Protecting Your Grass
We’ve had a beautiful Fall season in Missouri and the last of the leaves are falling from the trees. Do you ever wonder if you really need to rake up all of those leaves? Well here’s a few tips to help protect your lawn for the Spring.
If you have just enough leaves on your lawn to where you can still see the grass, you can use a mulching lawn mower to just work the leaves right into your lawn. One exception to this is if you had a late summer seeding in your yard. In that case, you will need to carefully rake up all of the leaves and remove them. This is especially important so that you can continue to water the seedling grass.
If you have so many leaves in your yard that you cannot see the grass in most places, you will want to rake up the leaves. This many leaves will damage grass if mulched into the lawn. You may consider hiring a lawn service that has machines that pick up the leaves, unless you just want to enjoy these last few beautiful days of fall and don’t mind a little yard work.
If you want to put those leaves to good use, you can rake them into piles and use the mulching feature on a leaf blower which sucks up the leaves and mulches them at the same time. Once you have collected your mulched leaves, spread them in and around the plants in your flower beds.