The Lawn Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
The Lawn Maintenance Tips
By Joel F Mornigstar
The lawn is what anyone sees when they look at your home. Almost
everybody is familiar with the idea of what "curb appeal"
is in reference to how someone makes a snap judgment about your
home by how it appears.
It takes only a moment for someone to decide if your home meets
their standards based only on what they see from the outside.
Making sure that the lawn is well-maintained is one of the simplest
ways to make sure the curb appeal of your home makes people feel
welcomed.
While that can sound easy enough, sometimes getting the back
and front lawn to look beautiful, immaculate and attractive can
be a daunting task, especially if there have been some problems
with the health of your lawn recently.
Eight Tips To Help Maintain Your Lawn To Be The Best In The
Street
Below is a collection of lawn care tips and suggestions that
can help you cultivate a lawn that draws people to your home,
welcomes them, and gives your curb appeal a real boost.
Tip One: Learn about the condition of the
lawn soil. It is easy to get the soil tested. Just contact the
agriculture extension agency in your town. This simple test will
be able to quickly identify the components of your soil and will
report anything that is lacking so you can remedy the problem.
Tip Two: Have a regular lawn maintenance
routine that includes fertilizing three to five times every year.
Make sure this is done on a regular schedule and is the right
kind of food for the grass in your garden lawn. The extension
agency can also help you with information in this regard as it
relates to your local area.
Tip Three: When undertaking lawn mowing
during the heat of the summer, cut it at the maximum height your
lawn mower allows. This helps keep the grass from drying out as
fast and even provides shade to the ground which helps prevent
the loss of moisture.
This will help conserve water and it will also help the lawns
to crowd the weeds out. During the cooler and wetter times of
the year you can set the lawn mower to cut lower according to
your preferences.
Tip Four: Water about one to one-and-a-half
inches once a week. When you water briefly every day, you are
encouraging your lawn to develop a shallow root system. Watering
only once a week helps develop nice deep roots which can better
withstand hot, dry summer weather.
Tip Five: Aerate
at least once or twice every year. This also helps promote lawns
with deep root systems and helps the water and lawn food to get
past the surface and down to the roots where it does the most
good. Aerating also helps undo the effects of soil compacting,
which is a particular problem if you use a riding lawn mower to
help with your lawn maintenance.
Tip Six: Keep the blades of the mower good
and sharp. Dull blades actually rip the ends of the grass blades
and cause a ragged look and contribute to browning at the ends.
Also, you should do your lawn mowing in different directions each
time you mow. This helps avoid ruts and soil compaction problems.
Tip Seven: Watch for signs of dead areas.
Such dead patches can be an indication of an insect problem or
disease that is attacking your home and garden lawns. When you
see this, you should not treat the problem until you know the
cause. Your local extension agency will be a great help in this
case also.
Tip Eight: Control weeds with the use of
quality herbicides. You can do this separately or look for a fertilizer
that also contains weed control components.
While this is not an exhaustive list of lawn care tips, it should
be sufficient to help you immediately make some improvements to
the overall look and health of the lawn area that is such an important
part of your home and garden.
As you diligently apply these lawn maintenance tips you will
be able to enjoy your front yard more and at the same time know
that the curb appeal has improved as well.
About the Author:
Joel F Morningstar has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including Front
Yard Landscape, Stone
Walkway, Coffee
Plant, Miniature
Fruit Trees, Pepper
Plant, Lawn
Swing, Fast
Growing Trees, Big
Backyard, Decorate
A House, Swing
Set Backyard, Backyard
Fountain, Home
Decor Furnishings, Outdoor
Decor, Patio
Garden, Backyard
Landscaping, Furniture,
Lawn
And Garden, Design
Landscaping, Lawn
Care, The
Landscape, Lawn
Garden.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Little Known Landscaping Facts....
Will a lawn increase the value and curb appeal of my home?
A great lawn can add tremendous curb
appeal and value to your home. It will make the features
of your home stand out and if you are looking to sell
your home, it is one of the first details that
potential buyers will notice. There is nothing
quite like a well manicured lawn and carefully
trimmed hedges that add immense immediate value
to a property.
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