Guide to creating stripes on your garden lawn.
Creating a striped lawn is not difficult, as long as you have the right equipment and follow these guidlines. The two most important activities are cutting using a cylinder mower and scarifying.
1. As a mower runs over a lawn, provided it has a roller, it forces the grass in one direction and then in the opposite direction creating stripes. The heavier the mower, the more defined the stripe.
2. Cylinder mowers accentuate the striping because the grass is cut in one direction only.
3. Follow a pattern of cutting as shown below. Firstly cut around the perimeter of your lawn to provide a turning area then cut in straight lines either up and down your lawn or side to side with each cut slightly overlapping the previous one.
4. Other patterns can also look effective i.e. diagonal stripes or a chequer board effect cutting in one direction and then at right angles.
A Guide to Scarifying your Garden lawn
1. Thatch is layers of dead grass and moss which have accumulated on the surface of the soil and must be removed to maintain a healthy lawn.
2. There are two approaches to scarifying:
i) Remove little and often from March to October, except in drought conditions.
ii) A vigorous scarifying in the spring and autumn.
3. Scarifying by hand rake is hard work.
Mowersave can supply a wide range of scarifiers form push to self propelled and garden tractor mounted scarifiers , making this task much easier.
4. It is a good idea to apply a moss killer to the lawn a week or two before scarifying so that the dead moss can be removed more effectively.
5. Throughout the autumn the lawn scarifier can be used to remove light debris from the lawn
Author's Resource: Review Lawnmower Tips by Chis King. Copyright 2007 www.mowersave.com Lawnmower Tips Review.Webmaster may include this review on their site but the review must be published with the author's (resource box) and copyright information included
