I assume you posses a lawn or you wouldn’t be reading this article and by looking at this article you must be wondering how you could better care for your lawn! For many of us, lawn fulfils the basic function of producing a aesthetic covering over large areas of our gardens. Should the lawn extend into the flower bed then it becomes a weed worthy of extinction as quickly as possible!

Basic Grass Care for an existing lawn involves us simply mowing the grass every week through the summer to keep it looking neat, weeds and all! Some of you may go a little further and occasionally feed and weed the grass while the most keen will actually do the complete Grass Care regime and scarify and aerate the grass every year. It all depends on what lawn garden tools you have and what you are trying to achieve.

As you are looking for Grass Care advice I can assume you are one of the more enthusiastic gardeners who would like their grass to look as good as the rest of the garden.

Grass Care consists of just a few basic tasks be it for the utility lawn owned by most of us, through to the bowling green / putting green standard achieved by the professionals. Let us assume that you are wanting to enhance the quality of lawn that the vast majority of us own.

We start our Grass Care routine in the springtime when the grass shows its first sign of coming back to life after the winter. The grass will start to look a little greener and seem to stand up more as it starts to grow.

Now is the time when you take a steel wire pronged Tyne rake and give your grass a good deep raking. Now this is not an easy job but it is an essential part of your Grass Care regime. The objective of this job is to try to remove the ‘thatch’ at the bottom of the plant. Yes, grass is a plant and like all other plants rubbish collects at its base, only with grass it becomes locked in excluding air and water getting easy access to the roots.

By scratching away this waste thatch you are clearing away this barrier and creating room and improving the environment in which the grass can grow. The more vigorous the grass, the less room for weeds to grow.

Whether you’re planning to use liquid lawn fertilizer or Pellets. Organic or non-organic, you need to get this bit right before you begin your feeding regime.

The grass will look in a sorry state after you’ve finished but it will soon recover and the dead thatch can be used to line hanging baskets or added to the compost heap. After a few days the grass will be growing and you can start your mowing regime and spring feeding. This job is well worth the effort.