| Summer is just around the corner, and your | | | | season, spread 60 days apart. Start in early |
| lawn could probably use a little maintenance | | | | spring approximately 30 days before the |
| before the summer season of backyard BBQs and | | | | growing season begins in your area, |
| swimming in the pool. So what are you doing | | | | continuing through the growing season until |
| now to get your lawn ready? Lawn care is | | | | fall. Spring fertilizing gets the grass off |
| often feared as a difficult and time | | | | to a fast start giving you that rich green |
| intensive process, but with a few guidelines | | | | color everyone wants. A word of warning |
| and tips, you can easily have a healthy green | | | | though, don\'t use too much fertilizer, |
| lawn in time for the first backyard party of | | | | follow the listed guidelines on the bag. |
| the season. | | | | |
| | | | Mowing is the most misunderstood part of lawn |
| First of all, if you can spare a minute of | | | | care, and the most often incorrectly |
| your time, dont hire a lawn care specialist | | | | performed part of lawn care. Far too many |
| or professional landscaper. Buying your own | | | | people will set their mowers too low or |
| lawn care products is cheap and easy, with | | | | \"scalp\" the lawn. How many times have you |
| hundreds of vendors offering products online | | | | spent time mowing your grass in hopes of a |
| and in Do-It-Yourself stores. A wide variety | | | | beautiful result only to end up with brown |
| of products such as weed controllers to | | | | spots? Cutting too much off the top leads to |
| fertilizers can be found online, and usually | | | | thinned out grass, and shallow root systems. |
| can be found at reasonable prices, especially | | | | |
| when you do a little online coupon searching. | | | | Now once you have achieved the perfect lawn, |
| | | | you must do regular maintenance to prevent it |
| Starting off on the right foot is important | | | | from going back to being a pasture. Spend a |
| to reviving your lawn after winter. | | | | little time and money and keep it watered and |
| Fertilizer is the key to ensuring strong | | | | you will keep the lush grass you spent your |
| healthy growth of the grass in your yard. | | | | hard earned money and time on. The ideal way |
| Fertilizing the grass does more than just | | | | to water your lawn is with an Automatic |
| make it green. Of course it will make it grow | | | | Underground Sprinkler System. This way the |
| too, but lot\'s of things happen when you | | | | watering is done every day that it needs it, |
| fertilize. Fertilizer makes the seed | | | | you don\'t have to drag hoses, you don\'t |
| germinate faster, and get started out of the | | | | waste water from over watering, and you get |
| ground. After the grass has a good start | | | | all of the lawn watered, not just where you |
| fertilizer will make the grass get thicker | | | | happen to set the sprinkler. If you |
| and send off beneficial chemicals like | | | | implement this type of sprinkler system, make |
| Rhizomes, Stolons, and Tillers all making the | | | | sure to water shrubbery and annuals separate |
| grass thicker and healthier. | | | | from the lawn. If you applied the same amount |
| | | | of water on your landscape as gets put on the |
| What most people want to know about | | | | lawn you would surely kill some plants from |
| fertilizing is - how much and when? | | | | over watering. |
| Typically, you want to fertilize 4 times each | | | | |