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If your fortune holds to the extent that you are the owner of a lawn based on fine top soil, much of the hard work of keeping a lawn beautiful need not cause you any worries. This, however, does not apply to everyone, it is also the case of course, should a top soil base that is excellent exist, the need to put in effort still exists to hold the beauty of a fine garden and an excellent lawn.

1. The best time to mow a lawn should be the time when the lawn is dry and less hot. Linger until the damp dew of morning has left, and before the afternoon heat takes hold. Alternatively, late afternoon or early evening this should follow a water application in the morning is also a good time.

2. A hedge is a much better boundary divider than a fence. Privacy is better catered for, keeping little ones and family animals secure on either side. It is likely to attract birds due to the way it provides shelter for them, and provide a setting that will enhance flowers and plants.

3. Your garden should be brought right up to you; plant hyacinths near walkways and doors. The scented, perfumed air they produce will overcome the air of early spring and make your garden really come alive.

4. Add your garden to nongarden items, lamp posts and mail boxes being an example. Smother such mundane things with planted flowers to take advantage of flowers that go from the earliest to flower right up to the ones that flower last. You could have white snowdrops, purple and gold crocus, tulips of a variety of colors, and hyacinths colored blue. Rocks and boulders should be placed at the base of the posts to enhance their appearance.

5. Weed controlling methods is an achievement that your lawn can experience by mowing often during spring. Dandelions will thereby be caused to not spread by the yellow blossoms being taken out and preventing seed formation. Mow high during late spring and early summer. Grass blades can thereby be allowed to shade the ground, and the sprouting of crabgrass will also be prevented from happening.

The garden and the lawn that you own is expected to be somewhere that your pride and your creation's beauty shines through. Money in quantities need not be spent on expensive fertilizers and herbicides, or either chairs and tables, or statues, etc for the lawn. Carefull thinking and a sensible attitude will take you as far as you need to go towards creating a garden and a lawn a space that you prefer.