Lawn maintenance techniques, how to care for your lawn.

Why Have a Lawn?
A lawn is the canvas on which you can draw the garden you dream of. In winter it will provide colour and life when other plants are scarce. In summer it will pull together and frame all the features and colours in your garden.

A lawn is also extremely useful! It's great for walking on, ideal for playing games on and lovely for just sitting on. It's soft, good looking and provides a forgiving surface when kids and adults trip over.

Modern grasses are very forgiving of neglect and severe weather. With very little lawn care and maintenance, they can be improved greatly. Let GardenAction show you how to make the most of the lawn in your garden.

HOW TO USE THIS ARTICLE

This article explains all about lawn care and maintenance, and some of it may not be relevant to you at this point in time. If this is the case, please do use the 'Quick Index' towards the top left of each page.

Simply click on a topic in the list and you will be re-directed to your chosen subject. The 'Quick Index' appears on each page so it's easy to skip around subjects.

Remember that these pages on lawn care automatically adjust all dates (sowing, planting harvesting etc.) to be correct for the area where you live. But only if you record your home town with us. If you haven't done this yet, do it now by clicking here. It will only take a minute and once done it never need be done again!

Below is a complete list of links to the topics covered by these lawn pages. Click on any of them to get detailed information or simply press the "NEXT PAGE" link at the bottom of all the lawn pages to read the articles from beginning to end.

BASIC LAWN CARE TOOLS

LAWNMOWER TYPES IN DETAIL

LAWN CARE CALENDAR

THE BASICS OF LAYING A NEW LAWN

SEED or TURF (SOD) or SPRIGS?

PREPARING THE SITE FOR A NEW LAWN

LEVEL THE SITE

DRAINAGE AND NEW LAWNS

SELECTING AND SOWING GRASS SEED