Regular mowing makes a lawn dense and attractive. The cutting of grass stimulates the grass plant to form new side-shoots, leaf blades and runners, and weeds are effectively suppressed.
Category: Lawn Care
A lawn is not just a lawn!
A wide variety of demands are placed upon turfed areas depending on their use. Different examples include home lawns, park lawn and grass on a sports field. Virtually no other plant is subjected to such high demands as lawn grasses are. They are continuously being stepped on, rolled on, played on, but must nevertheless remain pleasant to the eye.
Three elements that the soil needs to contain and vital for health plant growth are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and are required in large quantities if plants are to grow strong. This means that these plant nutrients must be applied regularly if you are to keep your plants in good health. Compost or manure will supply a proportion of these nutrients but fertilizers will provide the main source.
During the winter months, leaves die off and the wind blows leaves and foliage from trees and bushes onto the lawn. Spring lawn care is extremely important at this time of year and this post hopes to identify some of the tasks you may be facing in the coming months
There are many things to consider when choosing a new garden tractor or rider. In this post we try and cover some of the factors that will influence your decision and enable you to buy a suitable garden rider for your needs.
A garden tiller, cultivator or rotatavor is an essential part of a gardener’s arsenal in the preparation of the soil ready for the up coming spring. Use a tiller on flower beds, gardens and allotments. In this articles we talk about garden tillers and how to use them.
In this post we give details on some of the important gardening jobs for January include pruning, digging, sawing, chipping, planting, preventing snow & ice and much more.
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