ad about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up yoYou don’t have to be a super talented yardsman to have a vigorous looking lawn in the spring. It comes on strong and green naturally as the weather warms, doesn’t it? The real trick is to keep that look throughout the heat of the summer. Do that and you’ve accomplished something.

Also if you want to take a low maintenance approach to yard work, there are things you can do at times other of the year. You know during the lulls in yard work as opposed to working non-stop when the grass is bursting forth in April and your neighbors are knee deep in some misguided spring lawn care regimen.

For example most spring lawn care routines call for regular feedings. But did you know you don’t necessarily have to feed your lawn in the spring? In fact you can get just a lush a lawn by feeding with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer each fall. An added bonus benefit is this approach also reduces the need to water should an extended dry period strike early.

Then here’s a spring lawn care trick you don’t want to skip. Go ahead and spread about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up you

mplished something.

Also if you want to take a low maintenance approach to yard work, there are things you can do at times other of the year. You know during the lulls in yard work as opposed to working non-stop when the grass is bursting forth in April and your neighbors are knee deep in some misguided spring lawn care regimen.

For example most spring lawn care routines call for regular feedings. But did you know you don’t necessarily have to feed your lawn in the spring? In fact you can get just a lush a lawn by feeding with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer each fall. An added bonus benefit is this approach also reduces the need to water should an extended dry period strike early.

Then here’s a spring lawn care trick you don’t want to skip. Go ahead and spread about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up yo

your neighbors are knee deep in some misguided spring lawn care regimen.

For example most spring lawn care routines call for regular feedings. But did you know you don’t necessarily have to feed your lawn in the spring? In fact you can get just a lush a lawn by feeding with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer each fall. An added bonus benefit is this approach also reduces the need to water should an extended dry period strike early.

Then here’s a spring lawn care trick you don’t want to skip. Go ahead and spread about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up yo

n by feeding with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer each fall. An added bonus benefit is this approach also reduces the need to water should an extended dry period strike early.

Then here’s a spring lawn care trick you don’t want to skip. Go ahead and spread about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up yo

ad about an inch of peat, fresh topsoil, or better still, well aged compost on your lawn. (Just take care to spread it evenly. If need be hauling out your trusty rake to level it out.) When you’re done you’ll hardly notice it and it's a great way to build up your soil for a healthier lawn.

Reseeding is another task best done in fall. Reason being the soil is still warm enough to encourage germination. But you do want to tend to any bare spots that show up in spring.

Now I know it feels good to get that first cut in. But in some ways it’s the unkindest cut of all. Think about it. The soil is drenched with moisture and all from winter snows or rains. And here you come along with your number 12s, or those garden tractor tires, making soil compaction worse with every step or turn of the wheel. The spring lawn care rule books says the proper thing to do is hold off until after the soil has dried out some.

Yet spring is a good time for aerating the soil. (Core aeration is the best.) Doing so helps break up accumulated soil compaction that comes from people walking on it last season. Plus makes it easier for that fertilizer to work it’s way into the ground.

And don’t forget to do what is needed to head off any crab grass or other weedy developments.

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