Lawn Care Guide

Ling Tong asked:


In spring, your lawn may look vastly different from what it did when you give it the last mowing in the fall. During the winter season, debris can accumulate on the lawn and there may be dead leaves remaining that you missed and there may be animal droppings that have started to rot. All of these can do damage to your lawn if you don’t remove them when you start preparing it in spring. This is why spring lawn care is just as essential as the care you give it all summer long.

 

Carefully examine the grass on the lawn to see if there are any weeds. These can grow rather quickly in the spring and need to be eradicated immediately. Remove the weeds, making sure you get the roots because if you don’t they will only grow back. For areas with patches or clumps of weeds, remove the roots and then aerate the soil. This means to poke small holes in the soil so that the oxygen can get to the roots of the grasses or plants. Water the soil and then plant new seedlings. You should do this with all of the lawn and not just in the places where you remove the weeds.

 

Raking the grass is and essential part of lawn care in the spring. This helps to bring up the dead clippings and rejuvenate the grass so that it will start to grow again. It is also an excellent way to remove thatch cover that may be present. Thatch cover of less than 50% is not a big deal for any lawn, but if there is more than that you do have to take steps to remove it and raking is the best method.

 

All lawns need water in the spring. You should not think that the soil has received enough water from any snow or rain because most of this moisture evaporates rather than sink into the soil. Experts recommend that you should give your lawn at least 5 inches of water in the spring. Thereafter you should give it at least an inch or water once a week and during the hot summer weather, the lawn needs an inch of water every three days.

 

The water will help moisten the soil to ensure that any new seedlings have the fertility they need to start growing. You should also check the drainage system to make sure that any excess water does drain away and does not saturate the lawn. In areas where there is a lot of ice and snow during the winter months, watering the lawn early in spring serves another purpose. If you use salt to de-ice walkways or the driveway or if you live close to the street where the city regularly spreads salt to keep it from becoming slippery, water will help desalinate the lawn. Even though you don’t spread these chemicals on the lawn, the wind and the spray from the wheels of vehicles on the street will carry them to the lawn.



Ronnie

M L asked:


i am in ma. my lawn is in pretty bad shape. when should i seed? when should i put down the scotts product that prevents crab grass? in which order?

Russell

asked:


I know someone who has a lawn care business, does landscaping, building, and remodeling also. He is not licensed in lawn care, fertilization, or building of any sort. Can he get in trouble for not being licensed, and if so, how do I report him?

James

trc asked:


Our company does some lawn care such as mowing and fertilizing. After fertilizer application we have to put down warning signs. We can’t find pre-made signs anywhere.

Philip

Matia Bryson asked:


 

In the spring as the weather begins to warm and it is so enjoyable to be outdoors, it is easy to give our lawns the attention they need. It is a pleasure to see the blades of grass begin to turn green, and it is no sacrifice to spend our free time outdoors doing what we think we can for our yards. In actuality, spring is not the only time we should give our lawns attention. All the seasons of the year have particular tasks that can enhance the beauty of our lawns, and a year round lawn care schedule is in our own best interests. 

It may come as no surprise that the winter months do give us a certain amount of rest from yard chores. There is no need to fertilize or be out on the lawn mowing it every weekend. The winter months are the best times to pay attention to maintenance of our equipment, such as the lawn mower, before we get too busy in the spring and summer. Winter time is a superb opportunity to walk around the yard to take note of the places that will need some extra attention such as re-seeding barer patches. 

Without a doubt when we live in a climate where the ground is frozen much of the winter our primary goal may be to prepare for spring by reducing freeze damage to our grass. Avoid, if possible, walking on a frozen lawn or using equipment on it. This will prevent breaking the tender blades of grass before they can come out of dormancy in the spring. If, on the other hand, we live in a warmer climate, we should continue to mow when it becomes necessary, regardless of the date, to clean up fallen leaves and get air between the blades of grass. Get air into the soil is also desirable by “aeration” or using equipment intended for that purpose or walking around the yard with spiked shoes in the late fall or when the soil is not frozen. Aeration helps water to get to the roots and makes the soil softer in which the roots of the grass can expand. 

