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Lawns Provide Natural Cooling and Energy Savings


A lawn which surrounds a home can also reduce and cool the ambient temperature of the home inside by many degrees which results in the use of less electricity required by air conditioning. Without our lawn, our home would be surrounded by concrete or paving which not only absorb and reflect heat back into the home, these hard surfaces also retain this heat into the night, which then keeps the home hotter for longer at nights, requiring more air conditioning for longer periods of time throughout the Summer months.

Lawn Types

Drought Tolerant Lawns

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Drought Tolerant Lawns Many people wanting a lawn for their homes are faced with uncertainties around water restrictions, while some others want a low maintenance and low cost lawn requiring the least amount of effort, including watering. This is where having a Drought Tolerant Lawn becomes important. There is nothing special or magical about lawns requiring less or even no additional watering other than the basics supplied by nature, and sometimes occasionally supplemented by us. A Drought...

Perennial Ryegrass

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Perennial Ryegrass Perennial Ryegrass is a good turf type for use as lawns around the North and North Central regions. It has low aggressive properties, germinates quickly and has a deep dark green color. Perennial Ryegrass is a shade tolerant Cool Season grass type which grows in clumping or bunching form, for this reason it will not spread into surrounding areas. Mixing Perennial Ryegrass With Other Grasses Perennial Ryegrass mixes very well with many different Cool Season grasses. Mixing...

Lawn Mowing

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Should I Mow Wet Grass Mowing wet grass is never a nice thing to do, but sometimes it may be both...
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The Importance Of Mowing Mowing lawns to many people seems like little more than a tedious chore...
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Overgrown Lawns Often we can come across an overgrown lawn which we are tasked to bring under...

Lawn Watering

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Collecting rainwater can seem like a natural, simple and easy thing to do for it's use around our...
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Watering our lawns is something which everybody realizes as a priority for maintaining any lawn,...

Lawn Weeds

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Barnyard Grass Barnyard grass is a nuisance weed to most homeowners when it grows into our lawns...
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Musk Thistle Musk Thistle is a weed which mainly occurs on acreages and roadsides in various parts...
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Reducing The Severity Of Weeds The first time many people begin thinking about weeds in the lawn is...

Lawn Fertilizers

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Fertilizing Cool Season Lawns requires a slightly different routine than fertilizing Warm...
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Fertilizer Numbers For most of us, when it's time to fertilize our lawns we head off to...
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Fertilizing St. Augustine Lawns St. Augustine is one of those grass types which can be...
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Top Lawn Care Tips

Top Lawn Care Tips
These Golden Rules of Lawn Care form the foundation stone of all Lawn Care Tips for everyone interested in maintaining their lawns to a high standard.

Lawn Diseases

Take All Root Rot

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Symptoms Of Take All Root Rot Take All Root Rot, also know as Take All Disease and Take All Patch, is a severe fungal disease which rots away at the root system of lawn, causing the lawn to first turn yellow, then brown, an...

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Dollar Spot

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Dollar Spot Disease Dollar Spot Lawn Disease is a fungal lawn disease which appears most often as multiple small brown patches which are usually the size of a dollar coin, but can be between 1 to 4 inches in diameter. In som...

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Lawn Repair

Lawn Aeration

The Benefits Of Lawn Aerating Aerating lawns is the process of creating holes throughout the lawn's surface for the purpose of breaking up soil compaction to allow the lawn and soil to receive more oxygen to the root zone. Lawn aeratio...

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Levelling A Lawn

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Reasons For Levelling A Lawn Lawns often develop indentations over time, these depressions on the lawns surface occur for many reasons, including normal wear and tear such as foot traffic, kids playing, walkways, cars or bi...

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