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4. Skipping a weekly mowing.
This seems harmless but can cause lasting
damage. Extended gaps between
mowings allow lawns to grow tall and
shaggy rather than thick and dense. If
done repeatedly, fewer blades of grass will
grow because tall grass will block out the
sun. When that tall grass finally is mowed,
the gaps between the blades will be large
enough for weeds to take hold.
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6. Overfertilizing.
Excess fertilizer could seriously dehydrate
grass, something known as “burning” the
lawn. And even if a lawn escapes this fate,
the excess fertilizer could make the grass
grow faster than normal, potentially leading
to scalping of the lawn when it is mowed,
as discussed earlier.
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8. Not knowing what type of grass you have.
Do you want to have a great lawn and you
need to know what type of grass you have.
After all, things like fertilization, water use,
mowing height and frequency, as well as
weed and pest control treatments may be
dependent upon what type of grass is
growing on your lawn. If you incorrectly
identify your grass, you could inadvertently
end up using the wrong type of treatment.
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10. Overwatering And Bagging grass
Watering your mature, healthy lawn every day, or
even every other day, is the definition of
overwatering. This is wrong no matter what other
people tell you or what your neighbors do! What is
wrong with watering like this?
•Overwatering wastes time and money and
contributes to pollution
•Excessive fertilizer applications are needed
•Shallowly rooted plants are easily stressed
•Overwatered lawns have more weeds
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13. Ignoring a new home’s special lawn needs.
When a home is built, the surrounding land
often is reshaped to encourage water to run
away from the structure. One unintended
consequence when the lawn is first planted
is that it might be planted in soil that until
very recently was subsoil, not topsoil. Subsoil
has not had plants growing in it—then dying
and decaying in it—so it lacks the nutrients
that grass needs to thrive.
