Help With Lawn Care

Grass is really quite a resilient plant, so with some very simple lawn care, it’s usually quite easy to keep your lawn’s “health” good. You’ll need to water it often, fertilise and use a lawnmower to hinder the growth of weeds.

However, what happens if you have children who play on the grass, or if you’ve neglected the health of your lawn for a while? The quality of your lawn will quickly drop, and you’ll be left with a tough job of repairing it.

Unless the lawn is completely ruined, with some intensive lawn care, you should be able to fix most problems. It just may take a little time.

It is possible that the damage to the lawn is too severe to save it. At this point, it’s advisable to simply regrow the grass. You’ll need to dig up the remainder of the old grass and rotate the soil. Then scatter new seeds (your local garden center can help you choose). Then just cover them with soil.

After this, over the next few weeks and months, give the lawn some TLC - regularly water it, fertilise it and when the grass does start coming back in start to use a good lawn care routine!

If the lawn isn’t completely ruined, the most common form of damage is simply that people have let the lawn grow for weeks and weeks, and it’s become overrun with weeds and moss.

Here’s a quick warning: At this stage, if you simply grab your lawnmower and start to cut, you’ll rip up the grass and cause more damage!

Instead of this, always begin by simply cutting a couple of inches off by using a strimmer (an electric or petrol strimmer should work fine). Then, let the grass start to “heal”. Come back to it in a few days and cut a couple more inches off. And simply keep doing this until the grass is back to its normal height.

If you’ve neglected to fertilise the lawn, or the soil isn’t of great quality, the grass may start to lose its colour. If it starts to go yellow, you’ll know that the soil has a lack of nitrogen (essential for grass) in it.

You should pop down to your garden center and buy a step-system fertiliser. Not only are these really simple to use, they’re incredibly helpful for getting the grass just the right nutrients.

At this point, I think it’s important to note that you should always pull up and weeds as soon as you see them. By killing them at the root, you prevent them from spreading further; and I’m sure you know how quickly weeds can spread.

Dead patches of grass (where it’s turned dry and brown) can be a pain to deal with. The best way to repair the area is to simply start again. Rotate the soil and grass slightly, fertilise the patch and spread new seed.

When you’re waiting for the new patch to grow, you’ll really help the grass take root by watering the area often and well. Don’t drench it, but ensure that the grass has got enough water to support its growth.

That’s about all you should need to do to repair your lawn. After you have, the best piece of advice I can give you is to regularly use your strimmer and lawnmower to keep it in great condition.

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