March 27th, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Your lawn needs to be in the best of health always in order to maintain the attractiveness of your garden. The importance of lawns in increasing the beauty and practicality of any garden is second to none. Residential lawn maintenance, as such, is very essential to keep it verdant and usable always. Lawn care is a wholesome process that involves year-round care.
Lawns get easily damaged due to negligence, trampling, weeds, pests and climatic conditions. If allowed, the grass would grow to unsuitable heights too. But the process of lawn care is not so hard, but you need to have certain knowledge on how to preserve a lawn properly in order to maintain your lawn the envy of your neighbors.
Pro help can also be sought respect if you’re feeling that residential lawn maintenance is beyond your capacity. For home gardens, it is recommended to go for user friendly and …
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March 25th, 2010 by Geoff Marks
A perfectly designed and properly maintained lawn multiplies the charm of your garden. Garden lawns are both decorative and functional. It is often said that a garden without a lawn is incomplete. But lawns need much more care because any defects like overgrowth, diseased patches, weeds etc could not only harm the lawn, but also destroy the aesthetic beauty of the garden. This is why you need to take proper lawn care.
There are many aspects involved in the process of properly maintaining the lawn. The most important of all is that suitable grass should be planted according to the climate of the area. That is why in colder regions such grass varieties are planted which remain green through the winter. It is also preferable to see the month you are planting the grass since planting at the wrong time can spoil your entire efforts.
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November 28th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
There are top tips to care for your lawn. Just as important as lawn care tips are the grass care mistakes that we should understand how to avoid. Lawn care and maintenance takes more than the common cutting and watering.
Here are the top ten lawn care mistakes that many people make. Some are so common that we think it’s just standard, when in reality it is actually damaging to your lawn.
1. Cutting the turf too short. Many people want to save time in cropping our grassed areas so we opt to chop them too short. This will give us a longer break between mows, but this does not bode well for your lawn. The idea here is that removing more than a 3rd of a grass blade will weaken its root system. This may steadily result to future lawn issues.
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