What elements make for a great garden? Attractive flowers, an interesting layout, excellent garden light fixtures to help you use the garden well into the evening hours? Perhaps it’s a mixture of all of these together with a particularly attractive lawn, always looking healthy and extremely green with your neighbors often asking you how you keep it so well.
How Will You Use Your Lawn?
Is your beautifully carpeted lawn purely a picture, a backdrop, to help emphasize your flower arrangements and garden light fixtures? Or, is it a home for fun and relaxation where children and pets can play? Knowing how you are going to use your lawn probably dictates the type of lawn grass you will grow and the way that you look after it.
What About the Weather?
Depending upon where you live, your lawn may have to suffer freezing conditions and risk being boiled alive in the hot sun. Always elect to listen to local experts when choosing your lawn seeds.
Scarifying and Aerating Your Grass
These are the two keys that help your lawn present a brilliant green appearance throughout the majority of the year. Moss quickly grows in and among your lawn. It prevents water, light and the range of necessary nutrients from reaching the roots in your grass.
Although there are many benefits to allowing freshly mown grass to remain uncollected and just spread across your lawn, should become too thick and too old it will become a thatch which moss will enjoy.
Scarifying by using a garden rake or an electrically powered version scarifies the lawn to remove all of the moss and dead grass. Instantly, water, air and nutrients can make their way through to your soil. This is a task that should be completed after the worst of the cold weather has passed and before it arrives again towards the beginning of the winter season.
Aerating your lawn manually with a fork or with an electronic aerator allows air directly through to the roots of your grass and when you complete this after scarifying your lawn, it helps air reach the roots as quickly as possible.
In addition, weeding your lawn regularly and feeding it with natural nutrients or store purchased feed that kills moss and weeds, will give your lawn the greatest chance to stay green, healthy and springy all year around.
With some appropriately placed garden light fixtures, your neighbors, friends and family are sure to see your lawn at its healthiest, whatever time of day they visit.
