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Health & Fitness

You And Your Lawn: Growing A Healthy Relationship

Ensuring proper preparation can lead to a healthy, sustainable lawn.

One of the best investments you can make for your home is a healthy and sustainable lawn. There is a plethora of benefits your family and even the environment can enjoy out of it. Establishing a lawn through grass seeding is an effective and economical method. But before this process can be carried out, you need to go through a crucial step of site preparation. How you prepare the soil for the lawn seeding can have a significant implication on the quality of the lawn. Therefore, it makes no sense to cut corners or take shortcuts.

The removal of weeds is a vital step in site preparation. This can be accomplished manually by the hand so that weeds can be fully uprooted. There are also translocated nonselective herbicides that can be employed for weed removal. Other than the weeds, you also need to eliminate rocks, trash and other debris. To avoid this, purchasing quality topsoil from a reputable supplier will help to alleviate the work that can go into removing debris and tilling the soil.

It is best to spread the topsoil at least 4" thick to ensure proper grass growth.

Read more: http://www.steverazzconstruction.com/blog/bid/134143/What-Kind-of-Soil-Do-I-Use-For-Grass-Seeding-NJ-NY#ixzz1ypeSjGE5

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