By maintaining a healthy yard, you’re helping people breathe better! According to the University of Minnesota’s extension office, a healthy lawn area of 25 square feet will provide enough oxygen for one adult person in a day. Additionally, healthy lawns reduce noise pollution, trap carbon emissions, and look stunning! Having a lush lawn has many environmental, social, and personal benefits that can help your commercial property stand out.
Common Issues That Face Yards
The life of a lawn is fraught with danger at every turn. Lawns are sensitive to many elements of outdoor life, including other plants, weather conditions, soil conditions, and wear and tear. Some of the most common issues facing lawns include a lack of aeration, grubs and bugs, rodents, disease, bare spots, pet damage, compacted soil, and thatch or brown patches. Thankfully, all these issues are resolvable through proper maintenance, and it is possible to cultivate a more resilient yard that can withstand these hardships.
Tips For a Healthy Lawn
Most of the tips for growing a healthy lawn are preventative measures for the common issues that face yards. A healthy lawn is a resilient one that can adapt to change, defend itself against pests, and thrive under any condition. Categories for lawn maintenance can be divided into basic care, restorative care, and preventative care. Basic care includes regular watering, trimming, and fertilization. Restorative care may include reseeding, planting, and treating lawns for pests. Prevention is the best medicine, and preventative care helps to avoid big issues in the future by reducing your yard’s susceptibility to pests and other lawn issues.
Basic Care
Regularly maintaining your lawn through morning waterings, trimming to an appropriate length with a sharp blade weekly, and fertilizing are great steps to making your lawn green and lush. Watering your yard in the morning with an appropriate sprinkler system can prevent the drying and yellowing many yards face, especially in the summer. On this note, trimming regularly with a sharp blade ensures the crowns of grass are not damaged, which causes the tops to turn brown and siphon water from the rest of the plant. Another step to maintaining basic care is fertilizing your soil according to the needs of your plants and the local environment. A good fertilizer ratio can be determined through soil testing which can be performed by a lawn care professional.
Restorative Care
If your lawn happens to be in a shape that is a little worse for wear, restorative care may be in order. Oftentimes, restorative care includes reseeding the property with grass suited to the soil and purpose of the property. It may also include aeration and pesticide, herbicide, or fungicide treatments to remove the cause of the issue. After a restorative care treatment is performed, basic care and preventative care can be resumed to ensure the lawn remains healthy throughout its lifetime.
Preventative Care
Preventative care is action taken to remove the threat of pests, climate, and human activity. Some measures taken may include adding pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, or treatment of the area. Additionally, regular aeration can help prevent compaction and browning. Finally, preventing climate-associated issues is often done by planting native grasses and those that thrive in local conditions.
Final Thoughts
If you’re finding yourself green with lawn envy, it may be time to contact a professional Commercial Landscaping service to get your lawn back on track. Having a luscious and verdant lawn is attainable through proper care, so don’t go it alone! If you need professional commercial lawn care, contact Bluegrass Landscape & Snow Management for a consultation!
