The Little Book of Life Skills by Erin Zammett Ruddy

Author:Erin Zammett Ruddy [ZAMMETT RUDDY, ERIN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE EXPERT:

Allyn Hane is a lawn-care expert and “the Lawn Care Nut” on YouTube. His weekly show teaches DIYers how to dominate their street with the greenest, thickest, most beautiful lawn on the block. For fifteen years, he worked for TruGreen, the world’s largest lawn service.

THE EXPLANATION:

The most important thing you can do for your lawn is to mow it correctly. If you don’t get that right, your lawn will always be a struggle. Think of grass blades like satellite dishes soaking up signals from the sun. You want to keep them under control (not too tall) but don’t cut them completely off—hence the ⅓ rule, which still leaves plenty of green for photosynthesis. The thinking on fertilizer used to be blast it once in the spring and once in the fall with massive amounts of synthetic fertilizer. Turns out it’s better to “spoon-feed” small amounts of organic fertilizer more often. (There will be times when the lawn is thin or unhealthy and needs extra help, and it’s OK to go on a bulking cycle then.) There are two ways to attack weeds: (1) Prevent them from ever appearing; crabgrass starts coming up when spring soil temperatures reach fifty-five degrees, so get it on your lawn before then to create a barrier in the soil. (2) Buy premixed weed control and spot spray dandelions or clover, or whatever pops up as the weather gets warmer.

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