I assume you own a lawn or you wouldn’t be reading this article and by reffering to this article you must be thinking how you could best care for your lawn! For most of us, grass fulfils a basic function of producing a green covering over large parts of our gardens. Should the lawn escape into the flower bed then it becomes a weed fit for extinction as fast 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 us may go a little further and occasionally feed and weed the lawn while the most keen will actually practice the comprehensive 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 produce.

Because you are looking for Grass Care advice I can assume you are one of the more proud 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 normal lawn owned by most of us, through to the bowling green / putting green results achieved by the professionals. Let us assume that you are wanting to enhance the appearance of lawn that the vast majority of us own.

We start our Grass Care routine in the springtime when the lawn shows its first sign of coming back to life after the winter. The lawn 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 necessary part of your Lawn Maintenance regime. The aim of this job is to try to extract the ‘thatch’ at the bottom of the plant. Yes, grass is a plant and like all other plants rubbish accumulates at its base, only with grass it becomes locked in excluding air and water getting easy access to the roots.

By scratching away this dead matter you are removing this layer and creating space and improving the environment in which the lawn can grow. The more stronger 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 poor state when 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 routine and spring feeding. This task is well worth the time.