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Articles about lawns (0-50 of 1166)
- Wise Up .... On Grass, With Jai Cheswick
By: Professor Michael Benfield PhD | - THE GRUNT
If, like me, your teenage chore was to mow the lawn or if your partner kicks you out of the house to cut tracks through a jungle of growth before Sunday lunch you will soon have realised the importance of regular maintenance to keep your grass looking, if not first rate, at least half decent and easier to cut.
MAKING IT EASIER
I often thought to myself 'What will make this job easier?' and aside from blackmailing my brother into doing the work the ...
Tags: Lawn seed, lawn turf, growing grass, mowing grass, maintaining lawns, easy gardening, gardening advice
- Making Every Drop Count When Watering Lawns
By: QW HON | - Watering the lawn is not cheap and because many municipalities have set guidelines as to the number of times that homeowners can water, it can be against the law too. Along with those factors also comes the shortage of water that the world faces. That is the reason that homeowners should make every drop count when they are watering their lawns. Instead of allowing water to run down the street, or flood one area of the yard and not touch another, there are other ways to ensure that the yard gets ...
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- Old Houses, New Lawns: Choosing Between Sod And Seed
By: SA HOME | - As you complete your home remodeling project, you might notice that the polished look of your house contrasts with your under-watered, weed-ridden, and sparse lawn. If you are ready to attack your landscaping challenges but need some guidance, Old House Web can help. Old House Web's free lawn analysis gives you a detailed summary of the current health of your lawn, its growing conditions, and how to improve its overall appearance. Once you know the state of your lawn, you will know what steps to ...
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- Fairy Ring Disease On Lawns: Not So Magical
By: SA HOME | - When you first notice a fairy ring on your lawn, you might find it enchanting. Folklore holds that these delicate circles of mushrooms were created by fairies, who danced in a ring on the grass after everyone else was asleep. Upon closer observation, however, you might be less impressed. Often, fairy rings are accompanied by areas of darker green grass growth and brown, dying grass. Either set of symptoms can mar the appearance of lawns.
What Causes Fairy Rings on Lawns?
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- Your Lawn Needs Air, Too: Benefits Of Lawn Aeration
By: SA HOME | - It's amazing what a little fresh air can do for people, pets, and even lawns. While it might not be possible to take your lawn for a nice, bracing drive in the country, you can improve its health with a process called aeration. Every lawn needs to be aerated at some point in its life. To see if yours is due, consider getting a lawn analysis. An analysis will tell you about the general health of your lawn and whether your lawn's soil could benefit from aeration.
What Is Lawn A ...
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- Fighting Dandelions In Your Lawn The Natural Way
By: SA HOME | - Along with warmer days, gentle rain showers, and robins' return to our lawns, dandelions are harbingers of spring. Their bright yellow flowers seem full of optimism and renewed life--as long as you do not have a lawn that is filled with them. Many people reach for the herbicide at the first signs of dark green, toothed leaves, yellow blossoms, and white puffballs. However, there is no need to resort to such drastic measures. With a little bit of effort, you can conquer your dandelion problem wit ...
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- Grass Lands: Picking The Right Lawn For Your Location
By: SA HOME | - In the course of your home renovation, you've tackled some tough projects. You have refinished floors, repaired cracked plaster, and patched up outdated plumbing. Now you have a new challenge: your front yard. Lawns offer a clean, crisp backdrop for your home, and your yard should be just as beautiful as the rest of your house. You would never use spray paint to cover the interior walls of your home. Similarly, you should never plant zoysia grass in your yard if you live in Northern Michigan. To ...
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- Three Tips To Creating A Virtual English Garden
By: SA HOME | - There's nothing quite like a well-manicured backyard lawn in the summertime. It can be perfect for pick-up games, family gatherings, or just walking around in your bare feet. If you love your backyard and want to maximize your enjoyment of it, check out these three simple management tips that can enhance its inner beauty.
Lawn Care Tip #1: Facilitate Drainage
If your backyard features rolling elevation, sometimes rain and irrigation can gather into large puddles. ...
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- Backyard Pest Control: Purple Martins Depend On You!
By: SA HOME | - Spending time outdoors without being buzzed and bitten by flying insects can be a challenge, but purple martins can help by consuming hundreds of flying insects a day. Here's how to attract purple martins to your backyard. (Note: Purple martins nest throughout the eastern U.S., but winter in Central and South America. If you live outside of their nesting range, providing a martin house typically will not attract purple martins to your backyard.)
