn..

Friday, October 17th, 2008

healthy1. 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.