Basic Lawn Care

Give a verdant look to your home landscape

Keeping the natural environment intact in your lawn is a pre-requisite to beautiful lawns. Grass is a natural element and adequate sunlight, air and water is what you require to give your lawn plush look.

A patch of green in your home landscape adds to the health and beauty of your neighborhood. A lush landscape around your home will make your home look better and make you feel re-energized at the start of each day. True lawn lovers are never afraid of putting in their efforts to create a beautiful lawn. Maintaining the lawn can be challenging and you need to keep in mind a few details to maintain a healthy lawn.

Grasses exactly suitable for your lawn soil

It is better to choose the plant that adjusts the climate of your region than to create an artificial climate for a foreign plant that is non-compatible to your soil and climatic conditions. Selecting something natural that automatically thrives with a little care and effort in the natural environment is best for your lawn. However, choosing and using fertilizers is crucial to the growth and survival of plants in your lawn. So be very careful to use these wisely on your plants.

Growing the particular grass that is compatible to the physiographic and soil condition of a particular region is best suited for homestead lawns. Trying to grow grass that is not suited to the climate and soil of the region is a wasteful effort and requires artificial climate. Turf grasses are suited for regions to the southern parts of USA whereas Kentucky bluegrass requires huge water and fertilizer is best suited for the northern regions.

Maintain your Lawn

To maintain a healthy and a verdant look, two important lawn care steps to take are to clean your lawn regularly and check your soil and inspect for damage.

Doing a soil test is the best way to understand your soil type and its requirements. You might find a high PH level in your soil in which case you need to balance it with lime. Your soil test will let you know about the mineral adequacy in the soil. Accordingly you need to provide the nutrition supplements to your soil that keeps the grass and other plants growing. If your soil is microbe rich then do not worry about plant growth but if it lacks organic material then you need to supplement your soil with the same.

Aeration and use of compacted sols helps breeding microbes in the soil. This soil is extremely favorable to growth of plants and grass. If your area experiences heavy rainfall then compacted soil will prevent water logging.

However, if your area is dry ensure enough water supplies especially in the morning. Deep watering nourishes the roots and makes your lawn healthy. Over watering should be avoided just like infrequent and shallow watering. Never water the streets and sideways and never water after putting fertilizer to your lawn. Your lawn needs about 1/2" of water in a week to survive and providing any amount in excess to this will be unfavorable to the grass growth.

Raking up accumulated leaves, removing dried and fallen leaves should be your regular task. If there is accumulation of dried leaves and other debris on the lawn grass then this will block the sunlight from reaching the grass and the condition of your grass suffers. Mowing the lawn regularly contributes to the healthy growth of grass. Make your lawn ideal for mowing would require maintaining a constant grass level to enable to mower function properly and avoid scalping which is detrimental to grass growth.

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