Having a lush, green and beautiful lawn enhances the look of your house manifolds. Colorful flowers, green plants and well manicured grass gives immense pleasure to the eye. All of these things require good maintenance and proper care.
A beautiful appearance of your lawn shows, you know exactly how to improve the aesthetics of your house. A lush green lawn in your house makes the environment fresh, serene and pure.
Caring for your lawn would mean preventing insects and pest that could eat the leaves or the grass. Weeds must be removed regularly and garbage should be kept out of it. Proper watering of the grass and plants is essential. Adding manure, fertilizers, keeping soil healthy, mowing and cutting must be your routine work in maintaining a good looking lawn.
The first step towards a healthy lawn is to choose the kinds of plants and grass that are capable of surviving in the climate of the place you live in. Not only plants but grasses are of various types that survive in varying climatic conditions.
Having a healthy soil for your plants is very important. It is essential to keep a check on the pH level of the soil of your grass and plants. The kind of soil that has to be laid down before you plant your grass and trees differs from each other. Organic matters must be added from time to time in the soil for the healthy growth of the plants and grass. Addition of such organic matters provides required nutrition to the grass and helps it retain water too.
Mowing of the grass is also very important. They need to be cut with sharp bladed cutters to avoid harming the grass by tearing its leaves. Trimming the grass will result in a healthy growth and a well manicured look. The best length of the grass should be anything from 2.1/2 inch to 3.1/2 inch. Mower must be adjusted accordingly.
Watering the plants seems to be the simplest task but it needs a lot of care too. Watering too much would damage the grass. Optimum amount of water must be sprinkled all over and not a single area or a bunch of grass should be left without water. In summers water your plants early in the morning so that they are ready for the sunny day that lies ahead. Watering in a way that leaves about an inch of water above the ground would be sufficient as then the soil will absorb around six to eight inches deep water. Before you water your plants again let the lawn dry completely.
Thatches must be removed every now and then before they grow too deep. Their growth leads to absorption of lesser nutrients and water leading to damaged grass. Whenever you find them grown too much cut them off. More than optimum use of fertilizers results in thwarted growth.
Caring for your lawn requires time devotion and love for nature. Your plants can feel your love for them so take good care of them and see them happily swaying in cool breeze.
