| If you want to be sure that the landscape around your | | | | system for your lawn maintenance. |
| home is beautiful and in the best possible condition, | | | | In most cases, it is best to water your grass just once |
| then you will want to be sure that you properly take | | | | a week, unless the weather is extremely hot or dry. |
| care of the lawn garden portions of your landscape | | | | When doing your weekly watering, you can place an |
| design. It is very important that correct maintenance of | | | | empty tuna can on the grass and let the water run until |
| the lawn is carried out so that they not only stay | | | | it is filled up. |
| attractive but also healthy. In most cases, the lawns | | | | This will help you know when you have watered |
| are the most expansive and first noticed areas of the | | | | enough to give the deep roots enough moisture |
| overall landscape. | | | | without over watering. Watering in this way will also |
| Watering the lawn and garden is one of the most | | | | help your lawns develop a deep root system which will |
| important parts of good grass maintenance. In some | | | | also help them survive periods of drought. |
| parts of the country, there is enough rainfall so that the | | | | Another aspect of lawn and garden maintenance is |
| roots are properly supplied with moisture. But even in | | | | proper fertilization and weed control. Good basic |
| what would be considered soggy areas, such as the | | | | maintenance techniques will go a long way in keeping |
| Pacific Northwest, there are periods or dry weather | | | | the lawns of your home and garden healthy, thriving |
| and no rain. When this happens, it is vital to the survival | | | | and with few weeds. |
| of the lawns that they be properly watered. | | | | Spring is the best time to fertilize lawns as this is when |
| The first sign of an impending drought condition of the | | | | the grass is "waking up" and will need the extra |
| lawn garden area of your landscaping is a change in | | | | nutrients from the fertilizer to assure healthy growth. |
| color. The grass in lawns that are suffering from | | | | The best garden lawn fertilizers will have a |
| insufficient moisture will start to lose their intense | | | | combination of nitrogen, phosphates and potash. |
| greenness and will soon turn to a straw color, or even | | | | In addition to a "spring feeding" of your lawn garden, |
| brown if the lack of moisture persists. | | | | you can also boost the health and vitality of the grass |
| The best time of day to water a lawn or garden is | | | | in your lawns with a second round of fertilization during |
| during the coolest part of the day. This means that | | | | the summer. This will help assure that your grass is |
| turning on the grass sprinkler early in the morning or in | | | | healthy enough to help push out the weeds that might |
| the evening after the sun has set is best. Garden lawn | | | | try to take root and you can also use a fertilizer that |
| experts also say that the rotary sprinklers provide the | | | | combines a weed-killer to control these unwanted |
| best coverage if you don't have a built in sprinkler | | | | plants. |