Backyard Apartment Communities ...
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- From Brown Lawn To Emerald Green: 5 Maintenance Tips
By: SA HOME | - According to Cindy McNatt, garden columnist for the Orange County Register, the causes of your brown lawn can range from grub infestations to seasonal weeds, to grasses dying in the summer or fall. Here are five tips from the Department of Entomology at Indiana State University that can take your lawn from brown to beaming green in no time.
5 Practical Lawn Care Tips
1. Fight Snow Mold. As winter turns to spring, melting snow and ice can cause a collection of water t ...
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- Eliminating Weeds: To Get Rid Of Them, You Must Understand Them
By: SA HOME | - Regular lawn maintenance means removing weeds from your lawn. At the first sign of weeds, many homeowners run to the local home and garden center to purchase caustic chemicals. When it comes to lawn care, this can be a major mistake. Eliminating weeds can be accomplished by knowing what kind of weeds you have and how they behave.
Weeds Have Unique Personalities
Before you load up your sprayer and hit your lawn with a blast of Roundup, consider this: weeds, just l ...
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- Green Decor: Blooming Plants Can Bring Your Garden Indoors
By: SA HOME | - During the cold winter months, you can brighten your home by the outdoors inside. The presence of green plants and botanical arrangements in an indoor winter garden can provide a welcoming and warm environment.
Watching Your Garden Grow-Fast
One of the most popular and intriguing blooming plants for indoors is the amaryllis. Although you can buy baskets of blooming amaryllis, the real fun comes from buying amaryllis bulbs and watching them grow. Common varieties of amar ...
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- How To Spend Less While Keeping Your Lawn Beautiful
By: SA HOME | - Most lawn-conscious folks have developed a routine they follow to keep their lawns lush and green throughout the growing season. These routines are great--but they're not always necessary. If you want to keep your lawn green, but the economy has left you reluctant to spend as much on your lawn as you have in years past, it's time to break the routine. In times of plenty, it's fine to baby your lawn. When times are tight, give it what it needs, and no more.
Whether to Weed
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- Keeping Container Gardens And House Plants Healthy
By: SA HOME | - Houseplants, much like your lawn and garden, have specific requirements for water. Caring for houseplants can be a delicate balance as plants can perish due to insufficient or excessive watering.
There are a variety of things you can do to provide the proper amount of water to your plants. One of the most effective ways is to use a watering meter.
Watering Meters
Pettinelli, manager of the University of Connecticut Soil Nutrient Analysis Laboratory, notes t ...
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- Proper Maintenance Of Bermuda Grass
By: David Urmann | - Cynadon or commonly called Bermuda grass originated in Africa. It is capable in surviving even in dry conditions and can easily spread. It can also withstand daily heavy traffic. This type of grass can also grow in almost all types of soil. When fertilized and maintained properly it is an ideal choice in making the best turf.
Bermuda grass can be planted with its sprigs or seeds. Because of its qualities, many home owners especially in the United States and many other countries ma ...
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- How To Choose From The Types Of Synthetic Grass
By: Mike Freemen | - The growth of the synthetic grass industry can be correlated to increased awareness of its many functions. From professional soccer fields, to simple backyard landscaping in residential neighborhoods, artificial grass has replaced many real grass lawns across the globe. To supply its different uses, a variety of synthetic grass types now exist within the market.
Artificial grass was originally used for sports fields. Technological breakthroughs in turf production have bettered th ...
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- 5 Tips For A Perfect Lawn
By: Joe Swantack | - The average homeowner spends nearly 4 hours per week on yard work and mows their lawn 30 times a year. Thats a good chunk of time, but believe it or not, your lawn pays you back for all this work. It serves as a gigantic air conditioner to help cool your home. It releases a tremendous amount of oxygen and captures tons of dirt and dust to keep you and your family healthier. It even gives you a nice place to play croquet. And the healthier your lawn is, the better it can keep up its end o ...
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- Things Not To Do In Lawn Care
By: Max Info | - You are having the beautiful lawn and you wish it to last for the long time. You maintain the lawn for this and happy of having such a nice lawn. What if I say you that you may be doing something wrong? Arent you making the mistakes that are common in lawn care and are done by many gardeners? Check out the common mistakes that are done by the gardeners while lawn care and see if you are not doing them. This article will help you doing this. It will explore some common mistakes of lawn ca ...
