Garden Maintenance

Garden maintenance can be a chore for some, and a leisure activety to others. Here are some tips to help you with your garden, or landscaping.

Lawn Care Tips, And Advice

Water your new lawn immediately after installation using a hose and sprinkler. Pay particular attention to the edges and corners.

Be aware that windy days dry out turf just as fast as hot days.

It is best not to walk on the turf while your lawn is establishing. When moving your sprinkler use planks of wood to spread your weight across the area. Turf Renovations, and ongoing maintenance programs can be implemented when looking to take your lawns to the next level, or to revive a well-used lawn. Turf maintenance of this type is vital to the long term care of your lawns, and garden.

Laying a new lawn with turfs delivers instant results and you can have a lush looking lawn straight away after the installation. This garden project can be completed anytime of the year as long as there is water readily supplied.

During the first three weeks, avoid heavy or concentrated use of your lawn. This will give the turf and roots an opportunity to firmly knit with the soil, and ensures that your turf will remain smooth.

Mow your new turf approximately ten days from laying during the Spring and Summer seasons, or after three weeks during Autumn / Winter depending on grass growth.

Adjust your mower to its highest setting - it is vital that the new turf is not cut too short or scalped during the early mowing, or left to get too long.

Take care to avoid scalping, keep mower blades sharp and never use a strimmer to cut your lawn.

Strimmer Tips

Use a nylon-line strimmer to tidy round trees growing out of grass. But have a plastic pipe handy, cut in half length ways, to lean against the tree to protect the bark from being scarred.

Hedge Tip

Before planting, lay a length of black plastic sheeting on the ground and anchor it with pegs or bricks. Cut crosswise slits in the plastic and insert the plants through the holes. Camouflage the plastic with crushed bark and dead leaves. The sheet will keep the weeds down, protect the roots from frost in the winter and reduce evaporation during summer.

Finally, if garden maintenance becomes too much work, remember there are professional landscaping services available to keep your garden beautiful. Finlay garden maintenance services, in Glasgow, are experts at commercial lawn maintenance, or Fence Construction