Lawn Care Guide

Martin Haworth asked:


It’s easy to kid yourself into believing that you know more about your lawn and garden than you really do. To move your efforts to the next level, you will need to get some help from someone who really knows what they are doing.

It requires hard work and skill to get a great lawn. It’s more than just keeping your grass cut regularly. Sometimes you will need a little lawn care help to get over the tricky problems.

Maybe you have weeds you can’t shift or advice on the right treatment at the right time of year. And there are always professionals around you can call on with the level of knowledge you need.

To maintain a great looking lawn that is lush and green, takes effort and making an annual plan can minimize effort and maximize results.

By doing this you will have a deliverable schedule that will ged rid of weeds and other problems early on, reducing the need for a lot more effort later in the year. Being pro-active earlier in the season, you will nip problems in the bud and infestations and infections affection your lawn will be a lot less likely or severe.

If you have had problems in the past, you can always call in professionals who you will find advertizing their services in yellow pages or at a local garden center.

There are also some great services, often local franchises, who visit on a monthly basis for a regular fee. They will take care of all your needs on a sliding scale for the level of services you want.

It’s a great solution if you feel out of your depth and are looking for serious lawn care help that is not too expensive and easy to budget for.

If you get a disease that affects your grass, bringing in lawn care help from someone who really knows what they are doing, will probably cost less than trying to beat the problem by yourself.

It’s easy to get stuck into trying to fix something that takes times and money by yourself - and still find it’s too big a deal for you.

So maybe it’s better to consider professional support sooner rather than later. Then you can settle back, do what you can do, like the mowing and watering (remember the plan?), get an expert in from time to time, and enjoy the lawn you have.

That’s a much better idea than worry yourself trying to make good a problem easy to solve by someone who knows what they are doing. This is a great time to leave your lawn care help to someone who really understands lawns professionally.



Lester

Michael F asked:


I live in Katy, TX and was wondering if someone could recommend an inexpensive lawn care company (or individual.) The bigger companies that advertise are highly priced; I would prefer a word-of-mouth sort of operation. I cut my own grass but the yard needs trimming, some weeding, mulch and maybe even some sod. I also speak pretty good Spanish if your referral is not a native English speaker. Thanks.

Herman

Pat Jackson asked:


With the tightening of environmental restrictions becoming a reality over more and more of the United States that tell you what you can and can’t put on and into your lawn, it is no wonder that organic lawn care is becoming a natural alternative. For those that aren’t familiar with the concept, organic lawn care is the use of 100% natural and organic chemicals and solutions on your lawn to help your grass and flowers grow naturally. Just like organic farming doesn’t use any harmful, man-made pesticides, organic lawn care is dedicated to using only natural ingredients to keep your lawn green!

Maybe the best argument of all to switch to organic lawn care is the fact that everything you put on your lawn gets absorbed into the ground below. Do you really want to be spreading possibly dangerous chemicals right below your water pipes so that these chemicals get absorbed into the water table? Of course not, and it is this realization, more than anything else, that makes people switch over to natural grass-growing and fertilization.

The first step that most people take when they decide to go green is to change the fertilizer they use on their lawn and on their flower beds. A trip to the lawn care store can be quite the experience if you’ve never been before. There are literally hundreds of different types of fertilizer made for home and lawn use, some of them are natural but many of them are not. The most obvious fertilizer to use for your lawn would be manure. When most people think of this, the instant reaction is NO WAY! They imagine fresh out of the cow manure that would make you have to hold your nose every time you leave your house, and we don’t even want to think of the reaction from the neighbors! But most manure that can be commercially bought has no scent whatsoever. That’s right, it’s been treated so that there is very little to no smell at all. And your flowers will just love having natural fertilizer to help them grow instead of a sprayed on chemical that doesn’t even work as well.

Another simple adjustment you can make to help your lawn be green and healthy is the use of natural cedar chips in your flower beds to help prevent weed growth. Some people choose to use other substances that have a layer of chemical weed killer covering it and while it may do wonders for your flower beds, that chemical has a tendency to run off every time it rains and down into the water table it goes. Natural cedar will not only smell and look great, it will do a number on the weeds, too!



Pauline