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- Steps For Easy Lawn Care Help For You
By: Max Info | - When you have a lawn that you are responsible to take care of, you have to take care of so many things in the lawn care such as feeding water, mowing the lawn, etc. You can get help from professionals but it may be costly for you as they take fees for the help. You can use internet to get information about the lawn. There are lots of materials containing good help for the lawn care. In the area of lawn care help, there are many online places and books that you can find lots of help for handling ...
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- How To Do Lawn Care Tips For You
By: Max Info | - Having a beautiful lawn in front of the door is dream of everyone. Many people have garden in their house and feel proud of it. But it is very hard to maintain such a beautiful lawn. Hard maintenance is required to make the lawn beautiful and healthy. It may be easier to take care of the lawn if you follow some easy steps and take care of some special things. You will get some interesting and informative tips of green grass care in this article. Some tips are represented in this article which wi ...
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- How To Choose Lawn Care Professional
By: Max Info | - Any one would love to have a beautiful green lawn in front of their house. The house with beautiful green lawn attracts more than the one without it. Green lawn is helpful for you not only in the beauty, also for the health and cool environment. There are lots of advantages of keeping lawn in front of the house. Green lawn needs good care and maintenance for them to stay beautiful and healthy in any environment. It is easy to take care of the lawn and providing it regular maintenance. Even one p ...
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- Taking Care Of Lawns
By: arcel | - Mexico is known to be one of the most polluted cities in the world. There had been several calls for more people to plant more lawns. In fact, there had been several moves by the city Government to encourage more Mexicans to fight global warming and to help combat pollution. Specific moves had been made by the Government, and this includes building more lawns. In fact, it is even encouraged that more Mexicans build lawns on their roof tops.
Encouragements such as planting more tr ...
Tags: Lawns, Lawn Service, Lawn Aerator, Lawn Fertilizer, Lawn Seed
- Preventing Water From Damaging Your Lawn And Garden
By: Aydan Corkern | - When you have a home, how well you keep up with the gardening and maintenance can make your home beautiful or downright ugly. Unkempt lawns are unattractive and will make any property look unattractive as well, no matter how luxurious and extravagant the home itself is. Keeping your lawn green and healthy is pleasing to the eyes and is welcoming.
All lawns need water, and some people carry the notion that watering their lawn everyday is better than every few days. That is not tru ...
Tags: lawns, sprinkler system, mildew, mold growth, fertilizing, weed growth, water
- Great Lawns
By: Ronn Roberts | - This is a topic near and dear to my heart. Ask my wife and she will tell you I was obsessive over my lawn for the last two years I cant disagree.
It all started with a new house. Typically a good thing right? Our first new house on a new cul-de-sac with 5 other new houses. We got the pick the colors and flooring and had some input in other things.
CONSTRUCTION TRAUMA
I came out to my front porch every morning and coached the little gr ...
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- Doing Flood Damage Cleanup Of Yards And Lawns
By: Beth Olignerf | - Maintaining the beauty of your yard is just as important as maintaining the beauty of your home. But like the interior of your home, flood can damage your lawn and your yard. Flood carries dust and silt, and after it recedes, you will find all those dirt covering your well-manicured lawn. Heavy wind can also shake twigs and leaves from trees and plants and carry them to your yard.
Your pool will also start to look like one big tank of dirty water. Your kid's outdoor playground are ...
Tags: doing, flood, damage, cleanup, of, yards, and, lawns
- Lawn Maintenance In St. Petersburg, Florida
By: Steven charlie Habib | - Things are tough right now with the drought that we are enduring in the Deep South. Certain areas in and around St.Petersburg are being subjected to water rationing you can only water your lawn once a week so you have to figure out a way to keep your lawn from drying out. And that is only one aspect of lawn maintenance.
Most people wait until their lawn has gotten overgrown to mow it. Or they schedule their lawn mowing around the weather and do their mowing when it is not too c ...
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- 5 Quick Tips For A Better Lawn
By: Tim A. Smith | - Don't get me wrong, maintaining a high quality lawn does take some effort, but with a few simple tips on mowing you can have a lawn that will make your neighbors envious.
First, never mow your lawn when it's wet. A wet lawn can allow grass clippings to clump together more easily. This clump of grass can smother the grass beneath it leaving a dead spot or create a spot where weeds can take root. Wait for a day or two after a rain storm and avoid mowing right after you've watered t ...
