6 Easy Steps to a Healthy Lawn

Almost every establishment in the country has at least a patch of lawn that needs to be lovingly tended to ensure that it doesn’t disappoint.

1. Healthy soil
Good soil is the foundation of a healthy lawn. To grow well, your lawn needs soil with good texture, some key nutrients, and the right pH, or acidity/alkalinity balance.
Start by checking the texture of your soil to see whether it’s heavy with clay, light and sandy, or somewhere in between. Lawns grow best in “loamy” soils that have a mix of clay, silt, and sand.

Water-wise gardening

As time goes on and our climate changes, perhaps becoming warmer, conservation of water is becoming
more and more important.

Our country has large areas that are arid or semi-arid and even in areas where there is a reasonable rainfall, we still have water shortages over many months and the threat of water restrictions is ever present.
For centuries, South Africans have emulated gardening styles of England, Europe and elsewhere. No matter how appealing an Englishstyle garden may be, the South African climate does not allow for large expanses of green lawn and extensive herbaceous
borders of water guzzling annuals and perennials bred for cooler climates. It is only quite recently that gardeners have looked at
water-wise and indigenous planting, which will thrive without too much extra help, as a more sensible choice.