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