Summer time in the Central Texas Area can be extreme on your lawn! We often refer to July and August as Summer's HOTTEST as we see frequent triple temperature digits in days!
Just look at the forecast this week!
The typical homeowner struggles to maintain their lawn both financially and time consuming. The reality is Central Texas Summers are tough on your lawn!
Here are 3 Tips on How to Maintain Your Lawn During The Summer that should help keep your lawn green:
1. Problem-Soil - Most new developments and new construction in the Austin area have minimal soil between the turf and limestone. This causes high heat stress in the summer and big time runoff during rain/irrigation times. Lack of nutrients/nitrogen/ potassium that fertilizers provide.
Solution – Add Texas Turf Mix/Top Dressing to get the roots happy and build your lawn up to allow your grass to get comfortable.
2. Irrigation/Sprinklers Issues - Almost all the troubled lawns have lackluster results without irrigation. Dried out lawn, dusty, compacted soil and small shrubs/trees.
Solution - Irrigate! Get your lawn nice and green. There’s a night and day difference in irrigated landscapes vs. non-irrigated. Healthier lawn result and faster growing trees the neighbors will envy.
3. Regular Lawn Maintenance Issues - Seeing a well maintained lawn means fewer weeds, using lightweight commercial mulching mowers allowing potash to enter the soil. This also pertains to flowerbeds and shrubs. At least turning over the flowerbeds once and a month along with a good trim and shape on those shrubs.
Solution – Set up a total lawn care package "If you don’t have time to do it yourself"