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You’ve been staring out your window all winter with a wistful look on your face and frustration dominating your thoughts.
The white cover of snow taunts you. It prevents you from demonstrating your true purpose in life – your greatest, crowning achievement.
The thing that everyone knows you as.
You feel lost. Alone. Without purpose.
But then there is hope. The Great Melt begins. Soon you will return to your calling.
For you are Doug: Master of his Yard!
The rest of us can only bow down to Doug’s ability to maintain the perfect, green oasis every summer. It seems impossible to match his ability at maintaining such perfection.
Don’t be intimidated, though. You, too, can do the same if you follow a few basic principles. And, it all starts now, in the Spring, with the early work that transforms the yard from the wasteland that Winter left behind to the envy of the neighbourhood.
If you follow these simple suggestions, you can be far along the way to matching Doug and becoming Mary: The Magnificent Yard Magician:
The choice to fertilize or treat your lawn is a personal one and one where there is no right answer. With increased attention given to creating environmentally safer products, there will be options for the green conscious. However, many will still prefer to take things naturally.
That might be for ethical reasons or for aesthetic reasons – some believe a more natural look is more appealing than a flat green.
However, regardless of your feelings on treating your lawn, there is one thing that everyone can do and that will benefit any lawn.
You should aerate in the spring. By turning the ground up, you will allow the nutrients, rain, and sun that the grass and plants need to thrive to get where it needs to.
Best of all, this is a straightforward task. It’s really just a nice walk on your lawn with a roller. If you don’t own one, most Big Box stores can rent you one, or a landscaping company can provide the service at a reasonable price.
Winter can leave you surprises. The snow can wash a lot of funny things up onto your lawn. Dead grass, clumps of mud, and stones are just a few of the more natural things you can find laying there just waiting to get picked up.
Discarded toys, doggie bags (and not the good kind that you bring home from your favourite restaurant), coins, and plastic of all sorts are some of the less natural.
No two ways around it. You have to pick it up. Make a game out of it. Send the kids out and whoever picks up the most gets to pick out what’s for dinner!
Beyond the junk that winter leaves on your lawn, it will also just wreak havoc on the surface. You will inevitably find dead patches and even holes left behind.
Don’t fret. You were taking a run to the nursery any way to grab the flowers for the garden. Grab some grass seed and turf while you're there. Then fill in any holes and spread the seeds.
A good rule is to put twice as much seed down as you think, as less of it will take than you assume.
Lastly, don’t forget your old friends in the garden and yard. You’ll need to inspect all your trees and scrubs for dead branches and leaves.
And then you need to remove them. Even if it seems that you are cutting half the plant away, it will lead to a fuller and more attractive plant later in the summer.
There ya go! That’s all it takes to get yourself started to be the Master or Mistress of your yard this summer. Watch this space for more tips throughout the growing season.
