Tips For Making Your Lawn Greener

Making your lawn greener requires extra effort to maintain it and time to devote to take care of it. Your lawn will have a better chance of greening up if you preserve it properly and provide plenty aeration of its roots to encourage optimum growth.

Here are some tips for making your lawn greener:

1)    Watering

Make sure you water your lawn regularly and preferably very early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid the hot times during day. In doing so, the water will hold in better and will green up your lawn more. Instead, if you water you lawn at noon when the sun is up, you can actually cause damage because the sun heats up the water and burns your lawn’s roots. You may also use a sprinkler system. If you don’t have one, buy one that can cover a really large area. Sprinkling your lawn for 5-10 minutes per day is quite enough to maintain it really green.

If there are any water restrictions in your area you should consider them and have a type of lawn that can be maintained with the amount of water that is available at your disposal.

2)      Mowing

When mowing your lawn you may apply the techniques that golf course landscape professionals implement when cutting greens. In particular:

* Cut your grass regularly, at least once a week.

* Don’t cut your grass too short. Depending on your mower type, set the blade height accordingly. If you cut off more than a third of the height of the lawn, you may be decreasing your chances of achieving a greener effect. Make sure that your mower has sharpened blades and is in good condition.

* Cut your grass on a different direction every week. If your grass grows the same direction, it becomes weak and fragile. To be able to keep a track of the directions cut your grass in an alternate direction like a clock from 12 to 6, then opposite from 3-9, then opposite from 10-4, then opposite from 8-2. For instance, if you cut your lawn this week in a 12 to 6 direction, next week you will cut in a 3 to 9 direction and so on. In that way, you will always be cutting your grass on a different direction.

* Do the mowing either very early in the morning or late at night.

Overall, your lawn needs to be tidy and neat to become greener. Instead, if you keep it in a messy, chopped up state, it is more likely to develop diseases.

3)      Fertilizing

It is very important to fertilize your lawn at least four times a year at the beginning of each season with a good quality product. There are certain fertilizers that are suited to different times of the year as well as commercial and organic garden products. So, it’s up to you to choose what you want for your lawn. However, make sure not to use too much fertilizer so that you don’t burn your lawn. Instead, if you follow the tips and instructions properly your lawn will be green and healthy.

Apart from watering, mowing and fertilizing, make sure you weed out any foreign plants from your lawn to let its roots breathe. Also, if you plan on using weed killers and poisons on your lawn, make sure to choose those that are less likely to affect your health and your lawn’s health because of their chemicals.