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If your fortune holds to the extent that you're lawn is growing on rich top soil, a great deal of the tedious effort to maintain the space can be dispensed with altogether. But many of us do not have this luxury, it is also the case of course, should a top soil base that is excellent exist, you will not be able to fully relax to hold the beauty of a fine garden and an excellent lawn.

1. Mow a lawn at its best time, which is is when it is cool and dry. Have patience to ensure that the dew of the morning has evaporated, and prior to the warm build up that takes place prior to evening. Alternatively, late afternoon or early evening preceeded by a moisture applying exercise when it was morning, which is a fine time as well.

2. Preference should be given to a hedge compared to a fence. The provision for privacy is superior, 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; paths and outside doors can have hyacinths planted near them. The scented, perfumed air they produce will overcome the air of early spring to produce a garden atmosphere you would never have believed possible.

4. Add your garden to nongarden items, for example, your mail box and any lamp post. Wrap these things with flowering items that have been planted to take advantage of flowers that go from the earliest to flower right up to the ones that flower last. A suitable selection might be made up of snowdrops that are white, crocus, both purple and gold hued, tulips of a variety of colors, and hyacinths colored blue. The base of the posts would benefit from the placement of stanes and rocks to lift them from their mediocrity.

5. Simple, but effective weed control can be achieved on your lawn by making spring the time to mow regularly. The prevention of dandelion spread will be caused through the elimination of the blossoms which are yellow as well as the formation of seeds being prevented. A highness of mowing is good in early summer, carrying on from late spring. The shading of the ground by grass blades will thereby be allowed, and will help prevent crabgrass from sprouting.

Your lawn and garden should be a source of pride and beauty. The expense of considerable sums is unecessary on non cheap enhancing compounds for your garden, or either chairs and tables, or statues, etc for the lawn. A little commonsense and thought will carry you far to enhancing that space outside your home a much better place.