| If you've ever wanted to improve the look of | | | | best applied with a rotary type spreader. |
| you lawn there are a few things you can do to | | | | Half the seed should be spread in one |
| maintain your lawn on a weekly basis without | | | | direction, the remainder in the opposite |
| doing any major work often required to | | | | direction. This gives good soil contact for |
| recover a damaged lawn.Lawn Fertilizer- Lawns | | | | the seed, and uniform germination. The type |
| need their Spring feed most of all, | | | | of grasses to be grown are dictated by |
| especially one containing nitrogen, backed up | | | | climate, and are best planted 30 days before |
| with both phosphates and potash. One feed per | | | | real warmth or chill sets in. Only hot season |
| annum is not enough, and a Summer feed, if | | | | grasses should be sown when the temperature |
| the lawn is looking a little jaded should | | | | reaches 80 to 90 degrees. Hot season seed is |
| contain either a proprietary lawn tonic, or | | | | very small and can be spread lightly, whereas |
| nitrogen rich fertilize. An autumn lawn care | | | | cold climate seed is larger and requires |
| feed should concentrate more on phosphates | | | | heavier coverage for good thick grass.There |
| and potash rather than nitrogen, possibly | | | | are various lawn care machines that can be |
| combined with a worm killer and disease | | | | rented for a day or two to power seed a lawn. |
| preventive.Watering Your Lawn - Rainfall in | | | | The seed is dropped into ready made grooves |
| the is normally sufficient to keep the roots | | | | as the machine moves over the ground. Again, |
| supplied with moisture, but dry spells do | | | | a level surface is essential, and power |
| occur in late spring and summer months. The | | | | seeders are not recommended where it is rough |
| first sign of drought will be colour change, | | | | or uneven.A further solution is to Hydroseed. |
| from green to straw or even brown. It is | | | | Under this process the seed is mixed with |
| advisable to water at the coolest time of | | | | fertilizer and a lawn care mulch plus water, |
| day, early or late, and best with a rotary | | | | and sprayed on to the lawn. This encourages |
| sprinkler. A good watering once a week for | | | | quicker germination. The spray is coloured |
| optimum lawn care is preferable to over | | | | blue or green for identifying the sprayed |
| watering,unless it is extremely hot. In this | | | | area, and later turns white. The machine will |
| way deep root development will be | | | | usually have to be hired rather than rented. |
| encouraged.Weed Control - This is really down | | | | A lawn can also be renovated easily with a |
| to good lawn care management. With an | | | | lawn care dethatcher, which scarifys the |
| established lawn, laid with good quality seed | | | | surface, and aids germination of scattered |
| or turf, the rules for maintaining it include | | | | seeds. This machine needs using with care |
| the following. Appropriate mowing, at the | | | | in respect of the lawn surface.Preparing the |
| correct height and little and often, and | | | | Seed Bed.For New Lawn care - Rake and smooth, |
| proper watering especially at the hint of a | | | | remove any debris. Renovating Established |
| dry spell. Scarifying helps to control weeds | | | | Lawns - Mow closely. To overseed or repair |
| and invigorates lawn growth, as does proper | | | | bare spots, rake to produce a viable surface, |
| feeding. Good fertility combats the growth of | | | | then check section on 'fertilizing'. Kill off |
| weeds and builds the strength of the grass. | | | | remaining seed with Finale. Vegetation will |
| Worm casts invite weed seeds, worm control is | | | | brown within 7-10 days. A good raking will |
| necessary, and prevention of disease in bare | | | | remove loosened thatch and expose soil for |
| patches.Mowing Your Lawn - Mowing keeps the | | | | seed. Bare spots can be chopped into small |
| lawn looking attractive. It should he done | | | | chunks to allow use of the slit seeder in a |
| regularly, from March to October, with sharp | | | | grid formation. Slits should run in a |
| blades, set not too low. It is better to mow | | | | horizontal fashion across slopes. Do not use |
| when the grass is dry, to reduce mower | | | | a Rototill, which will expose and spread weed |
| clogging. The mower should be moved in a | | | | seeds.About this article: |
| constant direction at a steady pace, and not | | | | |
| hoovered backwards and forwards. When newly | | | | Quick and helpful lawn and lawn care tips |
| sown grass reaches 2" or 3" inches high, the | | | | and advice |
| top 2" can be mowed with care.Advice for new | | | | |
| lawn care.Establishment lawn care - Whether | | | | Lawn Care |
| starting entirely from scratch, or renovating | | | | |
| and old, tired lawn, the following is the | | | | Information. Reproduction of this article is |
| best way to proceed. Seeding - for a lawn to | | | | permitted |
| be created from a bare, grassless mud patch, | | | | |
| it is easier to get professional help with | | | | so long as this resource box is included, it |
| the levelling, via a tractor and box blade. A | | | | remains unchanged |
| smooth clear surface is essential, with no | | | | |
| holes, dips, or drainage problems.Seed is | | | | and all links remain active and clickable. |