The Lazy Man’s Guide To Spring Lawncare

lets suppose you posses a lawn or you wouldn’t be reading this article and by looking at this article you must be wondering how you could best care for your lawn! For many of us, grass fulfils the basic function of creating a aesthetic covering over large areas of our gardens. Should the grass migrate into the flower bed then it becomes a weed fit for extinction as fast as possible!

Basic Lawn Maintenance for an existing lawn involves us simply cutting the grass every week through the summer to keep it looking neat, weeds and all! Some of us may go a little further and actually feed and weed the lawn while the most enthusiastic will actually practice the comprehensive Lawn Maintenance programme and scarify and aerate the turf every year. It all depends on what lawn and garden tools you have and what you are trying to achieve.

As you are researching for Lawn Maintenance advice I can assume you are one of the more keen gardeners who would like their turf to look as good as the rest of the garden.

Lawn Maintenance comprises of just a few basic tasks be it for the average lawn inherited by most of us, through to the bowling green / putting green results achieved by the professionals. Let us assume that you are needing to improve the appearance of lawn that the vast majority of us own.

We start our Lawn Maintenance routine in the springtime when the grass shows its first sign of coming back to life after the winter. The grass will start to look a little greener and seem to stand up more as it starts to grow.

Now is the time when you take a steel wire pronged Tyne rake and give your turf a good deep raking. Now this is not an easy job but it is an necessary part of your Lawncare routine. The objective of this job is to try to remove the ‘thatch’ at the bottom of the plant. Yes, grass is a plant and like all other plants rubbish accumulates at its base, only with grass it becomes locked in excluding air and water getting easy access to the roots.

By scratching away this dead material you are clearing away this barrier and creating room and improving the environment in which the grass can grow. The more vigorous the grass, the less room for weeds to grow.

Whether you’re planning to use liquid lawn fertilizer or Pellets. Organic or non-organic, you need to get this bit right before you begin your feeding regime.

The turf will look in a sorry state after you’ve finished but it will soon recover and the dead thatch can be used to line hanging baskets or added to the compost heap. After a few days the grass will be growing and you can start your cutting regime and spring feeding. This job is well worth the effort.