You want to love your yard throughout the year, but it’s going to take some extra special love and care over the course of the summer to make certain it looks just like it should. These tips can help:
- Mow Carefully: It’s fairly easy to mow your lawn too short in the summer. The shorter you mow it, the more exposed it sits to the hot sun. You can keep things a bit shadier by simply mowing at the highest possible recommended setting. It helps encourage that much-needed deep root growth and gives your lawn the edge it needs.
- Keep An Eye Out For Summer Diseases: Summer is the time for lawn problems. Whether it’s those dreaded brown patches or another issue, watching your lawn closely for the early signs of disease can help you treat it more effectively and bring it out of a problem once it gets started.
- Be Careful About How You Water: Many people choose to turn on the sprinkler system for a few minutes each day and give the lawn a little water here and there. That’s the single worst thing you can do for your grass. You’re not only ensuring it doesn’t get the water it needs, but you’re also encouraging weed growth that can damage it. Deep watering is a far better technique. That does mean leaving the sprinkler system on longer, but you’ll do so just a few times a week. Your lawn will develop a healthy root system and stay weed free.
- Think Weed Control: Weeds will not only damage your lush green lawn, but allowed to grow for the summer, they’ll disperse seed that will come up and throw off your lawn care program next year. Do what you can to control the weeds in your lawn, even if it means a few days of hand-pulling those little problems.
The single best thing you can do for your lawn in the warmth of the summer sun is enlist the help of a professional lawn care service. With the right understanding of what your lawn might be facing as well as the tools necessary to make it look amazing, even in the heat, residential lawn care services are the way to bring Christmas in July to your lawn!