Fall is usually the busiest season when it comes to lawn care.
It's the best season for all the care and maintenance a lawn could have.
But taking care of a lawn is not limited to fall only.
Spring is also a time for you to take a good look at your lawn and take necessary steps to promote its growth and health.
Here are some tips to take better care of your lawn at spring time.
Tip 1: Raking There is more to the act of raking than just clearing off the leaves from or lawns.
Raking your lawn also helps in controlling the growth of thatch on your lawn.
It helps in clearing away the layer of thatch building on the lawn, if not all of it then at least most of it.
Raking also helps in lessening the matted and tangled grass blades.
Even if you already did some raking in the fall, it is still important to rake your lawn in the spring.
Tip 2: Check For Soil Compaction Soil compaction happens when there's a lot of heavy traffic happening on your lawn.
The almost constant weight compresses the soil and strangles the pores.
Compaction also occurs when there is not much water and nutrients in the soil.
The result would be a stump to the grass root growth.
The solution for this is lawn aeration.
However, aeration is better done in the fall.
In the spring time, just check if your lawn is experiencing soil compaction.
If it is, then wait for fall to come before you do aeration.
Tip 3: Liming the Lawn You should also check the soil of your lawn for its pH level.
Do this especially when you see moss appearing on your lawn.
Moss can signal either compaction or soil acidity.
Check your soil for acidity by sending it to your local county extension for testing.
If the test reveals that your soil is indeed acidic, then it's time to liming, which is the process of applying calcium and magnesium-rich materials to the soil to neutralize the acidity.
Tip 4: Herbicides and Weed Removal Herbicide is also called a weed killer.
You apply this to the soil before the weed seedlings can emerge and spread all over your lawn.
This means that it should be done in the spring time as this is usually the time when the seedlings start to emerge.
Be careful to determine what kind of weeds is growing on your lawn before applying herbicides because the kind of herbicide you will use will depend on the kind of weed growing on your lawn.
Tip 5: Tuning Up Your Lawn Mower It is recommended that you have your lawn mower tuned up every year.
It's easy to tune up a lawn mower so this should not be so much of a problem.
If you do not know how to tune up a mower, then take the time to learn how.
It's done in only three steps: change the oil, change the spark plug, then change or clean the air filter.
Tip 6: Practicing Lawn Mowing Strategies Spring is a good time to practice on your lawn mowing skills.
The season is not too hot for you to spend an hour or so under the sun pushing around the mower.
Now don't think that mowing your lawn is done by just pushing the mower around.
There is more to how mowing is done, and practicing will be worth it.
Tip 7: What Not To Do In Spring Be careful not to do these three tasks in spring time: core aeration, overseeding, and fertilizing.
All these three are recommended to be done in the fall.
There are times when they can be done during spring but that's only when you are not applying herbicides.
Aeration and overseeding will be useless when you're using herbicides.
Herbicides act as a shield against seed germination and this includes grass seeds, so overseeding cannot be done.
As for aeration, it punctures the herbicide shield.
Herbicide should never be applied when yo have plans to overseed or do aeration in the same season.
As for fertilizing, it is nothing damaging.
It is only best done in the fall, when core aeration is also recommended to be done.
Fertilization is more effective this way as the aeration process works in absorbing the nutrients.
If you really want to analyze this, you'll see that there's really not much to do in the spring.
There's only a bunch or preparatory tasks that you have to do for Boise lawn care in the fall.