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GET LAWN CARE SERVICE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA TODAY
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Proper Florida Lawn Maintenance
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Proper Florida Lawn Maintenance
Proper lawn maintenance is vital for the long-term health of your lawn.
Appropriate mowing and watering practices must occur so your lawn will have a healthy root system, be more drought-tolerant and be able to resist pests and disease. More lawns are damaged by improper irrigation than by any other practice.
Follow these tips for more efficient and beneficial watering:
If you don’t have a rain shutoff sensor to override your irrigation system – get one installed! It’s the law!
Recent changes to the state law now require all residential irrigation systems to have a rain shutoff sensor. Check your rain sensor to see if it shuts off your system when enough rain has fallen.
Broken or misaligned sprinkler heads can waste water and lead to runoff.
Inspect your sprinklers on a regular basis. Perform a catch-can test to determine how long you need to run your irrigation system and readjust the timer if necessary. In most parts of Florida, no more than 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch of water is appropriate.
Heavier clay soils need only about 1/2 inch of water while sandy soils may need up to 3/4 inch of water. Turn your system to the “off” or “manual” position.
Water only when leaf blades start to fold in half lengthwise or when footprints remain visible for a few minutes.
Irrigate when about 30 percent of the lawn shows these signs, unless rain is forecast in the next 24 hours.
No matter what time of year, remember, lawns need no more than 1/2 to 3/4 inch of water at a time. In the cooler months, lawns only need water only every 10 to 14 days. That means you can skip every other week of irrigating in the winter months. In the summer months lawns need water more often–every 2 to 3 days. But summer rainfall normally supplies enough water without irrigation.
Never remove more than 1/3 of the leaf blade at any one time. Cutting too much of the leaf blade can stress your lawn. If your lawn is under any stress (shade, traffic, drought, etc.), raise the mowing height. Mow at the highest height for your grass species. Mowing at lower heights can result in a shallow root system.
Keep your mower blades sharp.
A dull blade tears the grass blades, makes it unattractive and prone to disease or insect invasion.
Do not mow when the lawn is wet. It can be dangerous for you, tough on the mower and bad for the grass.
If you miss a weekly mowing, raise the mower height so you don’t remove too much of the grass blade. Bring the height back down to the recommended level gradually over the next few weeks. Keep grass clippings away from storm drains, ditches, water bodies and roadways. Leave grass clippings on the ground. They do not contribute to thatch, and return nutrients and organic matter back to the lawn.
Most watering restrictions limit irrigation to certain days and times. It is best to irrigate around sunrise or in the early morning hours so leaf blades have time to dry out fully during the day.
Apply enough water to encourage deep root growth. Brief “spritzes” will result in a shallow root system. For more information on Florida-Friendly Fertilizing, contact your county UF/IFAS Extension office.
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Proper Florida Lawn Maintenance
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Proper Florida Lawn Maintenance
Proper lawn maintenance is vital for the long-term health of your lawn.
Appropriate mowing and watering practices must occur so your lawn will have a healthy root system, be more drought-tolerant and be able to resist pests and disease. More lawns are damaged by improper irrigation than by any other practice.
Follow these tips for more efficient and beneficial watering:
If you don’t have a rain shutoff sensor to override your irrigation system – get one installed! It’s the law!
Recent changes to the state law now require all residential irrigation systems to have a rain shutoff sensor. Check your rain sensor to see if it shuts off your system when enough rain has fallen.
Broken or misaligned sprinkler heads can waste water and lead to runoff.
Inspect your sprinklers on a regular basis. Perform a catch-can test to determine how long you need to run your irrigation system and readjust the timer if necessary. In most parts of Florida, no more than 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch of water is appropriate.
Heavier clay soils need only about 1/2 inch of water while sandy soils may need up to 3/4 inch of water. Turn your system to the “off” or “manual” position.
Water only when leaf blades start to fold in half lengthwise or when footprints remain visible for a few minutes.
Irrigate when about 30 percent of the lawn shows these signs, unless rain is forecast in the next 24 hours.
No matter what time of year, remember, lawns need no more than 1/2 to 3/4 inch of water at a time. In the cooler months, lawns only need water only every 10 to 14 days. That means you can skip every other week of irrigating in the winter months. In the summer months lawns need water more often–every 2 to 3 days. But summer rainfall normally supplies enough water without irrigation.
Never remove more than 1/3 of the leaf blade at any one time. Cutting too much of the leaf blade can stress your lawn. If your lawn is under any stress (shade, traffic, drought, etc.), raise the mowing height. Mow at the highest height for your grass species. Mowing at lower heights can result in a shallow root system.
Keep your mower blades sharp.
A dull blade tears the grass blades, makes it unattractive and prone to disease or insect invasion.
Do not mow when the lawn is wet. It can be dangerous for you, tough on the mower and bad for the grass.
If you miss a weekly mowing, raise the mower height so you don’t remove too much of the grass blade. Bring the height back down to the recommended level gradually over the next few weeks. Keep grass clippings away from storm drains, ditches, water bodies and roadways. Leave grass clippings on the ground. They do not contribute to thatch, and return nutrients and organic matter back to the lawn.
