How To Feed Your Lawn
Scattering the fertilizers in your lawn is just not good enough to give it that rich and lush green carpet like look. Fertilizers speak for themselves where they have been applied. The lush green carpet may turn into an ugly brown one with some green patches here and there if there one mistake in fertilizer application. Briggs & Stratton advises that ideal fertilizer application should aim at application of the desired quantum of fertilizer in the desired place at the desired time. Unless all three requirements are met, your lawn may become a useless tract of brown grass.
Usually
fertilizers are applied using three methods.
Firstly, the garden hose is used as a liquid sprayer using an
appropriate
attachment. Secondly, use of drop spreader and thirdly broadcast or
rotary
spreader. Typically most lawn owners have garden hoses readily
available, but
their use does not ensure uniform application of fertilizers. Use of a
drop
spreader requires movement of the spreader in every inch of the lawn
just like
a mower. On the other hand the rotary spreader is the most easy to use
and most
efficient too as it can cover a huge area in a short time.
Briggs
& Stratton further advises that the directions
of use of the fertilizers must be followed properly to ensure the
prescribed
dosage of fertilizers as deficit or excess of fertilizers is bad for
the grass.
The quantum of fertilized must be used as per direction in the label in
context
of the area of the lawn to be covered in the process of fertilizer
application.
To reduce the need of fertilizers you may leave the clipping on the
lawn itself
to provide the soil natural bio degradable manure. Care must be taken
that
liquid fertilizers do not find their way into water lines. It is
advisable to
add fertilizers to the lawn irrigations systems so that the fertilizer
application does not require human intervention.