Learn About 6 Lawn Care Tips For you

Home lawn care could be as complex or simple as you make it. Before deciding to put in various colors and varieties of exotic plants it's a good idea to figure out just how much weekend time you have to spend on the maintenance of these special plants, or if you can afford to hire a professional landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Lawn Tip 1

A large amount of valuable nutrients can be added to your lawn simply by leaving the clipped grass pieces on the lawn. While many people worry that adding grass clippings or mulched branches and leaves 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 help 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, cover a different 1/3 of the yard each time you mow. 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. Keep the mowing pattern varied and you'll have a healthier lawn.

Lawn Tip 3

Try to remove new weeds before they get older, more established and just plain harder to remove.

Lawn Tip 4

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

Lawn Tip 5

While more natural nutrients like those from compost or grass clippings really can't be overdone, the use of commercial fertilizer certainly can 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

Not only do powerful and efficient lawn mowers cut grass better and more consistently, but they have lower 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 consists of an herb rather than a sort of grass. You can make an herbal lawn out of many various types of herbs. The challenge really is finding an herb that can handle heavy foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to play or sit on the lawn. There are different varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this ideal middles ground.