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- Are Husqvarna Lawn mowers good for my garden?
- I’ve just purchased my first house and the previous owners did not take care of the lawn?
- Regarding self-propelled lawn mowers, do you prefer front or rear wheeled drive?
- which oil is better for lawn mowers?
- what would cause my tires on my riding lawn mower to leave yellow(burnt) stripes in my grass?
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Growing and Maintaining the Grass that Makes Neighbors Green with Envy
Growing and maintaining a healthy lawn is difficult to do in this day and age with global warming on our minds but it isn’t as difficult as it looks. Watering your lawn at dusk or before sunrise can mean the difference between a full, green lawn and a choppy, brown lawn. It just takes time and a little bit of effort. Everyone wants to have the perfect lawn like their neighbor but just can’t figure out how to go about doing it.
What Do Great Lawns Look Like?
What do great lawns look like? It is tough to say but great lawns almost look like they are fake. You look out the window and see nothing but green grass and wonder is that really their lawn or is it Astroturf? Most great looking lawns do not have any dead patches of grass in them, they don’t have brown spots anywhere and they don’t have weeds growing out of the ground every five feet.
How Do I Get a Great Lawn?
Aside from purchasing Astroturf, acquiring a great lawn takes time and effort. You must first lay down seed for grass to grow, water that seed after dusk and before sunrise and cut the lawn at least once per week so it does not become overgrown. Even when the grass has grown in and the seed has done its job you should still water the lawn to make sure it takes on as much green coloring as possible. If you own a pet, especially a dog, try not to let it use the lawn as its personal bathroom. Walk the dog to the community’s common ground, that’s what its for. The acid in a dog’s urine can and will kill areas of the lawn that it uses to go to the bathroom on. That is where the majority of brown spots come from.
Another way besides naturally growing a lawn is to purchase sod. Sod can be purchased at almost any local garden center or large hardware store chain with a garden center. The sod will be delivered and then laid down on your property to look like a lawn. It is imperative that you water the sod at least twice a day for a couple of weeks so the roots can sink into the ground and begin to grow as a part of your lawn.
Different Lawn Grasses
There are thousands of different lawn grasses in the world today but the four most common types of lawn grass grown today are bluegrass, bent grass, ryegrasses and fescues. Other types are:
-Carpet grass
-Centipede grass
-Grama grass
-Buffalo grass
-Bahia grass
-Bermuda grass
-Zoysia grass
-St. Augustine grass
All of the grasses listed above can only be grown in warm temperatures and will more than like be killed when temps drop below -15 degrees Celsius. The first four grasses mentioned above can be grown in cold temperatures and will continue to grow thicker even as the temperatures continue to decline.
