March is the perfect time to put in the time and effort to make your lawn look green, beautiful, and lush. A green property offers a place to rest, play, and picnic in warmer weather. However, a healthy and lush lawn is only achieved by magic; with proper care, your property can become weedy, lack nutrients, or develop a patchy appearance. Although you should care for your lawn year-round, spring is a great time to work on improving the vitality of your property.
Here are 6 great spring lawn cleanup tips.
1. Wait For Them To Dry
Regardless of how you clean your lawn, whether with a lawn vacuum, rake, or another method, the entire process will be easier and faster if you wait for dry conditions. Moisture causes debris to stick together in heavy clumps, making your job more complicated than necessary.
2. Clean Up Large Debris First
You’ll want to remove anything too big for it to pick up. While pineapples, gumballs, nuts, and small sticks will pick up without a problem, large branches should be removed beforehand.
3. Uncover Flower Beds And Shrubs
If you are raking, get close to trees, bushes, hedges, and thoroughly clear flower beds. If you use a leaf blower, we recommend the vacuum hose, which easily attaches to your machine and allows you to vacuum hard-to-reach places. Debris left in flower beds and around shrubs can stunt growth and encourage disease.
4. Clean Hard Surfaces
Sidewalks, driveways, paths, and other non-grass surfaces also need spring cleaning. Vacuum debris from sidewalks and sidewalks and rake displaced gravel back to driveways and paths.
5. Get Rid Of Thatch Buildup
Thatch is dead grass blades and other small weeds that accumulate on top of the soil at the base of the live grass blades. If the buildup gets thick enough, it can choke the grass by restricting the flow of air and water to the soil. Spring is a perfect time to remove thatch for the summer growing season. Depending on your thatch buildup, a leaf vacuum may be all you need to clean it up. For particularly thick buildup, a rake or scarifier may be necessary.
6. Once You Have Finished Cleaning Your Lawn
Compost waste material! Once it breaks down, it will be a great way to improve soil structure and return vital nutrients to your garden. For larger debris, you could grind it down to a fine mulch with a chipper or shredder.