Archive for November, 2008

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

lawn care

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.