Giving Your Lawn a Proper Care
Investing in a new lawn can provide the beautifully manicured finishing touch for your home’s curb appeal. Unfortunately, once your new lawn is laid, you could soon find what you dreamed of having and the reality is two different things. It all stems from the proper care in the first few weeks to help establish your lawn. What you do in those crucial first days can help your lawn not only thrive but also become much lower maintenance. Here are three tips from a lawn service provider for taking care of your new lawn.
Follow a Strict Watering Regime
A new lawn requires far more watering than an established lawn to encourage the roots to grow. In those first few weeks therefore you need to provide consistent moisture with thorough watering two to three times each day. The water needs to soak through the grass and reach the roots for at least a week, preferably a week and a half following your grass being laid or your newly seeded grass growing in.
Fertilize
Don’t get too set on fertilizing your new grass right away. If you have laid sod, the grass will have been fertilized at the time it was harvested, so you can wait at least a month to apply granular fertilizer to your lawn according to proper fall and spring lawn care maintenance.
Let The Blades Grow
Give your grass time to establish a longer-than-normal height of about 9 to 10 cm before you do your first lawn mowing. Once it reaches this height use a mower with sharp blades and set it to a height of about 6 to 7.5 cm in the summer months. Lawn care and equipment help you maintain the right height to keep your grass healthier and your lawn weed-free naturally. Never mow your lawn right after it rains, or you’ve watered your lawn as this can cause damage and interfere with growth.
If you need lawn service in the Hunts Point, WA area, then you can trust NE Landscaper of Hunts Point for the job. You can call us at (206) 471-0827 for more information.
