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Lawn Care Tips For you

By: Paul Zayer

Home lawn care is as complex or simple as you make it. Before you decide to put in different colors and varieties of exotic plants it's a good idea to consider just how much free time you have to spend on the maintenance of these exotic plants, or in lieu of your own loving care, if you can pay to hire a professional landscape team come around to take regular care of your plants.

Lawn Tip 1

Some of the most valuable nutrients can be added to your lawn by letting it reclaim these same nutrients from the clipped grass pieces. Some of you might think that adding grass clippings or mulched leaves and branches will add or promote thatch to the lawn, but this is not true. The more nutrients the better; for the most part, and lawn clippings are best suited to nourish the living lawn.

Lawn Tip 2

When mowing your grass, try not to mow the entire yard, but rather 1/3 of the overall yard. Also, each time you mow, cover a different 1/3 of the yard. For example, if you begin at a 3 o'clock position in your yard and go to a 7 o'clock position one time, start at 5 or 6 and go to 11. You will have a healthier lawn by keeping the mowing pattern varied.

Lawn Tip 3

It's much easier to get a handle on new weeds than when they're older, more established and just plain harder to remove.

Lawn Tip 4

Most lawns need about 1-2 inches of water each week. Try to water the lawn early in the morning (5-8AM) so it doesn't have a chance to encourage mold or fungus like nighttime watering does. This also keeps the sun from burning up all the dampness, thus robbing your lawn and your pocketbook.

Lawn Tip 5

The use of commercial fertilizer certainly can be overdone while more natural nutrients like those from compost or grass clippings really can't be overdone. You run the risk of poisoning your lawn in the long term if you overdo the recommended doses of fertilizer for your lawn.

Lawn Tip 6

Beside cutting grass better and more consistently, powerful and efficient lawn mowers have lower gas emissions, which is better for the environment. Of course a manual or electric mower is even better for the environment, but you must think about other performance issues that come along with these other mower types before you get one.

An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that is composed of an herb instead of a kind of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many different sorts of herbs. The true challenge is to find an herb that can handle heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to sit or play on the lawn. There are many varieties of chamomile and creeping thyme that fall into this ideal middles ground.

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