Keeping your lawn green is all about giving it the three basic ingredients; sunlight, water, and nutrients. If your yard is fertile enough, you can get away with regularly irrigating and never have to worry about adding nutrients or confirming whether your soil pH is right. If your soil pH is off the ideal range
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Grass loves water. However, the very rain parts of the year can make lawn maintenance a problem. The extra moisture will make your lawn grow faster and it will be equally hard to trim especially if it rains for hours on a daily basis. Those few patches of sunlight can be quite enticing if you
Lawnmowers tend to have trouble starting up especially after long storage in damp cold conditions. Most people will keep on tugging hoping things will work out. If you keep tugging with no positive results, you will probably start feeling that familiar gasoline smell. This means that your engine is flooded. Pro Tip: Gasoline goes bad
If you let your push or ride-on mower stay parked for too long, chances are the battery will run out and it won’t crank at all until you recharge the battery. Better still, you can jumpstart it using your car – if you don’t have an electric battery charger. Is It Safe to Jumpstart a
Clay soil is a great problem for any lawn. The soil is dense, has little organic matter and is the pH is almost always terrible for your lawn. Due to its denseness, it easily gets waterlogged making it harder for roots to absorb nutrients and air. Improving your lawn’s drainage will not only get rid
Clay soil consists of tiny mineral rocks with little to no organic material. The lack of organic materials in the soil composition makes it hard for plants like grass on your lawn to thrive. Couple this with the fact that clay is highly alkaline and you get one of the worst soils to grow turf
Should I sharpen new lawnmower blades? This is a common question brand new lawn mower owners have before heading out to cut their first patch of grass. Well. The answer is simple; No, you don’t have to. Most lawnmower blades come sharpened. You don’t have to sharpen it further but you can if you want.
Any lawnmower powered by an internal combustion engine needs oils to keep running smoothly. They are really not any different from your car that demands an oil change after a given number of miles. Choosing the Right Oil for Your Mower So what type of oil should you use for a lawnmower? Well. The answer
Parsnip is a cool-season biennial root vegetable. However, it is usually grown as a winter annual crop. Parsnips have a hard time growing in summer or arid conditions. They are considered heavy feeders hence require sufficient soil nutrients especially if you are planting them in pots. Parsnips become actually sweeter when they are exposed to
A dry lawn is a cause for alarm for any homeowner. It betrays neglect and lack of attention to your greens. This may not be the case if your irrigation system is either faulty or rain fed. Harsh weather conditions are the usual culprits. That lack of water is the usual culprit is a no