If you stick to a good lawn-care routine throughout the whole year, you should be able to keep your lawn in great condition. This means regular mowing, using an electric or petrol strimmer to take care of the edges of your lawn, fertilising, watering etc.
However, what happens if you have children who play on the grass, or if you've neglected the health of your lawn for a while? The quality of your lawn will quickly drop, and you'll be left with a tough job of repairing it.
Unless the lawn is completely ruined, with some intensive lawn care, you should be able to fix most problems. It just may take a little time.
It is possible that the damage to the lawn is too severe to save it. At this point, it's advisable to simply regrow the grass. You'll need to dig up the remainder of the old grass and rotate the soil. Then scatter new seeds (your local garden center can help you choose). Then just cover them with soil.
It goes without saying that, when you're trying to get the grass to grow back, you need to follow an intensive lawn care routine. Use the fertiliser recommended by the garden center and keep the grass well watered.
If the grass isn't beyond the stage of saving, the next most typical type of damage is that you've simply let it grow too tall and wild. After this, weeds and fungus are able to easily spread.
People's initial reaction to this, when they finally come to mow the lawn, is to simply cut it back to its normal height. However, this can be a mistake. What will happen is that the sudden mowing of the weakened grass to a short length will end up damaging it further.
So what should you do instead? The best way to handle this type of damage is to only cut a small section of the grass with a strimmer (otherwise know as a string or grass trimmer). Let the grass recover from this for just a few days and then go back to it and cut a few more inches off. Keep repeating this process until it's short enough to use a lawnmower.
Grass needs nitrogen in the soil to survive. If you've neglected to fertilise the soil often, you may start to see the grass get a yellow tinge. If you see this, it's an indicator of too little nitrogen in the soil.
You should pop down to your garden center and buy a step-system fertiliser. Not only are these really simple to use, they're incredibly helpful for getting the grass just the right nutrients.
At this point, I think it's important to note that you should always pull up and weeds as soon as you see them. By killing them at the root, you prevent them from spreading further; and I'm sure you know how quickly weeds can spread.
Dead patches of grass (where it's turned dry and brown) can be a pain to deal with. The best way to repair the area is to simply start again. Rotate the soil and grass slightly, fertilise the patch and spread new seed.
After you've done this, keep the area fertilised and watered whilst the grass seeds take root. As the growing season commences, the new seeds should fill out the area.
If you go through all of this work to get your lawn into great condition, make sure you don't have to do it again! Use your lawnmower and use your grass trimmer often to always keep the grass in fantastic shape.
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