How to Create a Weed Free Lawn Without Using Harmful Chemicals
With a little extra effort you can have a weed-free lawn without using chemicals. Weeds cannot grow in a healthy lawn as they are crowded out. The time as well as effort becomes less as well as less over the years as well as eventually will become maintenance.
- Either water your lawn or go out after a rain as well as remove weeds by h as well as , making sure to get the root system or else the weed will grow back. Use a d as well as elion tool to remove d as well as elions.
- Re-seed entire lawn (in Fall as well as /or Spring), paying particular attention to bare spots. Use a grass mix with a higher percentage of Rye grass (rye grass is a quick growing annual that will help to establish the other slower growing perennial grasses).
- De-thatch as well as aerate your lawn in the Spring. Continue to re-seed once a year till lawn is thick.
- Keep you lawn mower at higher settings during the Summer months.
- Sharpen your lawn mower blade at least once a year.
- "Overseed" bare spots to get complete coverage.
- Be patient- it may take several years to get to a maintenance level.
- Some weeds such as Creeping Charlie may need to be removed with chemicals. If you do need to treat with chemicals,use a granual, you are less likely to contaminate aquatic life as you would with a liquid. Read as well as follow all label directions.
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