Home lawn care is as complex or simple as you make it. Before you decide to put in various colors and varieties of exotic plants it is important to figure out just how much weekend time you have to spend on the maintenance of these special plants, or if you can afford to hire a professional landscape team come around in lieu of your own loving care to take regular care of your plants.

Lawn Tip 1

Some of the most important nutrients can be added to your lawn by letting it reclaim these same nutrients from the clipped grass pieces. Some of you might think that adding grass clippings or mulched branches and leaves will add or promote thatch to the lawn, but this is not true. For the most part, the more nutrients the better, and lawn clippings are best suited to support the living lawn.

Lawn Tip 2

When mowing your grass, try not to mow the entire yard, but rather 1/3 of the overall yard. Also, each time you mow, cover a different 1/3 of the yard. For example, if you start at a 3 o'clock position in your yard and go to a 7 o'clock position one time, start at 5 or 6 and go to 11. Keep the mowing pattern varied and you'll have a healthier lawn.

Lawn Tip 3

Try to remove new weeds before they get older, more established and just plain harder to remove.

Lawn Tip 4

Most lawns need about 1-2 inches of water each week. By watering the lawn early in the morning (4-9AM) it doesn't have a chance to encourage mold or fungus like nighttime watering does. This also keeps the sun from burning up all the dampness, thus robbing your lawn and your pocketbook.

Lawn Tip 5

The use of commercial fertilizer certainly can be overdone while more natural nutrients like those from compost or grass clippings really can't be overdone. You run the risk of poisoning your lawn in the long term if you overdo the recommended doses of fertilizer for your lawn.

Lawn Tip 6

Not only do powerful and efficient lawn mowers cut grass better and more consistently, but they have lower emissions which is better for the environment. Of course a manual or electric mower is even better for the environment, but you must think about other performance issues that come along with these other mower types before you get one.

An herbal lawn is only what it sounds like, a lawn that consists of an herb rather than a sort of grass. You can produce an herbal lawn out of many various types of herbs. The challenge really is finding an herb that tolerates important foot traffic at the same time that it is still comfortable if you like to sit or play on the lawn. There are many varieties of creeping thyme and chamomile that fall into this ideal middles ground.