Lawn Maintenance

Lawn is a necessary part of garden. It is an area of land planted between gardens covered with grass and other low lying plants. It's usage should be understood before doing something. Select a tough kind of grass if you are planning to use your lawn for your kids and pet amusement but if you are going to use it as a decoration you should use a tender kind or grass.

There's also a need for maintenance of your lawn in order to maintain its nice appearance. The following lists will serve as a guide to maintain your healthy lawn:

1 Before planting any lawn grass in your lawn make sure that your lawn grass suits the season in which you are planting it as some grasses are meant for cool seasons and some are meant for warm season.
2 Keep proper care of the watering your lawns. Apart from regular sprinkles, make sure you properly water your lawns once in a week. Also make sure that you water your garden lawns when your lawn grass is dry enough to leave your footprints as you walk across it.
3 Early morning or late evening is the best time to irrigate your lawns.
4 Many lawn grasses are prone to pests and insects like chinch bugs, army worms and sod webworms. Make sure you use lawn fertilizers to keep them away. However avoid frequent usage of lawn fertilizer though. It is best to use organic fertilizer. Avoid using pesticides, insecticides or fungicides because they also kill the beneficial elements in the soil.
5 You should also frequently mow the grasses to keep them in shape. However make sure you do it with a sharp mower. Dull mowing leads to browning of grasses.