Tips for a Better-Looking Lawn
Choosing Assure Home and Lawn Solutions is your first step to a better, healthier-looking lawn. Although you can depend on us for quality services, you can implement a few practices to ensure the best results possible. Mowing and watering your lawn properly is nearly as important as the treatments we provide.
When Mowing
Maintain a healthy cut height of 3-4 inches.
- Shorter cuts can scalp the lawn, cause shallow roots, and allow direct sunlight to dry out the soil, leading to more weeds.
- Taller cuts can allow thatch to build up faster, shade out new growth, and restrict airflow allowing grass to stay wet, making it favorable to disease.
Keep blades sharp.
- Dull blades tear the crown of the grass blade. This injures the grass allowing disease to take over, and also gives the tips an unappealing brown look.
Mulch your clippings/use a mulching blade.
- Clippings are full of nutrients that break down and return to the lawn.
- Side discharging can leave long strands that do not break down quickly and add to thatch.
- Bagging clippings remove nutrients that your lawn needs.
When Watering.
- Water lawn in the early morning.
- Watering at night can leave grass blades wet for a prolonged time leading to disease.
- Watering in the afternoon can allow the sun and heat to cause water to evaporate before it can reach root level.
- Watering in the early morning allows water to reach root level before evaporating and allows excess water to be dried by sunlight.
Water for longer periods but often less.
- Frequent short watering doesn’t penetrate soil deep enough and causes shallow roots.
- 1.5 inches of watering should penetrate the soil layer 6 inches deep to reach all roots adequately.
- Average sprinkler system takes around 30 minutes to provide ½ inch of water.
- Watering for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per week is better than watering 15-20 minutes every day.
- Periods of heat and drought may require additional watering, but periods of high precipitation may require no additional watering from you.
