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Everything You Need To Know About Lawn And Lawn Care -- Discover Guidelines

By: Nathan Knightley

A large amount of valuable nutrients can be added to your lawn by letting it reclaim these same nutrients from the clipped grass pieces. Some of you might think that adding grass clippings or mulched leaves and branches will add or promote thatch to the lawn, but this is not true. For the most part, the more nutrients the better, and lawn clippings are very suitable to help the living lawn.

Each time you mow try not to mow the entire yard, but rather 1/3 of the overall yard. Also, cover a different 1/3 of the yard each time you mow. For example, if you begin at a 3 o'clock position in your yard and go to a 7 o'clock position one time, start at 5 or 6 and go to 11. Keep the mowing pattern varied and you'll have a healthier lawn.

Try to remove new weeds before they get older, more established and just plain harder to remove.

Every week, most lawns need about 1-2 inches of water. By watering the lawn early in the morning (4-9AM) it doesn't have a chance to encourage mold or fungus like nighttime watering does. This also keeps the sun from burning up all the moisture, thus robbing your lawn and your pocketbook.

While more natural nutrients like those from compost or grass clippings really can't be overdone, the use of commercial fertilizer certainly can be overdone. You run the risk of poisoning your lawn in the long term if you overdo the recommended doses of fertilizer for your lawn.

Beside cutting grass better and more consistently, powerful and efficient lawn mowers have lower gas emissions, which is better for the environment. Of course a manual or electric mower is even better for the environment, but you must think about other performance issues that come along with these other mower types before you get one. onkeyup="cntWords(this,document.postform.c)"> onkeyup="cntWords(this,document.postform.c)">

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Nathan Knightley a well known novelist is also an Internet aficionado and sincerely takes time sharing his info with readers like you. Learn more now about Lawn Care and about Lawn And LawnCare Tips at his web site www.lawnandlawncare.com

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