There is a season to take in hand those things we do not want to get out of hand, namely, weeds. We are talking about late winter and early spring. This is the time to use a pre-emergent weed killer as well as some early spring fertilizer. By suppressing weeds and fertilizing we are give our lawn an advantage of healthy growth coupled with a lack of obstruction from the weeds. The late winter and early spring season is also excellent for raking up detritus that has settled on the soil. The action of raking also has an aerating effect. 

It is common knowledge that the spring and summer schedule for yard care is mostly concerned with relentless mowing to discourage weed growth and keep the grass at a desirable height. In the autumn it is time for a post emergent to cut down on weeds in the fall months. When we have a schedule for the care and upkeep of our lawn, season by season, we can get much better results for our efforts. It can reduce the work during the busier months and our lawn will stay healthier all the year round.

 



Clifford

Donna M asked:


i want to make a flier for cutting grass how can i make a flier for my lawn care bussiness

Kristen

Chanaka Dunuwila asked:


Many people have dreamy ideas about what their lawn ought to look like. They imagine the picturesque lawn with absolutely no weeds and lush, vibrant grass with no bare spots. However, this is an unattainable goal, and the purpose of lawn care products isn’t to achieve the perfect look but to make your yard look the best that it can. The best lawn care products help you to get a great (although probably not perfect) looking yard without using too much in the way of somewhat toxic (only toxic at concentrated levels) substances. In short, the best looking yard with the least amount of chemicals.

Not Always the Costliest

The secret about the best lawn care products is that they don’t always cost the most out of all the lawn care products. In fact, many of the more expensive treatments aren’t as effective. Treating a yard should never take more than two to three hundred dollars a year, and you can save much of that if you just buy the products and apply them yourself anyway. With the best lawn care products, you don’t need to worry about the toxicity of the substances that you’re applying to your yard either. At the very low concentration at which lawn care products are applied, you would need to roll around in the still-wet-from-the-herbicide grass for hours to get sick. After all, thousands upon thousands lawn treatment professionals who use these very same best lawn care products work with them everyday and don’t get sick from them. However, you may want to make sure that they use pet safe lawn care products if you have some pet toys lying around the yard. Your dog Toto might become sick if picking up his tennis ball with toxic lawn care products sprayed on it.

Worse than the toxicity of many substances is the fact that they are designed to not break down, meaning your body has a harder time getting rid of them. Short of drinking a bottle of pesticide, these products certainly can’t kill you, although most lawn care professionals attach notes of “stay off till dry” to the invoices they leave with their customers. By maintaining your yard each year, you can increase the vibrancy of your grass from year to year, and yearly maintenance simply makes it easier to keep weeds out of your yard. The longer you use the best lawn care products, the less you need to use them as your yard becomes stronger.



Franklin

Tango Pang asked:


When you purchase a home, or when you have a lawn that you are responsible to take care of, there are many things that you should always remember. In the area of lawn care help, there are many online places and books that you can find lots of help for handling with your lawn. The best lawn care help should start off with a plan of what you want/or need to do with your lawn. To get the best lawn care help, you need to know exactly what you’d like to do with your lawn before you start any work. It is important to have an overall vision or a plan of what you want to achieve with your lawn. This helps ensure that your lawn gets done the way you always wanted it. And if you can find the time to draw out a draft of what you want your lawn to be like, you will have much higher chance of success.

It does not matter if you have little or no artistic ability, drafting out a sketch of how you want your lawn to be will afford you some of the best lawn care help. This is because you can take the sketch into a lawn care store, or show it to the professional who will be working on your lawn. This will allow better control over what you want to do with your lawn. Whether you are dealing with a lawn store or a professional who is providing you the lawn care service, a sketch will be very useful because it allows others to see exactly and understand what you are talking about.

And remember to ask for help

When you need lawn care help, you should always ask for advice. Remember that there is nothing wrong with needing help, and there is certainly nothing wrong with asking others to help you with the things you don’t know how to do. In order to achieve success with your lawn, you should make sure that you are asking for the right help. Remember that in order to get the best help possible, just ask.



Mark