Weed and lawn care can get out of hand when the weeds just keep sprouting. Where do they keep coming from? How can you stop them? If you love gardening, but weeding is pushing you out of it, what can you do? Here are a few tips for weed control and lawn care:

  1. The dirt in your lawn and garden harbors at least thousands of weed seeds. So why don’t these all come up? Only the weed seeds in the soil’s top inch or so get enough light to sprout. Germination depends on light, so those seeds buried deeper won’t sprout if they never see that light. This means avoid tilling or digging that you don’t need to do. The more precise you are with your digging, the fewer seeds will come up in the dirt.
  2. Mulch helps plants maintain moisture while shading weed seeds from light. It’s one of the best things for weed control. Keep it around 2 inches deep. Approaching 3 inches means the soil won’t get enough oxygen. We also recommend always leaving a barrier between mulch and your home. A six inch barrier without mulch creates a dry zone that many pests won’t cross – this allows you to use mulch without worrying about pests going from mulch into your home.
  3. If you see a weed, pull it. Common sense, right? Weed and lawn care are much more manageable when you just make it a habit to pull a weed the minute you see it. This saves you from having to schedule weeding time that you want to avoid.
  4. Lawn and weed care is about what’s practical. If there’s a weed you can’t dig out at the roots, then lop off its head. At least this eliminates the seeding parts and forces the weed to use its nutrients re-growing these seeds. You may leave one weed still growing, but you just prevented a hundred more from floating away. Keep weed control practical, not obsessive.
  5. Look for a weed and lawn care company to help you. There are many preventative steps to weed control and lawn care that a professional can utilize. Prevention keeps you from having to do that much more work later. The best lawn and weed care is preventing weeds in the first place. This kind of weed control is where a professional helps most.

Contact Slug-A-Bug for your Brevard County lawn care and weed control needs today.