Basics Of Lawn Care

If you have a beautiful and well-maintained lawn in your home, you will feel pride and most of your neighborhoods will appreciate it. The look of lush green and beautiful grass is due to your care, which you take of it. If you are, still not satisfied that your grass is looking well then there are some basic things, which will be helpful in this regard. If you will follow all these basics things, the grass of your lawn will look more beautiful and healthy. Weeding, feeding, watering, mowing, scarifying, and aerating are the basic things of lawn care. When you will apply all basic things to your lawn, your home will give you very good price if you will sell it because lawn will add beauty to your home. During mowing of your lawn, keep the height of grass in your mind. Always try to cut grass above its two third heights. Most of the people clean clippings of the grass but you leave them in the yard because these clipping will work as a fertilizers. You can mow the lawn once a week; however, it would be ideal that you mow your lawn twice a week.

The blade of mower should be sharp enough and always try to mow in different direction rather than in a same direction. Never move your lawn when possibility of wetness is there. The choice of lawn mower should be according the size of the lawn. If the lawn is small which you can cut in one an hour or half an hour then walking mower is best otherwise, you need a mower, which is ride on. Watering is necessary for lawns and especially for healthy and beautiful grass. Always try to water grass of your lawn early morning of the day and never water the lawn too frequently. When you water the lawn, make this sure that yard of your lawn soak well the whole water and not so well, that water dry after a while means soaking should be slow. Always keep update of weather, if there is raining or possibility of rain is then do not water the grass of your lawn. Lawn feeding is very important and basic step of lawn care.

Before feeding to the soil of your lawn, test the soil and make sure that which nutrients are required by the soil, and then feed according to test. In spring and summer, you will have to use fertilizer, which has surplus of nitrogen and low level of phosphates. Similarly, in autumn use that fertilizer which has low nitrogen level but greater amount of phosphate. Aeration is very important step in which an instrument is used which is called aerator. This work just like mower, however instead cutting the grass it simply clutches and pull grass to make holes in the yard, so that soil become soft and grass can grow well. Leave the soil of aeration on the grass because it will work as fertilizer during watering. The entire basic steps are necessary for the lawn care.