Lawn Tips

It’s important to have a strong lawn to stand up to all this rain we’ve had and the threat of a dry summer to follow. To ensure you have a strong lawn it needs to have strong roots. To ensure strong roots you have to ensure the grass is fed and watered properly.

Here are a few timely tips for a healthier lawn:

1. Cut your grass at a 3” height - All northern grasses (Ky Bluegrass, Fescue and Rye) should be cut at 3” tall. Each grass blade is a water reservoir for the plant so the taller the grass the more water it retains. The height of your grass is equivalent to the depth of their roots.

3. Ensure your lawn gets 1/2” of water per week - First you need to know how much rain your lawn has received or will receive for the week and make up the difference with a sprinkler. If you have a lawn sprinkler system, you need to set your timer to manual mode so you can monitor how much water you lawn receives. The easiest way to ensure you get the required amount of water is to place a straight sided glass in the area you are watering and when it fills with 1/2” of water, change to the next area of your lawn that needs watering.

Plant Tips

If you have a few areas of your landscape that are lacking color, get to the garden center and take a look around - you will find several varieties that bloom most if not all summer. Some of the shrubs that will keep flowering if we

When fertilizing your outside plants, please read the instructions. Don’t over-feed. A little more fertilizer doesn’t give you better results it could actually have the opposite effect.