Maintaining Your Lawn
Briggs & Stratton, the market leaders in lawn mowing
equipment have set out some basic guidelines for making your lawn lush green
and beautiful using their lawn mowers.
Similar to the human body, grass also requires proper
nourishments to grow healthily and give us a feeling and look of a green
carpet. Grass required around 16 types of nutrients for rich and healthy
growth. However some of these are adequately found in the soil of most of the
lawns and needs to be provided artificially. Some of the pertinent questions
asked by every day lawn maintainers are as below:
What type of fertilizer to use?
Briggs & Stratton advises to use a mix water soluble
nitrogen and non-soluble nitrogen in proper proportion. The proportions of both
types of nitrogen would be available from the fertilizer retailer who can give
proper guidance. The website yarddoctor.com provides a wonderful guide on grass
maintenance for any kind of lawn.
When To Fertilize My Lawn?
Fertilizers must be applied to al lawn when the grass is
actively growing. Normally it start from the spring season and ends with the
fall season. Fertilizers should be applied when there is spurt of growth so
that the growth if more better and greener and should be avoided when lean
growth is noticed.
How to use fertilizer?
Fertilizers should be applied uniformly
all over the lawn. Usually garden hose sprays are used after mixing the
fertilizers in a water tank and using the fertilizer mixed water as a source
for the sprayer unit. Uniform spraying ensures all-round equal growth of grass
and your lawn gives a lush green look instead of a look with some bald like
patches.
Briggs & Stratton advised that you must leave the grass clipping on the lawn itself instead of carrying it elsewhere. This ensures that the decomposed clipping provide nutrition to the growing grass as it gets converted to compost lying out in the sun and rain. This enhances the growth potential of the grass and reduces your fertilizer budget as well.