There is a saying that you can tell everything about your neighbours from the way they keep their lawns. This can either be true or not; nevertheless, it brings our minds to the subject of lawn and gardens. What helps to make them look better and what methods should be dropped.
On a sentimental note, your lawn does tell visitors a little about you, so does your garden. Maintaining one’s lawn and the garden is both an art and a full-time job. Well, almost. Because this article would give you the best shortcuts to keeping your lawn and garden consistently neat and immaculate.
And No, you do not need to have a professional gardener to keep a tidy garden and lawn.
How To Cater For Your Lawn And Garden Like A Pro
Catering For Your Lawn
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Regular Cutting
The first step to catering for your lawn is consistent and regular cutting. Too simple? Yes, regular cutting is simple and effective. Do not wait till objects can literally disappear in the grass before you or your garden maintenance personnel decide it’s time to have them mown. Wheel out your lawnmower now.
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Fertilise
Cutting the grass on your lawn will inevitably deplete its store of nutrients. If you’re going to be engaged in regular cutting, then be sure to fertilise your lawn equally. Potassium, nitrogen and phosphorous are super necessary for your lawn but they must be administered with discretion and according to product recommendations.
A wrongly applied fertiliser can kill your lawn’s soil and its accompanying nutrients. It is preferable to use organic fertiliser as opposed to regular fertiliser. The soil friendly nature of organic fertilisers is welcoming to earthworms which boosts the quality of your lawn considerably.
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Consistent Irrigation
Never forget that your lawn does need sufficient watering. This would keep it vibrant, lush, and green, the ideal must-have if you are a business or homeowner. To help you retain moisture for much longer, try to water between 5 am and 9 am. Also, water if you observe that your lawn’s grass has taken on an odd hue except for green, that is, bluish or gray-ish.
Irregular watering will cause the grass roots to go deeper than usual into the soil, but regular watering makes your grass comfortable in the ground and suitably moisturised. Modern innovation has made watering most effortless through the development of sprinklers and other smart systems.
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Weeding
Note that catering for your lawn does not just involve making the grass happy, so to speak, it also includes protecting your lawn from unwanted guests such as weeds and pests. First of all, your garden is more likely to resist unfriendly agents if its soil is healthy.
Secondly, a helpful tip to combating weed is to remove them manually. Your hands and knees will probably get dirty but the results are sure to be worth the effort. Make sure to get as much of the weed out as possible to prevent regrowth.
Catering For Your Garden
Be Mindful Of The Seasons
Now while the two are closely related, catering for a garden has its unique methods and details to give attention to. It is crucial to be aware of techniques to apply in catering for your garden at different seasons of the year. In the winter, you do not exactly need to be about, pruning and cleaning anything in your garden. Instead, the slow winter season can be used to plan what course of action you intend to take for your garden come spring.
With little to do on your garden at this time, you can sit back and plan crop rotations, flowers to plant and so on. For spring, you may trim blooms and shrubs from previous seasons to remove infected plants from healthy ones. It is advisable to aerate your lawn in spring. This is also the perfect time to add mulch in places where it is needed and even rotate your crops.
Tips to apply during summer are watering; this must be done intelligently, weeding plus organic compost therapy for your garden crops and blooms. Your fall harvest should be from majorly crops planted in the summer. Summer is the best time to plant annual flowers such as snapdragon, petunia, marigold, begonia, impatiens and so on. Lastly, spring is the best time to prune diseased plants such as trees and shrubs.
Let cut grass blades be left to feed the soil when you mow and you are good to go. If you are catering for your garden in the fall, be sure to plant staples and cash crops to maximise your garden for that season. Potatoes, onions and garlic are excellent choices for fall.
In catering for your lawn and garden, scarification[1] and aerification cannot be overemphasised. Use a garden fork to create holes that should be filled with sand — scarifying and aerification help to clear away debris and any dead roots suffocating your lawn and garden.
Glossary
[1] Scarification – Link
