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.

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 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.

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.

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.

One constant concern in caring for our lawns is the presence of bugs, insects, and pests. This is a common problem, and it requires that the lawn should be periodically checked for bugs and pests.

Here are the top 7  lawn pests and insects that can cause some damage to your lawn:

1. Armyworm: Armyworm larvae go from place to place and feed on the shoots of the grass. They eat at night and sometimes on cloudy days, but they usually hide int he thatch layer during the day. They eat the grass as soon as they are hatched from their eggs. They also move as a group, which makes it imperative to eliminate them as soon as you spot some to stop their spread.

2. Bluegrass Bill Bugs: Simply known as the Bill Bug, this pest feed in the roots, rhizomes, and shoots of the grass. The Billy Bug larvae feed into the stems where there is moisture, and it is here when they cause great damage to the grass. The adults only cause minor damage as compared to the larvae. The larvae are usually hatched and appear in late May and June.

3. European Chafer: The larvae of this species feed on the roots and rhizomes in midsummer. During this time, the grass aren’t able to regenerate well and brown patches will appear.  As they grow (with one year life cycle) they will move to swarm in the trees.

4. Japanese Beetle: The larvae also feed on the roots and rhizomes in the summertime, causing brown patches to appear on the grass.  The adult Japanese Beetle feeds on fruit and on shrubs.

5. June Beetle: The larvae also feed on the roots and rhizomes in the summertime. It is larger than the other larvae pests and has an irregular life cycle. The adult June Beetle feeds on foliage and on shrubs. You can see them at night flying around lights.

6. Hairy Cinch Bug: This bug drinks the juice s from the grass, thus giving the grass irregular yellow or brown patches. The Hairy Cinch Bugs, or Nymphs, first appear in May, then a second generation appears in September.

7. Sod Webworm: The Sod Webworm larvae feed on the shoots of the grass, eating the grass down to soil level. They eat at night. The moths hide in constructed silk-lined tunnels through the thatch layer and into the soil. They usually fly at dusk or when there’s foot traffic in the lawn.

There are specific insecticides and solutions for each of these lawn pests and insects. You might want to consult with a lawn care or gardening expert to learn how to take care of your lawn better against these pests and insects.

To learn how to minimize your lawn pests and insects problems, read Bruce Zimmerman’s Know Your Turf Grass Thugs.

Technically, weeds are annual or perennial plants growing where they are unwanted. As long as soil provides the necessary environment for plants to grow, weeds will grow too. Most soils already contain dormant weed seeds which only need the right germinating conditions to sprout.

Weeds are classified into 2 groups:

Broad-leafed Weeds - The term “broad-leafed weeds” describes all weeds that are not grass-like. Many of these broad-leafed weeds, like chickweed and spotted spurge, have leaves only the size of large freckles.

Grassy Weeds – Any grass that destroys the even texture and uniform color of a lawn is considered a weed grass. The list of these grassy weeds is long. Some of the most common grassy weeds are: annual bluegrass, bermuda grass, crabgrass,dallisgrass, quackgrass, and rye grass. With the exception of Bermuda grass and quackgrass, you can pull grassy weeds by hand or with a steel weed knife. To combat more tenacious grassy weeds, you can choose from an assortment of chemical weed killers.

To treat for weeds in your lawn, you have to understand the type of weed that you have. Since different type weeds require different types of treatment.