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Not everyone has the time
to spend on a full year-round lawn maintenance routine, if this
applies to you then here are a few easy jobs you can carry out which
will make a difference to your lawn in a short space of time.
Mowing
The easiest way to make
it look as if you are on top of your lawn maintenance is to mow your
lawn regularly. A lawn really needs to be cut every time it grows
about 1cm longer than you want it. If you leave a lawn to grow too
long and then cut it short, it will look unhappy for a while,
because you will have cut into the thick, brown or yellow stems at
the base of the plants, instead of through lush green leaf blades.
Regular mowing produces a greener, denser, harder-wearing lawn.
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Start mowing in spring,
as soon as the grass is dry enough, with the blades set high just to
slice the top off. Lower the blades as the lawn gets used to being
cut but if the weather turns dry in summer, raise the blades again
to reduce stress to the grass. As the weather turns colder in
autumn, raise the blades back up to their spring level, but don't
give up cutting the grass for the winter as it will keep growing
unless it's really cold.
It's up to you whether
you prefer to use a grass-box or not but lawns tend to look better
if you do.
Edging
After cutting the grass,
trim around the edges with edging shears. However, before you can
use edging shears, you need a lawn edge - a shallow, neat-edged
gully all around your beds and borders with a vertical drop. Hold
the blade of the shears against this flat surface as you cut.
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Top Dressing
Top dressing your lawn
will enhance its appearance, stimulate new grass grown, level an
uneven lawn, improve drainage and wear and tear and reduce thatch.
Top dressing can be done at any time but is probably best done in
Spring or Autumn when the ground isn't too dry.
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Feeding
An essential part of your
regular lawn maintenance is feeding. All lawns need feeding if they
are to look good. The most important time to feed is in late spring,
as that's the start of the growing season, but you can keep feeding
every six weeks until autumn to keep grass looking lush.
Spring and summer grass
feeds are high in nitrogen and so produce a rich green lawn but
during autumn use a formula that is low in nitrogen but high in
phosphate and potash to toughen up the roots ready for winter.
Alternatively use an
organic lawn fertilizer once a month which releases nutrients over a
longer period of time than other lawn foods. If you want to improve
your lawn without making it grow any faster (so it doesn't need so
much mowing), use an autumn lawn feed during summer instead.
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