How To Keep Your Grass Green

One of the most common reasons to have a lawn is to see that green in your front yard. You want to keep your grass green, but it’s hard to do. The heat from the sun can dry up a lawn faster than you think, leaving it brown and dead. But with a few tips, and some products from your closest Pioneer Landscaping Center, you can keep your grass green.

TIPS FOR KEEPING YOUR GRASS GREEN

1. GET RID OF WEEDS

Everyone knows what weeds are. Nobody wants them. You want to scour your yard for any weeds semi-regularly and pull them out as soon as you can. In case you don’t know the specifics, weeds hurt the turf of your lawn, competing with the grass you’re trying to keep alive for the air, water, and nutrients you put into the soil.

If you have weeds, you might notice browning in the grass around them. They tend to absorb the nutrients they need better than grass can, which causes this. To keep your grass green, you can pull them out, or spray them with weed killer. They’re such a common problem that there are multiple ways to deal with them. If you need tools to get rid of weeds, check out our catalog of landscaping tools.

2. IMPROVE SOIL QUALITY

If you find that your grass is dying in splotches around your yard, but there aren’t any weeds, it may be time to change your soil. It could be a number of things, such as diseases, heat, or lack of nutrients. These are signs that it’s time to change your soil if you want to keep your grass green.

Replacing it can help get rid of any diseases that are targeting your grass, aerate your lawn, and provide better nutrients. This can sometimes mean starting over with some of your grass, but that may be necessary if your lawn is already browning.

3. USE ORGANIC FERTILIZER

While organic fertilizer has lower concentrations of nutrients, they don’t make a crust in the soil. This allows water to move through the soil better, add structure to the soil, and make it easier for the grass to hydrate itself. It’s most common for grass to brown because of dehydration, so helping water get to the roots will help to keep your grass green.

4. MOW YOUR LAWN REGULARLY

This doesn’t mean mow your lawn all the time but mow it enough so that it consistently stays at a height between 2.5 to 3 inches. You don’t want it to grow too long that grass strands fight for sunlight, but you also don’t want them to be so short that they become weak and die.

If you find that you’re mowing a lot, more than once every week and a half, it’s okay to let your grass grow a bit more than needed. If you mow your grass too often in a short period of time, it may not have food reserves stored in its root system. When you cut your grass, you stimulate it, and it’s prompted to replace its lost length more and more each time.

5. AERATE REGULARLY

Aeration helps circulate air through your lawn. Your lawn may not always look it from where you usually stand, but it’s its own ecosystem. Ecosystems need to be filtrated with air to stay healthy and nutritious to keep your green grass growing. Aerating your grass with a garden fork, which you can grab among our landscaping tools, to get oxygen to the organisms that keep your lawn healthy.

6. DON’T OVERWATER

We say this a lot, but you can’t overwater any plant. It’ll drown your plant with water it doesn’t need and keep oxygen from getting to it. You’ll effectively drown it, which will eventually lead to your lawn browning.

To keep your grass green, you want to either move your sprinklers or your watering hose around to keep puddles and runoffs from forming. Once you start seeing puddles and runoffs, you’ve watered an area enough. If either thing happens, try to flush it down the driveway or walkway. You don’t drown your plants immediately, but by leaving them to soak in more water than they need.

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL PIONEER LANDSCAPING CENTER TO KEEP YOUR GRASS GREEN

The goal of maintaining any lawn should be to keep the plants healthy, the grass alive, and your property looking good. If you ever feel lost or unsure of what you should be doing to keep your lawn thriving, contact your local Pioneer Landscaping Centers. We have the tools and representatives to help you care for your lawn.