Fall Yard Maintenance - Yard Landscaping
Yard landscaping for next year doesn't begin next spring, rather, it begins this fall. Proper fall yard maintenance lowers the risk of plant diseases next spring. Raking the lawn ensures your grass won't smother under a burden of fallen leaves. Of course, fall yard maintenance means winterizing: putting your plants to bed properly, sheltering them where possible from the rigors of winter.
Fall Yard Maintenance
Answers to frequently asked questions about fall yard maintenance. Includes tips on watering, mowing, raking, weed control, sheltering shrubs and getting snowblowers ready for winter. Some of these fall yard maintenance tips could end up saving you a lot of money!
Answers to frequently asked questions about fall yard maintenance. Includes tips on watering, mowing, raking, weed control, sheltering shrubs and getting snowblowers ready for winter. Some of these fall yard maintenance tips could end up saving you a lot of money!
How to Use Leaf Blower/Vacs
This brief article addresses how to use leaf blower/vacs in the sense of developing a plan for employing leaf blower/vacs as one component in a yard-cleanup arsenal. Where it makes sense, use them to supplement rakes.
This brief article addresses how to use leaf blower/vacs in the sense of developing a plan for employing leaf blower/vacs as one component in a yard-cleanup arsenal. Where it makes sense, use them to supplement rakes.
Fall Cleanup: Sorting Leaves Into Compost and Mulch Bins
Okay, you've decided to recycle those leaves you're raking up. You'll use them next year for compost or mulch. But this article shows you how to be more efficient, by planning ahead. Bin aesthetics also considered.
Okay, you've decided to recycle those leaves you're raking up. You'll use them next year for compost or mulch. But this article shows you how to be more efficient, by planning ahead. Bin aesthetics also considered.
Fall Lawn Care Tips: Mowing, Other Fall Lawn Maintenance
The regimen right for your fall lawn care will vary, according to whether your lawn is composed of a warm season turf grass or a cool season turf grass. Examples of each are given. If you need to improve your soil, there are links for correcting soil pH, and for reducing soil compaction through aeration.
The regimen right for your fall lawn care will vary, according to whether your lawn is composed of a warm season turf grass or a cool season turf grass. Examples of each are given. If you need to improve your soil, there are links for correcting soil pH, and for reducing soil compaction through aeration.
Winterizing Your Shrubs After Autumn Leaves Fall
Step-by-step guide for do-it-yourselfers showing a free, fun and easy way to winterize shrubs. Don’t let snow snap those branches that will bear spring blooms! Photos accompany the major steps in the project, illustrating the techniques clearly. So besides raking up all those autumn leaves you enjoyed for their fall colors, remember to be good to the shrubs that will be so good to you in spring!
Step-by-step guide for do-it-yourselfers showing a free, fun and easy way to winterize shrubs. Don’t let snow snap those branches that will bear spring blooms! Photos accompany the major steps in the project, illustrating the techniques clearly. So besides raking up all those autumn leaves you enjoyed for their fall colors, remember to be good to the shrubs that will be so good to you in spring!
When Your Lawn is Beyond Maintenance: Sodding Lawns
You've come to the conclusion that your old lawn has had it. You want to start anew. Early fall is an excellent time for starting new lawns. Now it's just a question of which method you prefer. Let's look at sodding first. See the next entry for a different method.
You've come to the conclusion that your old lawn has had it. You want to start anew. Early fall is an excellent time for starting new lawns. Now it's just a question of which method you prefer. Let's look at sodding first. See the next entry for a different method.
Another Method for Installing a New Lawn: Seeding
In the immediately preceding entry, we looked at sodding as an option for installing new lawns. Seeding is another option. As with sodding, early fall is an excellent time for seeding lawns.
In the immediately preceding entry, we looked at sodding as an option for installing new lawns. Seeding is another option. As with sodding, early fall is an excellent time for seeding lawns.
Overseeding Lawns With Cool-Season Grasses
When cool-season grasses take a beating from the summer's heat, overseeding lawns is the answer to rejuvenate them. Overseeding lawns is best done in September for cool-season grasses.
When cool-season grasses take a beating from the summer's heat, overseeding lawns is the answer to rejuvenate them. Overseeding lawns is best done in September for cool-season grasses.
Overseeding Lawns With Warm-Season Grasses
Temporary lawn renovation can be achieved during Southern winters by a fall "overseeding" of lawns composed of warm-season grasses with cool-season annual ryegrass. Annual ryegrass will die back in time for your warm-season grasses to take center-stage again in summer, so that your winter lawn renovation won't interfere with your primary turf.
Temporary lawn renovation can be achieved during Southern winters by a fall "overseeding" of lawns composed of warm-season grasses with cool-season annual ryegrass. Annual ryegrass will die back in time for your warm-season grasses to take center-stage again in summer, so that your winter lawn renovation won't interfere with your primary turf.
Fall Yard Maintenance - Winterizing Lawns and Gardens
Tips on fall lawn care, lawn equipment maintenance and winterizing gardens. Lawns in fall require special care, including herbicide and lime applications (depending on the state of your lawn), thatch removal, and raking leaves or using power lawn equipment for their removal (leaf vacuums, etc.). Gardens should be put to bed properly in fall, facilitating spring gardening.
Tips on fall lawn care, lawn equipment maintenance and winterizing gardens. Lawns in fall require special care, including herbicide and lime applications (depending on the state of your lawn), thatch removal, and raking leaves or using power lawn equipment for their removal (leaf vacuums, etc.). Gardens should be put to bed properly in fall, facilitating spring gardening.
Carving Pumpkins and Halloween Yard Safety
Carving pumpkins for Halloween is fun but is not without its dangers. In this article I alert you to some Halloween yard safety concerns of which you may be unaware. These tips apply to you not only if you'll be carving pumpkins, but also if you expect trick or treaters to be arriving at your doorstep.
Carving pumpkins for Halloween is fun but is not without its dangers. In this article I alert you to some Halloween yard safety concerns of which you may be unaware. These tips apply to you not only if you'll be carving pumpkins, but also if you expect trick or treaters to be arriving at your doorstep.