Importance of Summer Lawn care
Friday, August 7th, 2009This video will teach you how to take extra care of your lawn during the season of summer.
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This video will teach you how to take extra care of your lawn during the season of summer.
All about summer lawn care
Friday, July 10th, 2009Summer Lawn Treatment
Monday, June 29th, 2009
- Summer lawn treatment is necessary since the heat is being absorbed by your lawn and this needs special care to help you maintain a health green lush lawn. Here are the two parts of summer lawn treatment:
1. Summer Treatment - When we say summer the first thing that comes our mind is heat and this doesn’t only being felt by human but also by plants and lawns around us. That is why a special treatment is needed to preserve their health and life. One thing needed by your lawn is the granular treatment- this kind of medication gives out enough potassium needed by the lawn and plants and then this also controls the release of nitrogen as this could shield the lawn from drought of summer and diseases without any bad effect on them.
Other problems that might encounter by your lawn is Yellow Nutsedge this is a warm season perennial weed. This is very hard to control because the plants has this small root tubers that when removed, tubers will remain in there and develop or grow new plants, that would take a lot of herbicide applications to successfully manage the Yellow Nutsedge.
The control of the post emergent crabgrass is also essential this could be ruin up on rainy days this allows seeds to develop when weather warms up then we can see common spotted spurge that should be treated.
2. Late Summer Treatment – This is a continues treatment of lawns and plants that is caused by summer heat and stress. As this is the season where turfgrass plants do recover and is trying to freshen up as well as its leaf blades and the roots. Then the fertilizer will help boost its growth for a full recovery also, all weeds and insects will be managed well to protect the lawn and plants and maintain its good health.
Refresh your lawn this summer..
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Summer is here and most of you is trying to maintain their lawn to look healthy and survive the summer’s heat. During this season, you need to double your effort in caring for your lawn to overcome summer’s heat effect on it. Here are some steps to guide you:
- Mowing is one of the most important step to do for your lawn to help them grow strong to keep your it away from weeds and pests that is trying to invade in your lawn. Moreover, it can also help keep its moisture well.
Mowing is best done when your grass is dry since it would not be a healthy habit to mow when its
wet or during rainy days. But there would also be an exception for this if heavy rains do happen
almost everyday where you couldn’t mow your grass according to your designated schedule.
- Know the ideal height of mower height. Mow every week and do not wait for your grass to grow tall before you decide to mow it. But don’t cut it too short since it would not be good for your grass, its roots system might be too flat or hollow.
Also, you should learn how to properly maintain your mower because mowers that are not very well sharpened, could cause some problem with your turfgrass that’s one rule of thumb to remember.
- Summer means hot season so it is always important to keep your soil cool and that is through the use of mulch to retain moisture to your grass to keep it cool. This is applied at the top front of the soil for protection also, mulch could protect your grass from weeds and stop weed germination.
In addition, Mulch do also help protect the shrubs and trees this is very helpful to lawn too especially during the season of summer so your lawn could freshen up even in this hot season.
Summer Lawn Care 5 great things to do..
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Now is the best time to think of great things to do to get your lawn ready for the coming season of summer. We only want what’s best for our lawns so as early as now, we should get a list of important things to prepare to lift up the look of our lawns. Here are 5 great things to do:
1. Raking and Thatch Removal – The first job to do while in the season of spring. Since Raking is not just all about eliminating the leaves and mess from your yard but also it helps remove thatch. That is why raking is considered one of the most important thing to do for your summer lawn growth.
Making a deep and thorough raking especially when a thatch is already at its half inch. Thatch could also help in holding some excess moisture from your lawn provided it should not reach half an inch as it could also hold excess moisture that would leave mold to your lawn prey. Also, spring season is the best time to have deep raking of your lawn to help it recover from a winter break.
2. Aeration – For the soil to be aerated it is always essential to remove on your lawn all the thick layers of thatch, unless it has been on a high traffic place for a long period of time where thatching could be inadequate already. Lawns on high traffic could slope down caused by soil compaction that is where the soil is already out of air for this, it could make a poor root bed for new grass you want to plant. As a tip, using your spiked shoes, you can walk over your lawn in this way it could create holes in the soil for aeration but this won’t work for excessively compacted soil you’ll need a machine for deep aeration for a healthy Summer Lawn.
