Maintaining your garden isn’t as simple as you might think. It requires a lot of time, patience, and dedication. Above all, it’s essential to give it the right care to preserve your plants. Knowing that temperature changes have a significant impact on plants is crucial: flowers, trees, and shrubs need to be watered regularly to avoid drying out. Lawns also need to be moistened. However, many people tend to overlook this. Discover this simple trick that will help you take better care of your garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What could be sadder than the sight of a dry, yellowing lawn? Over time, without proper care and the right amount of water, the lush, green grass will eventually wither, dry out, and die. But how often should you water it, and why stick a screwdriver in the soil? We’ll tell you everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Maintaining your lawn properly means first meeting its basic needs. Watering is one of them. As you suspected, summer has surely taken its toll: after the long, hot, sunny days, your lawn is now yellow and dry. This is the time to give it some extra care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First step: it needs to be mowed properly. Rake thoroughly and remove all dead stems and the top layer they create. Keep in mind that dry grass hinders water penetration to the roots, leading to rot and the development of fungal diseases. That’s why scarifying the lawn is essential : air and water will reach the soil even faster, helping to thoroughly clean the surface of dead stems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Second step: Water the lawn thoroughly until the water soaks into the deeper layers of the soil. After that, you’ll need to reduce the frequency of watering, especially in winter when it rains often. However, it’s important to mow the lawn regularly to encourage greener, more lush growth. Don’t forget to pull weeds as soon as they appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After three or four weeks, the grass will begin to grow. Remember not to fertilize it in the summer. It’s only around September that you can consider doing so. But be aware that a dry lawn is more susceptible to weeds . Therefore, from the beginning of spring, you should take care to remove them regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s move on to our famous trick: it’s primarily a means of prevention, or rather, anticipation. In fact, before it’s too late and your lawn suffers serious damage, it would be wiser to take certain steps to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, it’s essential to regularly check the condition of your lawn to ensure it’s sufficiently hydrated and well-aerated. To be sure, gardening expert Laurent Guervenec recommends using a simple and quick method that only requires a common screwdriver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How do you perform the “screwdriver test”? Push it into the soil of your lawn with your hand. If it slides easily to a depth of 15 to 17 centimeters, it’s perfect. This shows that your lawn is being watered properly and is well-hydrated. If, on the other hand, you feel resistance or it gets stuck, then the soil is too hard and compacted. This means it lacks aeration and moisture. You need to water it more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maintaining your garden isn’t as simple as you might think. It requires a lot of time, patience, and dedication. Above all, it’s essential to give it the right care to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18084,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garden-tricks.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}