Lawn Care Schedule – Keeping it Simple

What particular lawn care schedule is your lawn on? Hopefully it is one for the region in which you live, not one from another time zone. Taking care of our yards can be a year round for some and for others, it’s an on and off again thing. For most of us, the four seasons are experienced; however, some may get snow while others get extreme cold.

Your basic lawn care schedule is based on the seasons, not when you realize that your lawn is looking a little sad. Some people, for whatever reason, only take care of their lawns when it’s a last resort. Unfortunately for them, they almost never have a nice lawn and in fact it really doesn’t take much work to make one look great.

If you want to get down to the nitty gritty, it really doesn’t cost much to maintain a healthy lawn. For arguments sake, here we will just discuss the basics that need to be done when caring for a lawn. The most important thing to remember is that your lawn should never be neglected. Once this happens, it will take a lot of work to get looking new again.

The Basics

What are the basics of a lawn care schedule? Assuming you don’t get snow in the winter, you will need to mow in the spring, summer and fall. You may need to mow once in the winter but that is only if the grass hasn’t gone dormant.

Mowing weekly and on the same day keeps you on schedule. However, if you can’t mow once a week don’t let too much time lapse in between times otherwise your mower will have issues with the long grass. Also, you may want to keep the grass a little longer in the summer to retain moisture while it’s better to have shorter grass in the winter to aerate the ground.

Watering is also a big part of a proper lawn care schedule. If you have an automatic watering system, you will need to adjust it as the temperatures change. In the cooler months, you shouldn’t need to water (if at all) compared to during the hotter months.

For those who receive a lot of moisture in the fall and winter, you really should have no need to even be watering the lawn at all. Let Mother Nature do her thing then you can help out again next spring.

Fertilizing is also very important. Your lawn requires nutrients to stay healthy. It must fight off weeds, it must recover from a lot of foot traffic and it must deal with pests and weather.

Weeds use some of the nourishment that the soil provides. Regular watering, rain and the wind also remove necessary nutrients from the soil; so fertilizing every season is a must. If you don’t believe fertilizing every season is necessary, then at least fertilize in the spring when new growth is occurring and in the fall to replenish lost nutrients from the warm weather months and to prepare the lawn for the winter.

So we discussed mowing, watering and fertilizing. That wasn’t too difficult now was it? Getting into the grove of a lawn care schedule for your lawn will result in a healthy and beautiful lawn.