Most watering restrictions limit irrigation to certain days and times. It is best to irrigate around sunrise or in the early morning hours so leaf blades have time to dry out fully during the day.
Apply enough water to encourage deep root growth. Brief “spritzes” will result in a shallow root system. For more information on Florida-Friendly Fertilizing, contact your county UF/IFAS Extension office.
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How to Care for Your Waterfront Lawn in Florida
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How to Care for Your Waterfront Lawn in Florida
Living on the waterfront in Florida can pose many challenges including how we manage our lawns.
Fertilization practices are extremely important anytime we’re managing lawns close to water bodies. The Florida Green Industries Best Management Practices have been developed for preservation of Florida’s water bodies and part of this program deals extensively with how to properly apply fertilizer to your lawn.
To stay healthy and provide good ground cover, lawns need nutrients.
Some of these nutrients come from the air and some come from the soil. Some will need to be applied as fertilizer. Lawns should be fertilized during the times when they are actively growing which is primarily the spring and summer months throughout Florida.
The target for the fertilizer is the root of the plant meaning that you need to apply the fertilizer uniformly to the surface of the lawn and then water it in with a small amount of water about one quarter of an inch to move it to the roots for best uptake.
Here are some key points to remember when fertilizing your lawn so that the fertilizer stays on the grass and out of the water body.
First make sure that you apply fertilizer at the recommended University of Florida rates, over-fertilization can increase the tendency for the nutrients to move on down through the soil.
Also don’t fertilize before a heavy rainfall and when you irrigate after fertilization, apply only a quarter inch of water.
Be sure also that if you get fertilizer on an impervious surface, like this sidewalk behind us, that you sweep it up or it will wind up in the water body and be sure to stay ten feet away from water bodies anytime you’re fertilizing.
Always follow the UF /IFAS fertilizer recommendations for your particular grass species and your location in the state.
For more information on fertilizer rates, refer to: YourFloridaLawn.ifas.ufl.edu Remember that it’s important that we all do our part to protect Florida’s waterfront and water resources and how we fertilize our lawns can play a big part in this.
Thank you for stopping by our blog here at 1st Call Lawn Maintenance & Irrigation. For more information on how to maintain your Florida-Friendly landscape, please subscribe to our blog or stay connected to us on our social media sites below.
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How to Care for Your Waterfront Lawn in Florida
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How to Care for Your Waterfront Lawn in Florida
Living on the waterfront in Florida can pose many challenges including how we manage our lawns.
Fertilization practices are extremely important anytime we’re managing lawns close to water bodies. The Florida Green Industries Best Management Practices have been developed for preservation of Florida’s water bodies and part of this program deals extensively with how to properly apply fertilizer to your lawn.
To stay healthy and provide good ground cover, lawns need nutrients.
Some of these nutrients come from the air and some come from the soil. Some will need to be applied as fertilizer. Lawns should be fertilized during the times when they are actively growing which is primarily the spring and summer months throughout Florida.
The target for the fertilizer is the root of the plant meaning that you need to apply the fertilizer uniformly to the surface of the lawn and then water it in with a small amount of water about one quarter of an inch to move it to the roots for best uptake.
Here are some key points to remember when fertilizing your lawn so that the fertilizer stays on the grass and out of the water body.
First make sure that you apply fertilizer at the recommended University of Florida rates, over-fertilization can increase the tendency for the nutrients to move on down through the soil.
Also don’t fertilize before a heavy rainfall and when you irrigate after fertilization, apply only a quarter inch of water.
Be sure also that if you get fertilizer on an impervious surface, like this sidewalk behind us, that you sweep it up or it will wind up in the water body and be sure to stay ten feet away from water bodies anytime you’re fertilizing.
Always follow the UF /IFAS fertilizer recommendations for your particular grass species and your location in the state.
For more information on fertilizer rates, refer to: YourFloridaLawn.ifas.ufl.edu Remember that it’s important that we all do our part to protect Florida’s waterfront and water resources and how we fertilize our lawns can play a big part in this.
Thank you for stopping by our blog here at 1st Call Lawn Maintenance & Irrigation. For more information on how to maintain your Florida-Friendly landscape, please subscribe to our blog or stay connected to us on our social media sites below.
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How Long to Run the Sprinklers
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How Long to Run the Sprinklers
If you have an irrigation system, it’s important for you to have it set properly so that you water grass just as much as it needs and not more. A good lawn needs about an inch of water a week to stay healthy but a lot of people don’t know what that translates to in terms of time on their timer.
So it is recommended to just set out anything, a rain gauge, a plastic bucket out on the lawn, and turn on your sprinkler system and run it for exactly fifteen minutes. And then measure how much water accumulates in this and divide it by four and that’s how much output your sprinkler heads give per hour.
You don’t want to give it a full inch of water in one watering but to divide that amount into three different days during the week, and preferably in the early morning so that it has time to in the soil before the soil gets too hot.
Also, when you go to the flower beds, they don’t need as much water usually, so keep in mind that you’ll want to put different times in different stations to keep your lawn healthy, and that will really conserve your resources.
This is a quick an easy way to make sure your grass stays healthy. This also may vary based on the type of grass you have, and the seasons. Not all states are created equal when it comes to sod and climate. Be sure you know exactly whats recommended for your grass type.
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