Do green fingers + green eyed monsters = a green healthy lawn?
27 May 2019
Dear LPG,
Here is an equation for you…
I know it will be a bit late to start thinking about this by the time LPG is able to publish my message, and I have to say that, every spring, I put it off for as long as possible. I have to admit to having eyes green with envy when I look at some of the neighbouring lawns, while no amount of green nail varnish is going to make me a better gardener! I am a not-so-young daughter that lives with a mother who gets in the garden as early as possible each year, while my idea of gardening is making the lawn look tidy, and I have to admit that I put that job off as long as I can.
Our lawn is green and there are not too many bald patches but I did buy all the necessary things needed to deal with them last year. I put them in the shed and there they still are because as it got later I decided to leave that job until this summer.
There is no doubt about it, our lawn has looked better and I am writing this on Monday February 25th 2019, which has been dubbed the warmest ever February day on record, but when should you begin your summer attack on the lawn?
For those who, like me, like to see it looking nice so that we can sit out in the summer and enjoy an alfresco meal or two with visitors, I thought I would take a look at what the internet has to offer and all the websites tell me that warm and dry are the best qualities that long winter grass need before the mower blades come out.
I have decided that if it is as nice for the next two days as it has been today, I will have to concede and find the key to the garden shed! Of course the other consideration is how much ribbing I will get from my mother about getting stuck in in the meantime…
I thought that, for all the other reluctant gardeners who have resolved to do better this year, I would ask LPG to share the websites that I found on the subject. If you are anything like me, you will feel that reading about how best to deal with the garden is as valuable an endeavour as actually getting out there.
YP, Bellingham
YP has offered the following information on the subject of getting the Lawn just right.
LPG wanted to bring your attention to an article inspired by YP’s mother and first aired late last year. It may help older gardeners’ aches and pains a little after their gardening work out, and we would also take you back to February 25th this year’s weather.
