Lawn Care:


What will make your house look more beautiful? The obvious answers can be the structure, interior and the landscape. Landscape will make a significant contribution to enhance the beauty of your dream house. When planning the landscape, a beautiful lawn is what comes to the mind first. Lawn if taken care properly will surely be a beautiful ornament of your house. Below we have discussed the various attributes and ways by which you can easily take care of your lawn making it look the most beautiful.

How You Can Take Care Of Your Lawn
1. Make a study
Various species of grasses are used while making a lawn, such as such as coarse grasses, much finer and softer grasses. A study of these grasses will help you to find out the best way to take care of the plants, thus avoiding mishandling.
2. Maintenance
Maintenance involves various process and steps to achieve the best lawn care results. Maintenance mainly includes: -

i. Mowing
Mowing involves cutting the grass at even heights, making the garden look neat. This can be done with help of various mechanical lawn mowers. While cutting remember, longer grass tends to resist drought better than short grass, and competes better with weed growth. Never discard mowing; instead it should be composted, used as a high nitrogen compost activator or as mulch around trees, shrubs or vegetables.
ii. Scarifying and Raking
Scarifying and raking are the process of removing dead grass and are very effective to prevent tufting.
iii. Rolling
Rolling helps in leveling the ground and tillering i.e. branching of grass plants.
iv. Top Dressing
Top dressing involves decorating the lawn with sand, soil or other materials.
v. Spiking or Aeration
Spiking or Aeration helps to relieve compaction of soil.
vi. Watering
Watering will prevent the grass from going dormant and turning brown.
vii. Fertilizing
Fertilizing will help in for the growth of healthy grass.
viii. Pesticide Application
Pesticide application will help you to manage weeds and pests.

Lawn-care can be very enjoying if considered using right methods. And isn't it beautiful spending your weekends with your kids in the garden and going back to the days of your child hood.

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