7 Lawn Treatment Tips for the Best Looking Lawn on the Block

Your lawn needs just as much love as any garden. A good lawn brings all the elements of your yard together, creating a perfect space for fun and relaxation. It also works wonders for curb appeal.

Lawn care is a bit more involving than most people realize. It involves trimming, mowing, watering, weed removal, fertilizing, soil health, and more. A thorough lawn care program involves services like pest control and soil testing to ensure your turf is healthy and disease-free. And this is in addition to your lawn maintenance responsibilities like removing debris, edging borders, and mowing grass.

Keeping your lawn healthy and luscious can be overwhelming. So, here are some lawn treatment tips to make the process less tasking so you can achieve a thick, lush green lawn.

1. Establish a Lawn Care Calendar

Mowing is one of the most important processes for maintaining a healthy lawn. Ideally, you should cut your lawn at least once a week during the summer months and once every two weeks during the rest of the year.

If you’ve already established a great-looking lawn, then your priority will be maintaining the health of the grass year-round. If not, autumn is the perfect time of year to start again with your lawn treatment – as temperatures are still warm enough to sustain growth.

2. Get to Know Your Soil

The fastest way to a beautiful, healthy lawn starts with healthy living soil. And nothing contributes to the health of your soil more than a thick, rich organic lawn. It’s a symbiotic relationship.

Although the way a lawn looks is a good indicator of the overall health of the soil, the only way to know for sure what lawn treatments it needs is to do a soil test. Taking a soil sample to your local agriculture extension office helps you understand which fertilizer you should use and whether nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium levels are sufficient.

Everything else is mere guesswork and could lead to over-fertilizing your lawn, which could kill your grass in the worst-case scenario.

3. Use Natural Lawn Fertilizers

Nitrogen is what gives your lawn that lush green color. Lawns should be fed with fertilizer at most twice a year – in spring and autumn. Natural lawn fertilizers are made from organic matter and can improve the health of your lawn without introducing potentially harmful substances into the soil and water.

Depending on the health of your soil, spring feed should be high in nitrogen to facilitate growth, whereas autumn feed should be high in phosphorous and potassium to toughen the grass for harsh winter weather.

4. “Grass-Cycle” Your Grass Clippings

Grasscycling is simply the process of leaving leftover grass clipping on your yard after mowing. As the clippings break down, they improve the health of your soil as they contain moisture and valuable nutrients. What’s more, grass clippings decompose fairly quickly, providing your lawn with a ready source of nutrients.

Not only does grasscycling improve the texture of your lawn by helping the soil retain more water, but it’s also an environmentally friendly option.

5. Aerate Your Lawn

Aerating, or spiking, involves perforating the soil with small holes to allow air, water, and nutrients to penetrate the grass roots. It relieves soil compaction and enhances growth. Aerate your lawn in the spring and the autumn for best results and when your lawn gets compacted.

On that note, make a point of regularly removing weeds, thatch, and moss as they can prevent growth by blocking air and nutrients from getting to the roots.

6. Pre-Emergent and Targeted Weed Control

Weed control helps improve your lawn’s natural defenses and reduce future maintenance chores. Finding the right weed treatment plan requires you to understand:

• The different types of weeds
• Their growing seasons
• And how to treat them based on these conditions

Weeds are a problem you need to deal with sooner rather than later. Do so by using weeding tools to get rid of deep-rooted dandelions or get a weed killer if your yard is run over with weeds. You can even use a pre-emergent herbicide to stop weeds from germinating.

7. Watering

A lawn needs enough water for it to grow bright green– that much is clear. What’s less clear is how much and how often you should water your lawn. Too little water and your lawn will shrivel up and die; too much and it’ll become over-saturated and die.

The best method for lawn watering is to water deeply and infrequently unless you’re going through a dry spell. If the weather is especially dry, then it’s best to have a consistent irrigation schedule.

Maintain the Perfect Lawn with a Professional Landscaper

Lawn care involves a combination of simple daily and weekly tasks that you can do yourself. You can also get a little bit of help from a landscaping professional, particularly if you’re dealing with bare patches, pests, or weeds.

Get in touch to see how we can help you get the perfect lawn.

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