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Common Mistakes to Avoid in Caring for and Maintaining Your Lawn

  • Perla Irish
  • April 3, 2022
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  1. Not Testing the Soil
  2. Buying the Wrong Type of Seed
  3. Planting Just One Type of Seed
  4. Scalping the Lawn
  5. Watering Too Frequently

As you are in the process of building a new house, you must also be spending time and effort on planning the little outdoor space that you have always dreamt of. A lawn beautifully enhances the appearance of a house.

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Common Mistakes to Avoid in Caring for and Maintaining Your Lawn

It is like a little piece of green that never fails to rejuvenate you every morning as you look at it while sipping your tea or taking a stroll on it. However, caring for the lawn and maintaining it well is different.

And most often, homeowners end up committing mistakes that ruin the lawn. Let’s look into some of these common mistakes so that they can be avoided at all costs.

Not Testing the Soil

This is one of the biggest and most primary mistakes that you can commit. When you plan to create a lawn, make sure that the first thing you do is send the soil for testing to a local service provider.

 Any specialized service provider will be best able to tell you as to what your soil needs to keep your grass healthy. Remember that grasses thrive in soil that has a pH of 6 -6.5.

Buying the Wrong Type of Seed

Many homeowners fail to realize the fact that most grass seed contains weed. When you go about buying seeds, check the label and you will see a proportion of the percentages of ‘weed seed’ and ‘other crop’ contained in the bag. You should ideally look for premium seeds that contain 0% weed.

Planting Just One Type of Seed

You might be fond of a particular type of grass but planting different types of seeds enables your laws to become established. Wondering why so? Because each seed has its strength and weakness and they offset each other.

You need to, therefore, select the right turf of grass. Turf with more than one type of seed survives adverse conditions better, be it heat or drought, compared to the single-seed lawn.

 Lawn care service experts usually recommend a combination of 50% bluegrass and 50% fescue. The latter allows the lawn to be durable and tough.

Scalping the Lawn

Scalping the lawn, which involves mowing the grass too short, is actually very harmful to the plants and puts them into shock. If you cut off too much of the grass blade, it is unable to absorb sunshine and thereby, perform photosynthesis through the leaves.

The root system of the grasses is also weakened as a result. The mower height should be about 2.5 inches and should not cut off more than 1/3 of the grass blade at once.


Read Also:

  • The Benefits of Artificial Grass and How It Can Make Your Property Great
  • Lawn Mowing Tips for Healthy Grass, The Proper Way to Mow the Lawn
  • 7 Crucial Tips in Picking the Right Grass Seed for Your Lawn

Watering Too Frequently

You might wonder as to what is wrong with watering your lawn. Too much watering discourages the grass from developing a deep root system, which is necessary for absorbing the water from the depths of the soil.

Well, in reality, lawn care experts recommend maintaining a deep but infrequent watering schedule all through the year. The thumb rule is one-third of an inch of water thrice a week.

Avoiding these mistakes and seeking the help of a specialized service provider can promise you with a perfect lawn with healthy, green grasses.

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Perla Irish

Perla Irish, who is more familiarly known as Irish, is the Content Manager at Dreamlandsdesign.com. She loves following trends around home and garden, interior design, and digital marketing. Through this blog, Irish wants to share information and help readers solve the problems they are experiencing.

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