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- Successful Marketing Tips For Your Lawn Care Services Business
By: Andrew Caxton | - There are various ways of marketing lawn care services. Sales or leads for lawn care services can be generated through telemarketing or through direct mails. Generally, marketing strategies are employed in fall and spring as there is a great demand for lawn care services during this time. Attempts are also made by various lawn care agencies to minimize cost by printing color postcards or self-mailer brochures.
Ideally, lawn care marketing strategy has maximum impact when individua ...
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- Lawn Care And Treating Grubs
By: Andrew Caxton | - One of commonest infestation on gardens and lawns are grubs. Such animals are the food of birds and other little animals. If you see an increasing level of animals activity on your lawn or garden, you are facing a grub infestation.
Learn how to combat them
Basics about grubs
Remove the turf and search for grubs. Maybe the cause of animal activity is other than grubs. You have to be sure of infestation before you begin to treat it. Fall and spring are ...
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- Installing Synthetic Grass Onto Permanent And Temporary Base
By: "Brayan Peter" | - Firstly see how much grass you would need. See that the base is smooth, clean and ready to fix the synthetic grass. A self leveling compound is actually available at any DIY stores that will help you remove any imperfections on the surface which might show through to the top surface particularly on thinner pile height products. Lay down the artificial turf on a clean, dust free and leveled area that needs to be covered. Approximately give about 50 mm of synthetic grass to spruce off to make that ...
Tags: Synthetic Turf Grass, Synthetic Lawns, Artificial Lawns, Artifical Turf, Synthetic Sod, Lawn Maintenance, Eco Turf
- The Importance Of Grading Areas In Your Garden
By: Kenneth Scott | - Not all houses have perfect surroundings that will be easy to transform into outdoor recreation and entertainment areas with good lawns and gardens. It is frequently necessary to undertake some construction projects to obtain the quality and type of outdoor area you want. One of the basic construction problems for any landscaping task is grading the soil. Generally, grading means building a slope into the garden area. Sloping ensures that there is proper drainage, and it can make the house look ...
Tags: easy maintenance, Gardening, grading areas, landscaping, lawns
- Selecting Lawn And Tree Care Services Companies
By: Kent Higgins.. | - If you decide not to fully take care of your lawn yourself, you will need to find a professionals at a lawn and tree care service to do it for you. There are plenty of services available, so you can find the one that is right for you based on price, reputation ,etc.
Your Options
The Service Solution is one of the best lawn and tree care companies currently operating. They provide customized service to each of their customers, and even provide business management s ...
Tags: lawn care services, yards care, mowing, tree service, lawns, landscaping, landscape, gardening, home improvement, landscaping, lawn care, pest, bugs, insects
- Tips On How To Select The Right Deck Railing
By: Adam Peters. | - It is very important the design and material requirements for your deck railings. Wrong choices could lead to loss of investment and most importantly lead to dissatisfactory results.
It is a fact that we make our houses with a lot of love and care and a lot of planning goes in to making it. So its importance to understand that selecting a deck railing and material to be used is as important as making the house itself.
Modern Railing Designs Selecting the right one ...
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- Importance Of Selecting The Right Material For Your Deck Railing
By: Adam Peters. | - It is very important the design and material requirements for your deck railings. Wrong choices could lead to loss of investment and most importantly lead to dissatisfactory results.
It is a fact that we make our houses with a lot of love and care and a lot of planning goes in to making it. So its importance to understand that selecting a deck railing and material to be used is as important as making the house itself.
Modern Railing Designs Selecting the right one ...
Tags: railings, material, verdant lawns, home-improvement, home repair, Equipment, Interior-Design
- Backyard Landscaping Themes That Make A Difference
By: Andrew Caxton | - This article tells how to spruce up that backyard with minimal changes and efforts
Have you ever thought of upgrading your backyard or in other terms, about beautifying it? About tractors and gardening http://www.lawn-mowers-and-garden-tractors.com/lawn-tractors.html">tractors and gardening.Most of us do not actually think about this untill we see this happening across the neighborhood. However, once we start thinking on these lines, then we also want it to be better than other ba ...
Tags: tractors, grass, lawns, winter power tools, gardening, landscaping, garden, house
- Is Your Lawn A Lawn Junkie?
By: James Harris | - Lush, green weed free lawns - they are the dream of every homeowner in America, but the price we pay for those luscious grass carpets may be more than the dollars spent on fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides not to mention the hours spent on mowing and trimming. The price may be your health and the health of our children and pets.
