Lawn care
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Lawn Care
What is Lawn Maintenance?
Lawn Maintenance is the process of maintaining what you have done in the beginning of spring. You want to maintain your property lawn and landscape beds with proper watering and height trimming.
What do you mean by trimming and how much water isn't nature enough?
When it comes to your lawn and watering. the lawn must have at least 1-1-1/4in water per week. Which is about 1/3in of water 3x a week. We accomplish this by a sprinkler system. A sprinkler system you can put on a timing and will automatically water it on a set schedule. We always recommend the following for setting up for schedule.
Water lawn schedule:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday starts 5am for 30 minutes per zone.
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Start 10am for 10 minutes per zone.
The reason we water on this schedule is it provides the grass with the recommended amount plus on the less watering days gives the soil just enough moisture to help the ground from not heating up and stressing the grass out in the hotter months. this is why some lawns in the hotter months you see brown spots. This is a way for the grass to protect itself. It is recommended on days it rains to not water the grass. this is where a sprinkler rain meter comes in handy to measure rain fall. We recommend setting it at 1/4 of an inch.
If you have shady areas of your lawn, we recommend only water those areas with up to 75% less than the schedule we provided above.
Why do i need to cut my lawn at a certain height and leave clippings behind?
When it comes to your lawn depending on the type of grass you have requires a minimum height to be maintained. Here in the Northeast, you want to have a cool season grass. some cool season grasses are Kentucky bluegrass, fine Fescue, Tall fescue, and Perennial ryegrass. Each one of these grasses has a height recommendation.
Height recommandation:
- Kentucky bluegrass: 2-1/2 - 3-1/2in
- Fine fescue: 2-1/2 - 3in
- Tall fescue: 2-3/4 - 3-3/4
We recommend cutting your grass at higher heights due to the type of soil which is around the ocean county area. The reason for this is the taller blades of the grass help put shade on the soil to help from overheating the soil and damaging the roots. Proper watering will provide the same.
When you cut your grass at a non-recommended height it puts stain on the grass. in the summertime this will actually stave the grass heating the soil up too much and kills the grass staving it of being able to take in carbon dioxide. The Grass blades pull in carbon dioxide through its leaves. the taller the blades the more carbon dioxide it can pull in and release oxygen. when it breaths more carbon dioxide it helps the root system of the grass grow and thrive.
When we cut at the recommended height, we only want to take off no more than 1/3-1/2 of a inch at a time and leave it to break down into the soil. The clippings provide nutrients to the grass. Remember in the spring we fertilized your grass? that fertilizer then broke down and the roots of the grass absorb it. when you leave the clipping, you're actually fertilizing the lawn. If you remove more than 1/2 of grass clipping and they are thick it is recommended to then remove them during that cut. the reason for this is it does not allow the grass to be able to break down as it should. If left on the grass will cause suffocation to the grass below it as well as providing extra heat to build up. if left can kill the grass underneath it as well as cause disease.
What kind of disease can my lawn have?
In the world of Lawn Maintenace there is also the need for balance. If you do not have the correct balance things could start going wrong. Fungal disease plays a big role in this. Here in the Northeastern area, we get a lot of humanity in the summer which causes a lot of problems in your soil. If it is overly watered and humid it leaves no time to dry out this than causes fungus to grow. Some examples of this are:
Brown patch: if you noticed in your lawn area starting to yellow. They should be roughly circular with brown ring around them; however, they can also have an irregular edge because this type of fungus doesn't always kill all plants in one area completely but rather spreads slowly over time through smaller doses which cause rings like structure where there was once healthy grass. Other than looking ugly as sin most people won’t even notice these changes unless their yards suffer from heavy infestations involving many different types or colors such as purple or burgundy.
Dollar Spot: Dollar spot is a disease that can affect warm- and cool-season grass. It occurs from late spring to late fall. When you first notice small, round patches of straw-colored grass about the size and shape as a silver dollar appear on your otherwise beautiful green lawn. Dollar spot has been known for wreaking havoc in golf courses. But these days it can also affect residential turf grasses like sod or revolution cuttings when left unchecked by mowers.
Pythium Lawn Disease: Pythium Blight is a terrible grass-killing disease that only gets worse in hot and humid weather. It likes to hang out near people, so it’s no surprise this thing has caused such an epidemic of dead patches all over the place! Pythium causes death by browning leaves while they wilt from high relative humidity levels or when daytime temperatures remain above 85° F (29 Celsius) with nighttime lows below 68 °F(20 Celsius). These conditions make turf more susceptible than ever before - if you notice your lawn's color fading rapidly then there might be risk for pythie infestation nearby.
Red Thread Lawn Disease: When you first notice a red-pink patch of grass in your lawn, it may seem as if your eyes are playing tricks on you. But when taking another look at this unusual phenomenon closer up and more carefully than before - there’s no mistaking what causes these beautiful colors: They are caused by disease! The cause could be named “red thread," which has distinctive looking cotton candy like strands wrapped around its blade tips or protruding from them However, despite how interesting appearance might be supposed to make identification easy—it isn't always so simple because many different diseases have similar symptoms.
Rust Lawn Disease: There are a few different types of rust that can attack your lawn. One type, called “rust diseases” affect the plant's nutrients and water supply which causes it to become undernourished or stressed causing an orange-yellow color on its blades as well as making them brittle enough for breaking easily with little force applied against them--this usually happens during periods where temperatures stay above 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 Celsius). Other forms lie dormant until autumn when conditions become wetter than normal.
Snow Mold disease: have you looked at your lawn and thought it snowed from a distance but when looking closer you might think it was caused by spiders? well, Snow mold is a lawn disease caused by two principle fungal culprits: gray snow mold (Typhula spp; also known as Typhula blight), and pink snow mold (Microdochium nivalis, also known as Fusarium patch).As the names suggest, gray snow mold shows a white-to-grayish webbing to the infected areas, while pink snow mold is grayish to pink.
How do you take care of Lawn diseases:
the best way to prevent and or cure any underlining problems is to make sure your soil nutrient levels are correct as well as watering. it is also best depending on the season is to apply a fungicide to help prevent further infection.
What is the Recommended grass seed in my area:
In the area of Ocean County, we recommend the best grass that does very well with drought and disease which is Tall fescue.
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