Rabu, 14 September 2011

How to Grow Grass in Shady Areas

By Nick Harbard


Where do you turn if you have a shady area of land that needs new grass seed? Remember, there are particular kinds of grasses which are explicitly designed to thrive in shaded sections of your lawn. They have advanced over many thousands of years to be best suited for badly lit conditions. You ought to do your best to make the most of this.

A nice example of this type of grass is fescue, however, you are able to still use standard grass seeds too in those poorly lit areas, but you need to be careful to use it properly, as well as keep up it's general upkeep, because you will want to take care of grass in shaded parts of your plot of land in another way (and more professionally) than grass in wide open areas of land.

It is essential to always mow the lawn at the proper level and regularity for the sort of grass you're dealing with. A quick search on the internet will quickly come forward with all the details you'll need to do so, but take into account if you are at all in doubt you ought to ask a lawn care expert.

Water the grass deeply and prune or thin nearby trees to allow more direct sunlight down onto the grass. In shady areas grass requires the maximum amount of sunshine it can possibly get. Prune, trim down, and just about rid the bordering areas of pointless sunblocks for the grass, and contemplate mulch or shade-tolerant ground covers for largely shady parts. If you have heavily shaded areas in your lawn where the grass is thinning, check with a lawn care professional for advice on improving the lawn. Web searches can be good, but nothing surpasses the quality and quanity of the advice a lawn care specialist of several decades can provide.

To find out which of the above mentioned best-of-breed grasses will work for you communicate with a local lawn care expert or contact your local county extension service. They'll be able to show you through experience which ones will work for your situation, as well as point you in the path of local suppliers for each.

In addition, you want to be careful about combining different kinds together. For example, Fine Fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass tend to be advised for cold areas, but the two don't go well together in the same lawn. Fine Fescue is a bunching grass, while Kentucky Bluegrass is a spreading-type grass. You'll find yourself with sections of fine fescue growing up out of your Bluegrass lawn and it'll look horrible.




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