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Getting rid of weeds can be a tricky business. In many cases, homeowners are known to damage their lawn in the process or use methods that are not effective enough. To avoid all that, consider the following methods:   One of the main tips that gardeners will recommend for dealing with weeds is to water your plants while avoiding watering your weeds. That way, your plants and lawn will get more nourishment, while the weeds will wither and die more easily. Another good approach is to kill weeds at their roots, but leave the soil, along with any dormant weed seeds, largely untouched. Buy a safe herbicide that targets only your weeds. For that purpose, you’ll have to do some research and find out exactly what type of weed plant grows in your yard, and what formula you need to get in order to deal with it.  After a few weeks apply an organic lawn care fertilizer to nurture your lawn . A mixture of vinegar and salt will get rid of weeds naturally, without the need to apply com...

Crab grass is an opportunistic type of plant that a lot of homeowners tend to struggle with. The main issue with crab grass is that it is persistent, and it tends to take away precious nutrients from your healthy lawn, leading to your lawn succumbing more easily to disease. Getting rid of crab grass is, therefore, a very important task that you need to keep track of.   The best approach in killing crab grass and avoiding any adverse effects that could damage your lawn as well, is to use natural herbicide targeting only the crab grass itself. Timing is critical, since crab grass has a very dynamic growth cycle, and if left unchecked, each plant can release up to 150,000 seeds, which would eliminating the problem entirely a very difficult job.   The most critical thing to remember is to apply your herbicide right when the soil temperature reaches about 60 degrees. For newly seeded lawns, however, it’s important to allow your lawn to become a little bit more robust before act...

Whether or not you should treat your soil to alter its composition and pH is a question that can’t usually be answered right away. The following methods, however, can shed some light on the matter and help you decide on what to do to enhance your soil in the long run:   Test to see if you can actually grow anything you want on your soil. In some cases for good growth you will need soil treatment products to enrich the soil.  Although this method is somewhat more time consuming, it will give you clear results, and you’ll be able to draw a conclusion based on the types of plants that grow and those that don’t grow there. Use a pH test to see whether your soil’s pH is adequate for the type of plant you want to grow. Keep in mind that some plants thrive in a pH that’s slightly off balance, so the value you get doesn’t have to be perfect for certain plants to be able to grow there. Check to see the symptoms of existing plants and lawn patches in the area. If you examine your...

Mowing the lawn is typically a standard activity for most homeowners. If you don’t want to waste money hiring someone to do it for you, then you’ll essentially have to complete that task yourself. However, while a good lawn mower will help you get the job done in no time, knowing when to mow your lawn is a whole other story, and it might require some preparation and foreknowledge.   The fact of the matter is that many homeowners ask the wrong question. It’s not so much a matter of when to mow your lawn or how to determine the exact frequency of when to get the lawn mower ready every time it’s needed. It’s more an issue of how long your grass is.   Experts consider it a matter of length based on how long your grass is and how healthy it grows. In many cases, yellow patches and bare areas will require you to mow your lawn until it’s much shorter than that of your neighbor’s. Then you can address such health issues more easily by altering the pH of your lawn or using the righ...

Missing patches can be a big problem when you’re trying to grow your lawn up to standard and improve your home’s curb appeal. Even if they are small, the high contrast between the color of your soil and the grass will make such patches very easily visible from a long distance away. So, if you have guests over or your neighbors happen to drop by, they’ll quickly be able to see that something isn’t right with your lawn.   The best way to fix missing patches of grass is to start by by re-seeding. Although this approach takes longer and requires more effort, it is largely considered to be the best way. Start by raking the area, loosening the soil a bit, then ammending it and spreading the seeds. Then rake the seeds, begin watering the previously bare patch, and allow the grass to grow a little taller than the rest of your lawn before you start mowing.   Another approach (which is considerably quicker, but not as good) is to cover bare patches with a roll of grass sod. You can...

When buying a new home, or sometimes after re-planting the same lawn for years on end, homeowners might notice that the lawn no longer grows as healthy or as appealing as it did in the past. While treating it with various solutions can help in certain instances, it won’t be a permanent solution, and you might find yourself at a critical crossroads, where you have to figure out a way to salvage your lawn.   The problem is usually in the soil, and it won’t be solved before you can address it at the root – ironically enough. This is where using proper organic liquid fertilizer comes in . The idea is that you will have to switch to a type of natural, slow-release fertilizer that will not only provide all the suitable nutrients for your soil in just the right amounts, but will also aim to release it slowly into the ground. Failing to do so will deprive the soil of valuable nourishment, and most of the nutrients might even be washed away entirely as you water your lawn.   It’s ...

If you think it might be time to replace your lawn, you have to consider your options carefully. Sometimes, your lawn can be recovered, but you need to see whether that’s the case, instead of trying to do it and just failing, since the option wasn’t there in the first place.   Gardening Revive experts typically say that you should only scrap your lawn and replace it as a last resort. In most cases, you have certain options that you can employ instead of that:   If the problem is that your lawn is missing a few patches, you can complement them by just re-seeding those areas or by using sod to get results faster. For brown spots, you can also pull out and re-seed the affected areas, while also treating the soil to adjust the pH that has likely been altered by the presence of pet urine or some other stressor. If your lawn is attacked by weeds or pests, you can use various methods to attract beneficial insects that will attack those weeds or pests and facilitate the better...

Getting your lawn ready for the summer can be a tricky business, especially if you’re just now planning to start growing your grass for the first time. In such cases, timing is everything, as you’ll find that planting your lawn will not come without challenges, and in order for it to grow properly, one of the main prerequisites on how to make grass green is to plant and fertilize it at the right time.   Fertilizing your lawn should be done with the best slow-release organic fertilizer you can find, and it’s a task that should be reserved for the spring. As spring arrives, it’s important to check the temperature of the soil – not the air – as that is the best factor to consider for determining when to fertilize your lawn.   The general rule of thumb is that you have to start fertilizing when the soil temperature reaches 55 degrees Fahrenheit. For that purpose, you can either use a soil thermometer (if you want to be precise), or you can simply observe to see when the lila...