Lawn care season has arrived and experts say following four key steps this month will help create healthier grass in the months to come
The lawn care season is upon us, which means it’s time to arm ourselves with the proper equipment and materials to achieve a verdant lawn. Having a few essential tools makes maintaining your lawn considerably simpler.
The process includes scarification, aeration, over-seeding and top dressing. The work you invest in your lawn now will reap rewards in the coming months.
Your lawn grass is emerging from its winter slumber. If it’s grown long, you can give it an initial high cut. Ideally, we should scarify the lawn using a spring tine rake in early spring or a scarification rake from mid to late spring. Scarification involves raking the lawn to remove as much thatch and moss as you can, reports the Express.
This enables light and air to reach the living grass beneath. Following this, we can aerate the lawn by piercing it with a garden fork or aeration spiker. The holes ought to be four to six inches in depth and distributed across the entire lawn.
These perforations will ease ground compaction and allow fresh air to reach the existing grass roots.
The ground is then prepared for spreading grass seed over the entire lawn or targeting bare and sparse areas as needed. The seed will settle into the ground and should be topped with a layer of lawn dressing.
Top dressing grass seed will support the germination process, introduce nutrients to the soil and shield seed from birds. Specialists at BLACK+DECKER recently revealed the optimal time to dust off the lawnmower and take on the lawn once more.
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