How To Have The Best Yard On Your Block This Fall 

Learn how to prepare for the best lawn or garden

When it comes to your lawn, it’s easy to rest on your laurels. After all, you did all the hard work to make it the paradise it has become.  

So, as you sit on your deck enjoying the last few days of summer, it can be hard to motivate yourself to do any more work. It’s just so easy to let things slide and just sit back and relax.  

Don’t do it!  

Well, do relax a little, but don’t ignore the proper yard maintenance needed to make sure that you continue to have the best lawn and garden on your block.

Avoid common lawn or garden issues

If you don’t stay on top of your lawn or garden, it can lead to problems. Five common lawn or garden issues you’ll want to avoid are:

1. Patchy grass

2. Insect infiltration  

3. Weeds  

4. Pet damage

5. Dying shrubbery or trees

How to do proper lawn care for fall

If you have done the hard work of creating a healthy lawn or garden in the springtime, you shouldn’t need to spend a lot of time working to prepare it for fall. Just a few simple tasks to maintain it and give your lawn or garden the best chance possible of entering the fall months healthy.

Here are a few things to keep on top of.

Avoid clutter or debris in your lawn or garden

Spending 5 minutes a day tidying up the lawn can go a long way to keeping it healthy. It may not seem like a big deal to leave the kid’s toys out, but you’d be surprised at how fast a covered piece of grass can wilt and die, leaving dry patches on an otherwise green lawn.

Rotate lawn furniture

Similarly, to make sure debris isn’t damaging your lawn, you should make an effort to move your lawn furniture to different spots to avoid damaging a specific part of the lawn. Besides, it’s nice to have a different view when you are sitting relaxing.  

Yes, you are going to need to weed

No one likes to weed, but it’s an important part of lawn maintenance. Unless you want a yard full of dandelions, that is.  

Prune trees and shrubs

Removing dead branches and discoloured leaves from your trees and shrubs does more than make them look nicer. It also allows the tree or shrub to get more nutrition to the parts of it that are flourishing. That, in turn, makes it grow healthier! So, take a few minutes every week with those pruning scissors.  

What about garden care?

As the summer winds down, you will need to start to think about closing out the season for the garden. The best thing about that is that you get to eat all the tasty vegetables that you grew over the summer.  

So, as the summer winds down make sure that you are doing the following with your garden.

1. Harvest the vegetables  

2. Aerate the soil

3. Fertilize the soil

4. Cover the ground with mulch

By following these simple tips, you can spend more time enjoying your lawn or garden and less time stressed about its condition.  

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