Your Guide To Lawn Maintenance To Prepare Your Lawn For Summer

As much as the lawn can be lush and admirable during summer, it can still be affected by severe heat, wind, and dry conditions of the season.

To avoid overgrown and dry thatch, you must start caring for the lawn long before summer. Are you having trouble keeping your lawn healthy in the summer in Australia? These top summer lawn care tasks will keep your lawn lush and green all summer.

How to Prepare Your Lawn for Summer

Clean rake And Arate

Before summer in Australia, you should start cleaning the lawn. Start by clearing twigs, leaves, and fallen branches of trees. In addition, rake the lawn to remove the dry blade of grasses and leaves. Raking in spring improves grass aeration because it helps remove thatched grass that can affect new growth. Ensure that you rake the soil when it is dry. Raking soft soil can affect new grass.

Reseed And Overseed

Overseeding is loading the soil with seeds that can cover the lawn once without any bare spots. Test your soil for compaction and texture before overseeding. You can loosen the soil with a rake if the soil is too compacted.

Fertalise And water

Fertilise in the cool fall or early spring to promote grass growth. Fertilisation in Australia discourages the growth of weeds. Furthermore, too much fertiliser can kill the grass; 1 kilo per 100 square metre is perfect. Lastly, water the lawn after fertilising.

Weed

You can either use pre-emergent or post-emergent herbicides or pull the weeds mechanically. Meanwhile, herbicides become necessary when you have a large weed infestation during spring.

Mow

Service your lawn mower in spring and use it at a high height, not too low. Low-height mowing before summer can stress the grass, leach grass nutrients, and expose the soil to harsh sunlight. Mowing the lawn when the grass is tall improves the moisture retention rate.

So, there you have them: the must do lawn maintenance tasks to prepare your lawn for the summer. Feel free to make use of the tips, and you will be glad you did.

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