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