Lawn Care

Maintaining your Lawn and keeping it healthy involves using good maintenance practices during the entire growing season. This includes proper mowing, fertilizing , irrigation, controlling thatch, pest management program, weed management and insect control. These techniques will provide a healthy, dense and high quality lawn.

Spring Lawn Care Guide

Lawn cutting Basics
The way in which you cut the grass makes a big difference in, not just on how it looks, but also on how healthy and winter hardy it is. Cutting practices also have an effect on how many weeds you'll have in your lawn.

Blades: Blades should be kept sharp, Before you take the mower out of the garage, take a minute and check out the edge on your blade. It doesn't need to be as sharp as your kitchen knives, but it should be sharp. A dull blade shreds the grass blades leaving them injured and unsightly.

Height: Lawns should be cut at a height of 3 inches they are healthier and better able to out-compete most weeds. There is a direct correlation between grass height and root depth. Keeping grass cut at this height provides it with enough leaf blade to gather sunlight and produce the food it needs stay healthy, shade the grass crowns and soil, conserve moisture and crowd out weeds.

Frequency: You should cut often enough so that you never remove more than 1/3 of the height of the grass at a time. Almost all lawn grasses grown in these climates are cool-season grasses that are most active during the coolest parts of the season: spring, early summer and fall. How fast grass grows depends on its health and the weather, as well as how much it is fertilized and watered.

Clippings: In a healthy lawn (and when you cut often enough) grass clippings provide a natural fertilizer and lots of organic matter. Clippings are often mistakenly blamed for thatch buildup. They can contribute to thatch when your lawn isn't healthy, but in a healthy lawn, clippings are quickly broken down by all the activities going on in the thatch layer