Lawn care is a major issue with homeowners. Your lawn is the first thing you see when you look at your home. Nothing compares with a beautiful, lush, green lawn, it relays the message that you care about your home and image that it projects to others.
How to repair a bare patch of lawn is the most common question that we get from our readers ask. Here are some easy to follow instructions, a step by step process that will repair that bare patch and have it quickly blend in with the rest of your beautiful, lush lawn.
1) Remove any debris or dead grass from the bare patch of lawn
2) With a hard tooth lawn rake break up the soil.
3) Take about 2 inches of compost and add it to the existing soil. With your rake , mix in the compost with the soil to make a nice blend.
4) Using the top edge of the rake even out the surface that you have just created and mix some of the soil with the adjacent areas of lawn.
5) Buy some good quality seed and sprinkle it evenly across the area . Remember when picking your seed it should be seed that is appropriate for your region.
6) Once this is done you will want to add a starter fertilizer. Try getting a fertilizer with weed control. This will allow the grass seed to germinate without any weeds.
7) With your rake, lightly rake the seed and fertilizer to a depth of about 1/2 inch.
8) Step down on the earth to ensure the soil connects to seeds. If a roller is available that would be optimal
9) Water the area lightly and make sure to keep the seeds moist until they are an inch high.
10) Your bare patch of lawn should be fill in and blending well within a couple of mowing’s.
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