Transforming Your Lawn with Proper Care
ORGANIC LAWN CARE
Spring Lawn Care and Management
While spring is in the air, your yard may still be looking quite bare without proper care. Make your lawn the envy of the neighborhood with these tips for maintenance throughout the season. To obtain optimum performance from your lawn it is important to employ the appropriate management practices at the correct times of year. As the world outside finally begins to turn green after a long winter, it’s time once again to pay attention to your lawn. To create a thriving, beautiful lawn, you need to hit the ground running in the spring. Here are some of the best practices for a beautiful lawn you can employ this spring and summer.
Overseeding
The most optimal time to seed your lawn is during the late summer or early fall. However, spring is still a great time to rejuvenate a barren or thin turf through overseeding. In the spring, overseeding should be done after aerating the turf and loosening the soil. Always mow your lawn lower than normal before overseeding and rake the soil to loosen it up so the seeds can germinate better, and plant seeds according to the directions provided with the seeds. We recommend utilizing a spreader for overseeding, though you can do small areas by hand. You’ll want to feed and water your seeds, typically you just want to keep the soil moist and lightly water it with about 1 inch per week, ideally in the morning when air temperatures are lower, just to keep the soil moist once the lawn is established.
Fertilization
Fertilization is one of the most important aspects to improve the quality of your turf and make your grass shine. Grass requires nitroge, potassium, and phosphates which come from soil naturally, however more can help. To accurately determine what exactly your soil needs, you will require a soil test for the best results. Soil tests can be done for free in many places or for a fee.
We also recommend top dressing your turf for the best results, which is basically just adding a thin layer of soil onto your turf to improve the soil quality. Top dressing can be helpful for uneven terrain and other unsightly common lawn problems such as bare spots and discolored grass from a lack of nutrients, and most importantly improves your soil’s condition, providing an ideal environment for your grass to grow in.
The best fertilizer typically for turfgrasses are a slow release organic nitrogen fertilizer or you can go with a compost tea brew. Typically the best time to apply is in late Spring or in the early Fall.
Aeration
Aeration creates a system of pores within your soil to carry nutrients and moisture to your soil. This is done by removing plugs of soil with a core aerator, which allows the soil to breathe much more easier. Aeration is ideally done during the early spring for cool season grasses, and in the late spring for warm season grasses, but can be done as late as the summer and fall. We recommend aeration for any one looking to revitalize their lawn completely as it is great for older, thin patches of grass that are unsightly. Aerating and proper fertilization with lead to a much more vigorous lawn with proper and luscious green growth all over.
If you’re in need of help employing turf care solutions to beautify your yard, get in contact with Lincoln Landscaping today and we’ll get started on the road to a beautiful lawn and garden and get your turf looking it’s best!
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And with all of that, the basis of any lush green lawn is within it’s foundation, the very soil itself.
At Lincoln Landscaping cultivating the environment is our life and livelihood. It is our number one goal to help our clients create and maintain beautiful landscapes and organic lawns while reducing the impact on the environment. Whether you are interested in organic lawn care, a pollinator landscape garden design and build or other landscaping or property management project; we can create for you an environmentally friendly, organic and beautiful property through sustainable landscaping and lawn care practices.
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