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If you’ve got grass in your garden, odds are you’ve thought about how to grow the perfect lawn more than once.
For many people, perfection isn’t even necessary. They just want to know how to make their grass green. Or at least, greener. Anything to not be stuck with a browning, dying patch which never quite looks healthy enough.
Because a green and healthy lawn is a statement all of its own. If you’re looking to sell your property, it’s a good boost to those oh so important first impressions. If you want to make your home look well-cared-for, green and happy grass will do that, too.
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Step one of how to make grass thicker and fuller is to prepare the soil. Without good quality soil, your grass-growing job is going to be a whole lot harder.
If you’re always struggling with thickening lawn grass – especially if you notice a constant spread of weeds like clover or moss, creeping charlie, or even mushrooms – then the quality of your soil is likely to blame.
Because making grass greener isn’t just a case of treating the grass itself. You need to consider every aspect of your plants’ environment if you want to get a lush, green lawn.
If you’re not sure whether it’s your soil that is at fault, there’s an easy way to check. You can buy a soil testing kit from many local gardening centres, as well as online.
A test will tell you what your soil’s pH level is and other details about the conditions which may help you work out how to make grass greener and thicker.
Normally if you were trying to get a greener lawn, you’d have to guess. After a soil test, you know whether you need to boost your soil pH with a little lime or some other commonly available ingredients.
Establishing good-quality soil may solve your problem. It will naturally provide a better bed for your lawn, so you will need to worry a whole lot less about getting thick grass.
Armed with your soil test information, you’ll have a much better idea of what steps to take next when it comes to getting a nice lawn.
For most people, at least one of those steps will be aeration. Aerating your lawn is a process which involves poking thin holes in your soil, ready to receive a quantity of fertiliser.
Aeration is making grass grow 101. It’s an easy way to get your soil the nutrients it needs. Without – crucially – needing to dig up all of your grass and start over again from scratch, which is really the only other option.
If you’ve been struggling with getting a green lawn for a long time and nothing seems to work, aeration is almost certainly going to be required. It may be needed two or three times per year for those real problem cases. However, if you don’t feel comfortable aerating your lawn yourself, you can always opt for a professional aeration service.
Phase two of how to have a beautiful lawn involves overseeding. If you’ve been working on thickening your lawn but have seen lots of weeds or bare patches, this is another solid step to take. Here’s how it works:
If you’re having trouble with getting your grass to grow greener, the problem could be something as simple as a lack of proper feeding.
Many people who think they’ve hit a wall growing a nice lawn simply need to establish better fertilising patterns.
Much like many things in life, you’ll always find it easier to resolve questions of how to make your grass grow green and thick if you base it on actual facts and data. In this case, the results of your soil test.
You can then create and use fertiliser by:
Step four of your plan to make grass greener will be all about watering. You can increase the chances of having a thicker lawn by watering sensibly:
If you want to make your lawn greener with watering – or irrigation, as it’s sometimes called – you need to follow good watering practices too:
A classic mistake that most people make when they’re trying to work out how to make grass thicker and greener is to mow every week or every so many days. Essentially, they mow when they think they should rather than when their grass actually needs it.
There are a few simple things to bear in mind when mowing if you want to increase your chances of getting a green lawn:
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The most obvious sign that something is wrong that most people notice when they’re trying to grow a beautiful lawn is the presence of weeds.
Weeds tend to show you that, in order to make your grass greener and thicker, you need to get a better balance of nutrients and minerals for your lawn.
Of course, you want to remove weeds when you see them (although it’s a good idea to do this in Autumn). But to control them – and prevent them from coming back – you want to improve the quality of your soil from your grass’s point of view.
Take all of the steps listed above and you should be well on your way to a perfect green lawn.
And, of course, if manual labour isn’t your cup of tea but you’d still like a lush, green lawn, you can always turn to a professional. Our helpful blog post can shed some light on what’s included in a lawn care service and its pricing factors.
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