Landscaping Tips for a Healthy Green Lawn

Looking for that think green and dazzling yard to show off to your neighbors and house parties?  Read our 8 easy and inexpensive steps that are guaranteed to give you a picture perfect landscape that looks like a golf course fairway before the first early morning  tee-off.    

Lawn Thatch Removal

Raking is the first step towards rejuvenating your lawn to a healthy green condition.  Hopefully you did a thorough job last fall removing thatch, which is the build-up of lawn clippings and other collected waste on top of soil.  To have a healthy lawn for the summer, it’s important to deep and thoroughly rake in the fall removing all thatch, and less in the spring as a little thatch will help keep moisture in the soil for grass growth during warm sunny days.  While raking in the spring, pay extra attention to bare patches of lawn needing care, potential pests and rodent holes, mold, or diseases. 

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Lawn Aeration

While thatching will help aerate your lawn, it may not be enough.  If your lawn is a high area of passage with such things as pets running and children playing, your soil will become dense overtime causing the air to compress out.  Compressed soil is unhealthy for the root bed and will potentially stop new grass from growing.  To help lawn aeration, put on a pair of old baseball cleats and walk throughout your lawn.  If the soil is too compacted for cleats, you can rent an aeration machine from your local hardware store or garden center, which extensively aerates your lawn by removing plugs of soil.

Lawn Compost

Optionally, you can add a half-inch of quality compost to your lawn both spring and fall with a spreader.  After applying the compost to your lawn, thoroughly water it in.  Compost will feed your soil the vital nutrients for grass growth.

Lawn Feed and Weed

If you have a problem with lawn weed or crabgrass, it’s necessary to apply pre-emergent herbicides (also known as Weed and Feed) prior to fertilizing in the spring.  The herbicides get rid of the current weeds and stop future growth.  However, be careful not to apply herbicides near the time you plant grass seeds, as they stop grass from germinating as well as weeds.  There are a few pre-emergent herbicide products on the market that don’t negatively affect grass seeds. 

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