Saturday, January 29, 2011

Some Lawn Care Tips For The Spring

By Tom Doerr


Properly caring for your lawn is certainly an all year task and you do need to pay attention to keeping your yard as healthy as possible during the changing seasons. This is especially true during the spring months. Here are some basic lawn care tips for spring.

After the winter your lawn may well appear to be either lush and green, or completely barren and dry. Thankfully, spring is the right time of year for you to re-seed your lawn and put down sod on the dry patches.

It's certainly very important to you to make sure that once you have put down any new seeds or sod that you ensure you provide plenty of water to your lawn throughout the week. Of course, if there is plenty of rain around then this won't be too much of a problem, but if not you will need to make sure that you out there providing all the water that it needs.

Fertilising your lawn during the spring isn't always a great idea. The reason for this is very simple. The nitrogen that is present within the fertiliser is going to make the blades grow quicker than the roots. The roots, therefore, will fail to take hold and this can often lead to serious problems when someone arrives because the roots are not able to conserve sufficient water reserves to keep the blades growing without much rain.

Most people do struggle with the weeds at any time of year, and the same is certainly true during the spring time. Of course, there are plenty of different weedkiller products that you can use to help you out and as such you should try to find something appropriate to keep the weeds away as your lawn regrows.

If you do take the steps then you should have no problem in maintaining your lawn nicely.




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