Lawn
Lawns, gardens, and landscapes interact with each other, and with your home. The interaction is always there, and will always be there! How you handle the transition from one to the other, will largely determine your success as a home owner.
Lawns represent the connection between the great outdoors and your dwelling place. A lawn is where your family and pets first make contact with the wider world, and a lawn is usually the first place a child comes into direct physical contact with nature.
It is important that it be clean and free from stinging and biting insects, rodents and reptiles. It is also important that it be free of any pesticides that might cause injury to the more tender nervous systems of children.
The pages of this section will help you to reach this goal. The pages listed below are a sample of the variety of traditional lawn care practices and the non traditional practices we cover:
Lawn Treatment And Cultural Practices
The best lawn treatment for any lawn, is to make sure that the lawn is healthy. No amount of any other lawn treatment can overcome the damage done by poor cultural practices. No lawn treatment known to man can benefit a lawn as much as good cultural practices!
Lawn Care And Lawn Pest Control
Proper lawn care and lawn pest control go hand in hand. In fact, if your handle your lawn care properly, most of your lawn pest control problems will be gone. Lawn care and lawn pest control In this, like most other activities, balance is the key.
Lawn Care Tips Germinating Grass Seed Before Planting
Sometimes you may need to fill in some bare spots in your lawn, or maybe even start over with your lawn. Want to jump start your new lawn, or your lawn repairs? Want to make your neighbors wonder how you got a new lawn in just a few days?
Lawn Mowing Tips Mower Size
Lawn Mowing Tips Mowing Frequency
If there is a secret to the perfect lawn, it is this: Mow often! Mowing often offers many advantages, frequent mowing: Removes less blade leaf each time, so the grass suffers less shock. Encourages lateral growth of tillers and stolons, which thickens the turf. Reduces the need for water. Decreases fertilizer needs since smaller clippings revert to nitrogen quickly.
Lawn Clippings Environment and Fertility
Bahia Grass Control In Lawns And Turf
Bahia grass control in lawns and turf Bahia grass is an invader! Bahia grass is an invasive weed in the southern United States. No matter what officials may say. Sure, it can help to control erosion along highway right of ways, like almost any aggressive grass or vine species, but what is the cost of the cure?
We cover many more traditional and non traditional lawn care techniques on our:
