Why You Should Always Meet With A Lawn Expert Before Choosing Your Variety Of Grass
Posted on: 1 March 2021
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There are dozens of types of lawn available on the market, and you can choose to plant them as seeds all the way through to fully grown turf ready to be laid down. With so many options, it is easy for the uninitiated to go out and choose a lawn that looks great but is not entirely suitable for your purposes. But how can you know what is and isn't appropriate for your home or business? The best way is to talk to a lawn expert and get their opinion to help narrow down the type s of lawn you should be selecting from. Here are some pieces of advice they will likely give you.
Environmental Concerns
The first and most prominent talking point the turf experts at any garden store will talk to you about is the type of environment each grass needs to grow in. This is determined by a couple of things, but mainly, it comes down to a couple of big points: the amount of shade in your garden and the rockiness of the soil beneath the surface. These can be the two big sticking points that determine whether your grass lives or dies, so it is important to know how often your lawn is in shade (and how much of it is in shade) as well as what the conditions are like under the surface.
Blade
The blade or the leaf is the actual part of the grass that you see above ground, and this is what makes up the majority of your gardens look, so you need to decide on a type early on. Some types of lawn have very thin blades of grass, which makes them very soft and easy to walk on but often makes the grass far more delicate. If you go for a thicker blade of grass like you might see in the park, then they can generally last very easily under your pets or young children running around on them.
Effort
Experts in lawns know that most people do not want to spend a lot of time taking care of their lawns, they just want to enjoy them. As such, they cultivate most of their types of lawn to be very low effort to take care of. Whether that be the need to water their lawn or to mow them, you should specify whether you have the time to do these tasks and how often would be the maximum amount of time you could spend on this. That will help further narrow your field of choices to a more manageable couple of options.