Healthy Lawn

A healthy good looking lawn looks not only looks good, but provides other benefits such as helping to keep your home cooler, captures dust and dirt, gives a place for children and pets to play and releases oxygen back into the environment.

Your lawn will need a combination of regular cutting, watering, fertilisation and aerating to look its best.

SIX TIPS FOR HAVING A HEALTHY LAWN
1. Have your lawn mowed when it needs it and cut before the grass gets too long. Each lawn type has its ideal cutting height and shouldn’t be cut lower than this height. When your lawn is one third higher than its ideal height, a cut is due. Depending on the time of year this may be monthly, fortnightly, weekly, or every few days.

2. Avoid having your lawn cut too short, it’ll make your grass look sparse and weak. Grass is nearly a mirror image above and below ground, so the taller your grass, the deeper the root system. Grass that is cut too short will develop a much shallower root system and allow weeds to grow. Shorter grass requires more water and makes your lawn prone to drought or high temperature damage.

3. Have your lawn cut higher in summer, this will help to shade the soil and prevent weed growth. Taller grass will slow water evaporation from the soil, aid the development of deeper roots and have your lawn become more drought intolerant.

4. Keep longer lawns in shady areas, longer leaves with reduced sunlight will help to maximise photosynthesis (plants use sunlight to make their own food).

5. Most lawns should be fertilised twice per year, firstly in late spring or early summer, with a second application late summer. Some lawn types such as Rhizomatous Tall Fescue require fertilising every 4-6 weeks to look their best.

6. Aerating your lawn once per year will allow your grass to breathe and help water and nutrients penetrate the grass roots.