| As we start to emerge from the cold Winter months | | | | a bit more durable. You will probably therefore want to |
| and the outside temperature starts to go up many of | | | | keep the grass a little longer, say around 3cm and not |
| us will start to think about preparing our plants for the | | | | cut as often, perhaps only once of maybe twice per |
| Summer growing season by paying some attention to | | | | week. |
| preparation in the Spring. However, while we are busy | | | | Before you start to get into the mowing habit though, |
| tending to our plants one of the things that sometimes | | | | there is some other preparation that should be carried |
| gets forgotten about in the Spring time is the lawn. | | | | out. One of the things you should consider is applying a |
| As Spring marches inevitably towards Summer then | | | | good Spring lawn fertiliser. This is a great idea because |
| the temperature also increases and the grass will start | | | | the nutrients that have been used up in the Winter |
| to grow. As the first few weeks of Spring go by you | | | | need to be replenished. |
| will need to get the mower out more often as the | | | | Before you do any of this work though, there is |
| grass starts to grow more quickly. You may also need | | | | something you need to check first. Check to see if |
| to start lowering the cutting height of your lawn | | | | you have any build up of moss in your lawn. If you do, |
| mower. There are a number of elements that will help | | | | before you apply any other lawn care, apply a lawn |
| determine how often you cut your grass and how | | | | moss killer and also lightly scarify the lawn to help with |
| short the cut will be. These include what the lawn is | | | | the moss problem. You can do this by hand or you |
| used for, what the weather is like and what type of | | | | can use a machine. Try and remove as much thatch |
| grass you have. | | | | as you can. This will allow for better drainage of your |
| For example if your lawn is fine and it is really only | | | | lawn and will disuade moss from growing. You will be |
| there for aesthetic reasons then you may want to cut | | | | giving your lawn the best possible start to the year if |
| it lower, say down to 1cm in order to get it looking | | | | you do this. |
| really neat and tidy. You may want to also increase | | | | For larger lawns I would recommend buying or hiring a |
| the frequency of cuts up to as much as three times | | | | scarifying machine. Doing the job properly by hand on |
| per week. | | | | a large lawn is really hard work. If you're doing this by |
| However if your lawn is more functional and often | | | | hand, it really is hard work. |
| used for the children to play on etc then it needs to be | | | | |