Knowledge base on vineyard home and garden magazine

Should you be fortunate you are the owner of a lawn based on fine top soil, a great deal of the tedious effort to maintain the space can be dispensed with altogether. Of course, not all of us are in this position, and as well, when a fine topsoil base exists, you still have to work hard in order to maintain a lawn and garden that is perfect.

1. The optimum moment to have a lawn mowed should be the time when the lawn is dry and less hot. 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. Or you may wish to perform this act early in the evening, or late in the afternoon this should follow a water application in the morning is also a good time.

2. Preference should be given to a hedge compared to a fence. A more private provision is catered for, keep pets and children in or out. It is likely to attract birds due to the way it provides shelter for them, and it gives a setting that will enhance flowers and plants.

3. Your garden should be brought right up to you; hyacinths should be planted close to doors, as well as paths. The heady perfumed smell will swamp the spring air and will enhance your garden in ways you didn't think possible.

4. Bring you garden to the things that don't belong in a garden, lamp posts and mail boxes being an example. Smother such mundane things with planted flowers to gain an advantageous benefit the earliest to the latest flowerings. You may wish to see snowdrops, white in color, crocus, both purple and gold hued, tulips of a variety of colors, and hyacinths colored blue. You may wish to put large stones around the posts to lift them from their mediocrity.

5. Uncomplicated control of weeds is an achievement that your lawn can experience by making spring the time to mow regularly. The effect that will be achieved is the suppression of the spread of dandelions 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. The shading of the ground by grass blades will thereby be allowed, as well as crabgrass being prevented from performing a sprouting action.

The garden and the lawn that you own should be a source of pride and beauty. You don't need to spend lots of money on non cheap enhancing compounds for your garden, or either chairs and tables, or statues, etc for the lawn. Some careful preplanning can go a long way to making your lawn and garden a place that you love always.