Accept that you can t grow grass everywhere.
Grow a thick green lawn.
The new organic lawn fertilizer.
A thick healthy lawn illustration below that doesn t provide weed seeds adequate sunlight or open space to germinate is your best defense against weeds.
If the thatch layer gets to be more than about 1 2 inch thick it can be unhealthy for your grass and should be removed through a process called dethatching.
Read on for what to do right now and in the weeks ahead to cultivate a hardy healthy patch of green.
How to make your lawn thick and weedless.
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Just apply and sit back.
If your lawn s thatch buildup is right around 1 2 inch you have a minor lawn thatch problem that is fairly easy to deal with.
How to water your lawn.
Let nature do the rest for a thick green lawn.
Fill the spreader on the driveway not over the thick grass.
Kill the weeds without killing the earth.
A thick well fed lawn is your best defense against weeds which can t compete for space and nutrients.
Mow often enough to maintain your grass type at its recommended mowing height without removing more than one third of the height in a single mowing.
Only shade tolerant grasses such as red fescue festuca rubra usda zones 3 through 7 and st.
Augustinegrass stenotaphrum secundatum usda zones 8 through 10 grow thick and full in a lawn.
Making your lawn thick lush and green is not hard.
How to get a thin lawn thicker.
Leaving the grass long 3 inches or more encourages roots to grow deeper where they ll weather drought better.
Rather than mowing based on your weekly calendar mow according to grass needs.
Or at least spread a tarp on the grass to catch spillage.
If you have an accident you ll have a nice big dead spot in your lawn.
Within months you ll have the best lawn in the neighborhood.
Simply follow doc s program and within weeks you ll start to see a thicker greener lawn.
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A sick spotty lawn leaves lots of open space for weeds to take root and grow.
13 homemade weed killers that work.