3. Overseeding - This method is for the patches you can see on your lawn such as dog spots. This is usually a common problem among homes that has pets. This is where overseeding comes in that includes planting seeds over those patches with the release of a nitrogen fertilizer to promote growth for your lawn. This is usually done on fall for best results but if it is really necessary to overseed, you can always do it earlier.
4. Weed Control – For lawns suffering from a yearly weed problem, You have to fertilize your lawn with pre-emergent herbicides to control weeds to hinder the seeds from germinating so the weeds could not emerge all through your lawn.
5. Spring Fertilization – for your lawn’s new growth, a slow discharge of fertilizer would be best to promote new growth and avoid rushing your grass to grow since its always best to see its growth gradually, most especially on spring weather. Have a retest of soil on a regular basis to ensure that you are using the right kind of fertilizer for the type of your soil. In applying fertilizer always check that you are applying the exact amount of it and those grasses in shaded area need a half that is normally from the sun.
Most Common Problems for Summer Lawn Care
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Lawn insect pests – On the season of summer, this is one of the major problems that lawns do suffer. We can see those caterpillar that destroys the lawn that is known as the “Lawn army worm”. Where they usually attack the front part of the lawn like an army. They consume destructively the grass leaves thus, leaving a big brown patch on night time because during the day, they tend to hide under those falling leaves or any shed that could protect them from the sun.
Tip: You can trap them by putting a damp cardboard on the edge of the portion where they usually invade on night.
Black beetles – When you see a big dead patches of lawn and see birds grasping at the soil, this is the sign that the lawn is being attacked by an adult black beetles, their favorite food to munch is your grass leaves. Also, on their early stage,where they are called curl grubs, they have the habit of chewing the roots that will destroy your lawn and treating this kind of beetle is very hard.
Tip: Baythroid could be effective to prevent those beetles from your lawn. Another is pour a tub of water with soap into the lawn to flush out pests in the area.
Lawn Diseases – Tracing or distinguishing lawn diseases is very hard but having a round patch on your lawn is a sure sign of a disease being suffered by the lawn most of the fungal diseases could be usually determine in the morning. Also, avoid cutting your lawn very short during summer season.
Tip: You can treat this with a Mancozeb and feed it with a high nitrogen fertilizer. Water your lawn in the morning so it could dry fast.
Lawn Care Tips for Summer
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Before the season of summer comes, we should start to think of the best things to do to bring back our lawn to life. Having a green, healthy lawn could help us feel good , relax and enjoy more the summer days. In this goal, here are important tips to ponder for summer lawn care:
1. Raise the mowing height. - During summer making a raise of your mowing height will do good for your lawn. For this, scalping would be lesser because scalping your lawn, will help control weeds on your lawn thus, it will be harder for them to invade in your lawn. This could help your lawn grow more healthy and this could promote in showing more leaf blades from your lawn that will help show a greener lawn and will give chance for the roots to grow deeper, for the lawn to survive during the period of dry weather.
2. Work on High traffic areas. - You know where these high traffic area be located in your yard. If you see a low energy grass on the front walk off the patio or in the area of high traffic, think of something to do to lift those grasses up. You can give them an ample amount of fertilizer they needed to recover and a little of nitrogen could be the best remedy for this. Then, try to put some crumb rubber in the area. Crumb Rubber is taken from used tires. For it to soak up the traffic instead of soil in the specific area but should as well be absorbent enough for the water to go through and most important, for the lawn to grow more healthy.
3. Summer Broadleaf weed control. - The products that has carfentrozone. Summer broadleaf weeds are recommended to vanish that contains same herbicides that could control weeds on the season of spring and fall. Carfentrozone will flame up the top-growth of the broadleaf weeds such as oxalis, purslane and speedwell with no untoward effect on grass. Likewise with the crabgrass that has quinclorac that is under the registered name Drive that will work on matured crabgrass plants on its period of growth.
4. Making a Green up effect on your lawn for special occasions. - Since summer is the best season for big and special occassions it is always an asset for homes to have a green lawn. One best technique to green up your lawn in summer is the light dose of urea. This is affordable and could bring a green looking effect for your lawn in a span of 2-3 days. As long as it has an ample amount of water. This could be done in the middle of your regular application of fertilizer to regenerate your lawn.
5. Control beetle grubs from lawn. - If you are in the area where there are bettle grubs this could destroy your summer lawn the best precautions is to apply Imidacloprid (Merit or Grub-Ex) on the first week of july to control them. This kind of insecticide is very kind to almost all of the good insects in the yard.