A study by Dr. John Peters of the University of Southern California (July 1987 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute) sh ...
Tags: lawns, lawn fertilizer, organic fertilizer, natural lawns, probiotics, turf, thatch, mother nature, landscaping
- Synthetic Grass: An Increasingly Popular Alternative For The Yard
By: Daniel DeGiorgio | - As Australia's severe drought has turned many green, lush gardens and yards into brown, lifeless dustbowls, an increasing number of Australian homeowners are turning to synthetic turf as a viable solution. Similarly, more home builders, landscapers, and sports and commercial facilities are actively investigating and promoting synthetic surfaces, causing a dramatic surge in synthetic turf demand here in Australia.
There are many benefits to installing synthetic grass versus natural ...
Tags: landscaping services, paving, decking, retaining walls, designer lawns, synthetic & artificial grass, gardens and landscape design
- Garden Tractors Every Gardener's Best Friend
By: A.Caxton | - If you are struggling to keep up with your garden and you are increasingly becoming frustrated, you may wish to think about purchasing a garden tractor. Garden tractors really are handy and they can really help with tough lawns and many other jobs within the garden. So, if you haven't yet thought about trying one you may be interested to read the rest of this article.
The Selection of Garden Tractors Available
There is quite a large selection of garden tractors avai ...
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- Know What Type Of Grass To Use In Your Grass Landscaping
By: A.Caxton | - When thinking of improving your landscape, you may think of having the perfect, grassy lawn. However, with various different types of grass available, it is often essential to do the right amount of research in order to achieve that perfect lawn you have set your sights upon. Not all lawns have to be high maintenance and the research that you do will show you that.
Knowing What You Want
When you think of grass you generally think of the color green. However, there i ...
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- The Basics Of Lawn Care
By: A.Caxton | - One of the most important outside chores is lawn care. It is almost considered an American pastime during the summertime. A trim, neat, and attractive lawn can give you a great sense of pride and ownership in your home. It is also less expensive to do the work yourself and you may find that it gives you a great deal of pride and satisfaction in realizing that even you can make your lawn beautiful. It is important that you keep several things in mind, however, to ensure that you stay safe and ...
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- Lawn Alternatives And Natural Gardens
By: R Birch | - From coast to coast the lawn is one the most ubiquitous garden features in the landscape. Though all gardens require some maintenance, lawns require far more than most. Between fertilizing, weekly mowing and other requirements such as aerating and thatching, lawns are among the most labor intensive and chemically drenched types of landscape. While some lawn space may be managed with little trouble, large vast, weed-free lawns should be rethought. Consider the alternative, introducing native plan ...
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- Taking Care Of Your Lawn
By: A.Caxton | - As the summer months begin to come closer, people will be thinking about taking care of their lawns. When you are making your game plan for caring for your lawn, you need to also work in some tips on how to make your lawn greener and healthier than it has ever been. Isn't there a yard that you drive by that you admire? Your lawn can look just like that if you take the time and effort to determine what your grass needs to make it thicker and greener. Nutrients, proper maintenance, and many ot ...
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- Lawn And Landscape Watering Tips
By: Chester Smith | - When it comes to keeping your lawn and landscaping in peak condition, the odds are that you find yourself using a lot of water. Watering your yard can be an expensive proposition both in terms of the environment and your wallet, and most people do not realize that they could save a lot of time, hassle, and water by following some basic watering tips.
In terms of watering equipment, there are a variety of methods to employ when it comes to your yard. If you have the money, you migh ...
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- Landscaping On A Budget
By: Rex Ryan | - It is possible to have an appealing, unique look to your yard without investing thousands of dollars every year in order to do so. Practicing some basic conservation rules can help you to save money and still make your yard look great.
One great new innovation that is all the rage is the art of xeriscaping. As water becomes ever more valuable a commodity, many homeowners are seeking to conserve their water costs by choosing plants that do not need very much water in order to survi ...
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- All Lawns Are Not The Same: Choosing Your Grass Wisely
By: seoprofessional | - All yards are not the same: Choosing your grass wisely
First of all, you should determine what your ideal yard will look like, as grasses can vary in color, leaf width, characteristic and growth density. Each little blade adds up! Second, you must consider how much time and money you really are ready to spend on your lawn. The higher the maintenance lawn, the more you will need to put into it. This is a very important factor. Third, your specific growing conditions will affe ...
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