Tips To Maintain Your Lawn Always Beautiful - Briggs & Stratton TRAPP 42L13G60x8A Manual De Instrucciones

Tips to maintain your lawn always beautiful

1- Pick up all kinds of objects from the lawn, such as:
stones, roots, pieces of wood, glass or bricks. These
objects, besides damaging your lawn mower and
making your work difficult, may also cause serious
accidents, when thrown in high speed by the cutting
blade.
2- Try to eradicate all noxious weeds before mowing the
lawn, manually or with chemical products under
technical guidance. Avoid cutting them with the lawn
mower. Most of these weeds regenerate easily and its
superficial cut will not eliminate them. In some cases,
mainly in their flowering time, this procedure might
even cause its dissemination.
3- Try to know the species of grass you have in your lawn.
Density, colour and regeneration capacity are qualities
that vary among the several species.
So, you may know if you are taking good care of your
lawn and in the correct way. Following you will find
some characteristics of the main species of grass used in
Brazil.
Batatais
Also known as Forquilha (pitchfork) or Mato-Grosso. It is
very commonly used. Light-green, strong and slightly piling
leaves. It is resistant to drought, high traffic, noxious weeds
and diseases. It helps avoiding erosion and filtering water.
It is deal for parks, soccer fields and swimming-pool
surroundings.
São Carlos
Also know as Curitibana or wide grass. It has, smooth
pilelless leaves. Dark green colour. This grass is good for
either sunny or half-shadowed, humid or rocky grounds. It
has a good resistance to high traffic, noxious weeds,
diseases and frosts. It is ideal for public or home gardens.
St. Agostinho
Also known as English, Imperial or Coastal grass. Its origin is
the brazilian coastland. Medium-sized width and length,
smooth and pileless, light green colour. It is resistant to
drought, frosts, noxious weeds and diseases. It may be used
either in sunny or half-shadowed grounds. It is also suitable
for salty and sandy grounds.
Ideal for home gardens, country or seaside house gardens
and industrial areas.
Silky Grass
Also known as Bermudas. It is highly resistant to drought,
and is indicated for banks and rocky grounds. Rapid growth,
blueish-green leaves. Perfect for sunny places, but may be
also used in half-shadowed areas. Ideal for soccer and golf
fields, school yards, industrial areas, public squares.
Zoysia
Also known Japanese or Korean grass. Narrow and grey-
green leaves. Grows slowly. It is not too demanding for soil
fertility. Resistant to light traffic. Perfect for sunny places, but
may be also used in half-shadowed areas. Good for seaside
grounds. Ideal for home gardens, swimming-pool
surroundings and sunbath areas, and also among stones.
Italian Grass
Also known as black grass. It has fine and darkgreen leaves.
Although it is not a specific kind of grass (belonging to the
lilacea and not to the grama grass family) it is much used as
bedding in half or totally shadowed areas, and also for
flower-bed borders and declivities.
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4- A careful cut is essential.
The first cut should be done as soon as the grass is
rooted, in order to force its growth and horizontal
expansion.
After that, cut it each time it surpasses 5 to 7 cm height.
Anyway, in warmer seasons, the higher the grass is, the
stronger it will be, once that it can better keep the soil
humidity. But do not exagerate, or it will loose its
uniformity and beauty.
5- Do not cut the grass when it is too wide, avoiding gaps
and burnt aspect. On the other hand, frequent cuts tend
to weaken the nutritious reserves of the grass, being
more susceptible to noxious weeds and diseases.
6- Keep the cutting blades always sharp, avoiding the grass
to be thrashed and not cut. Blunt blade cutting favours
diseases attack, sometimes of difficult control, leaving
the grass with an irregular and brown aspect.
7- Another care that should be taken during lawn mowing
is the cutting direction, that should be alternated,
avoiding soil compactation. Soil compactation reduces
the oxygen available for the roots and hampers its
normal growth.
In some cases, it may ruin the grass. For instance, if this
time you mow the lawn in North-South direction, the
next one should be East-West direction, and so on.
8- What should be done with the straw: leave it on the
lawn or take it away?
By one way, as it decays, it renders back to the soil the
nutrients previously extracted from it.
On the other hand, gathering the straw provides more
aeration and luminosity to the soil (which are necessary
for the development of the lawn) and the temperature
and humidity are lower, thus reducing the risks of
diseases, and even improving its aspect. With TRAPP
grass catcher simplified installation system, you may
choose the best option for you.
9- Avoid mowing the lawn early in the morning, when
there is still a lot of dew on it.
Besides facilitating the appearance of diseases, it is also
for safety reasons.
10- As a final touch, you may also beautify your garden
alternating the height of the grass in different strips.
TRAPP lawn mower's easy and quick regulating system
allows you to change the cutting height without the
need of tools.
The final visual effect is the same as we usually see in
soccer fields, i.e., stripes or checkered designs in
different green tones.
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