Find A Lot Of Handy Spring Lawn Care Hints, Tips And Ideas
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Do you wish your lawn could to be in tip top shape throughout the year? Spring is the time to help you get your lawn preened and green. From winter clean up to aeration, mowing and seeding, this is the time to give your lawn a good once over. Here are 7 spring lawn care tips for a healthy lawn.
Dispatch Debris: Remove or pick up fallen branches, leaves and twigs. This will make your job easier when mowing later on.
De-Thatch: If your thatch levels exceed one-half inch then rake it up and away. Less than that can work to reduce evaporation and keep weeds from germinating. More than that can smother your lawn and prevent rain water penetration.
Core Aeration: If your grass is thin and the dirt is compacted it is a good idea to rent a core aerator. Extracting small plugs or cores of soil will loosen things up, allow deeper root penetration and help beneficial micro organisms grow. This will help your lawn to bounce back from dry spells quicker.
Weed Prevention: You don’t want unwelcome guests like crab grass settling in so apply a quality pre-emergent. Do so like two weeks before crabgrass typically germinates or emerges. Your local extension service should be able to help you with timing it right.
Bare Spot Repair: Planting seeds or putting down sod is the best way to treat those unsightly bare spots. Seeding is cheaper and works well as long as you keep the birds away and keep off the newly seeded area for about six weeks. This will allow the grass to get established. Soil temps are important when planting and need to be high enough to encourage germination. 70 degrees works for warm season grass and 50 degrees works best for cool season varieties.
Optimize pH levels: A pH level of 6.5 is ideal for turf grasses. You need the right pH for a healthy lawn. If a soil test finds the pH to be lower than that you’ll want to apply lime. While a higher pH tells you the soil lacks sulfur. You can buy soil pH test kits. Or have it done perhaps at a local garden center.
Grub Patrol: Irregular brown patches signal grubs in the lawn. The little devils chew the roots off your grass – hence the brown patches. You’ll know you have grubs is when you can easily pull up a section of sod away from the soil.
Anyway, by following these simple steps, you will have green grass throughout the year. Also, a lawn make-over is the perfect way to welcome spring and to keep your grass ever green.
Admitted lawnologist Dewey J Capasso is passionate about yard care. Contributing articles about best riding lawn mowers and zero turn radius lawn mowers reviews to MowerMania.com helps him achieve his goal of seeing to it you pick the perfect mower for your needs.
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