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.

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