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If your luck is such 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. But many of us do not have this luxury, and besides, even with a good topsoil base, the need to put in effort still exists to keep in excellent condition, you lawn and garden.

1. Mow a lawn at its best time, which is is when it is cool and dry. Wait for the morning dew to dry off, and before the afternoon heat takes hold. Alternatively, late afternoon or early evening following a watering in the morning is also a good time.

2. On the question of boundary division, a hedge has preferable qualities of separating boundaries than a fence. A more private provision is catered for, preventing children and pets from leaving, or entering. The shelter it provides will attract birds, and privision is made for a setting that will enhance flowers and plants.

3. Bring the beauty of your garden to you; hyacinths can be planted near doors and near paths. The scented, perfumed air they produce will overcome the air of early spring to brighten every aspect of your garden.

4. Bring you garden to the things that don't belong in a garden, lamp posts and mail boxes being an example. Wrap these things with flowering items that have been planted to gain an advantageous benefit the first to the last to flower. A suitable selection might be made up of snowdrops that are white, purple and gold crocus, tulips of whatever color, as well as hyacinths that are blue. You may wish to put large stones around the posts which will give better interest to the items.

5. The control of weeds is an achievement that your lawn can experience by mowing often during spring. Dandelions will thereby be caused to not spread through the elimination of the blossoms which are yellow as well as the formation of seeds being prevented. Late spring and early summer is the time to mow high. Grass blades can thereby be allowed to shade the ground, and the total suppression of crabgrass sprouting will be achieved.

Your lawn and garden is expected to be somewhere that your pride and your creation's beauty shines through. The expense of considerable sums is unecessary on expensive fertilizers and herbicides, or fancy lawn furniture and ornaments. A little commonsense and thought will take you as far as you need to go to enhancing that space outside your home a place that you love always.