Easy Lawn Care:

Have a beautiful lawn without a bunch of work!

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Easy Lawn Care

• Three ways for low maintenance lawn care
  • Maintenance
  • Reducing lawn area
  • Improved grass varieties
• Maintenance
  • Cut higher & less often
    • Boost grass and soil health
    • Grows slower
    • Stays green longer
    • Healthier roots
  • Mulch grass instead of bagging
  • Edge & trim less often
  • Reduce irrigation schedule
  • Stop using synthetic chemicals
    • Creates healthier plants and soil
    • Use organic amendment, once a year
    • Spot treat weeds if necessary
    • Major weed problems – understand cause
    • Environmental benefits
      • Endocrine disruptors
        • Children, pets
      • Watershed runoff
      • Ground water contamination
      • Non-target effects – pollinators
  • Dethatch
    • If necessary
    • Every 2-3 yr
  • Aerate
    • If necessary
    • Every 2-3 yr
• Lawn reduction
  • Replace with attractive low maintenance garden
    • Episode 10 – How to start a new garden bed
  • Keep just what you need – convert the rest
    • Low maintenance gardens
    • Groundcovers
      • Sedges
      • Blue grama grass
• Improved turfgrass varieties
  • Pearl’s Premium
    • Mixture of common turf species
  • Buffalo Grass –
    • CA – UC Verde
    • North – Legacy
    • South – Prestige
  • No Mow, Eco Lawn
    • Fine fescues, red fescues
  • Proper establishment is very important!