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Three Lawn Care Tools Every Homeowner Should Have

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As a homeowner, keeping your property looking neat and tidy is a necessity. Not only does a clean yard look better, but most municipalities have rules and regulations requiring property owners to keep their land in order. Many individuals love gardening and lawn care, while to others, it’s nothing but a chore. Regardless of what category you fall into, below are three lawn care tools that every homeowner should have in his or her arsenal. With a riding mower, a leaf mulcher, and a lawn edger, you can be sure that your lawn and yard will always look great with minimal time and effort.

A Riding Mower

A riding mower isn’t an absolute necessity, but mowing the lawn is much easier when you can guide a riding mower around your yard without even breaking a sweat. However, for homeowners with large properties, a riding lawnmower is a must-have. With vast areas of grass to cut, it would take hours to get the job done with a traditional mower. Even small yards can benefit from a riding mower because of the time they save. No matter how big or small your yard may be, consider investing in a riding mower. It will save you a considerable amount of time and energy and will keep your yard looking fresh and well-trimmed.

A Leaf Mulcher

A vacuum leaf mulcher is an invaluable tool to have at any time of the year. Whether you’re using it to clear your yard of leaves in the fall or to pick up weed seeds as you cut the grass in the summer, a leaf mulcher that attaches to your riding mower is the ultimate lawn accessory. The powerful vacuum on this versatile tool will easily collect any leaves in your path as you tow the easy-to-attach mulcher system behind your riding mower. Plus, the leading models of these mulchers fold flat for easy storage, so when you’re finished tending to the lawn, the mulcher won’t take up too much valuable shed or garage space.

A Lawn Edger

Once your grass is cut and the leaves on your property have been vacuumed up or mulched, a lawn edger is the ideal tool to put the finishing touch on your picturesque property. Your sidewalks, curbs, and walkways will look spectacular once you’ve been through the area with an edger. A proper edging complements the appearance of a lush, green, clean lawn.

While there are certainly other lawn care tools that can prove to be beneficial, a riding mower, a leaf mulcher, and a lawn edger are three of the most important to have at your disposal.

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Jillian Johnson is a professional content marketing writer and blogger with a particular interest in writing about home and garden. To read more writing by Jillian, follow her @MissWritey.





Importance of Caring for Your Garden

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Homes with gardens are more attractive and pleasing to the eye. They can make a house look like a home, and the flowering plants and trimmed shrubberies can easily make any home look elegant.

Gardens are an extension of the house. You can have your meals and parties outside; your children can play in it; you can even take a nap under a shade in your garden; or you can simply use the garden as a source of solace, peace, and tranquility. As an extension of your home, it should also receive proper care and maintenance. But why is a regular clean-up good for your garden, aside from making your property pretty and relaxing?

It Can Help Keep Pests Out

Without a doubt, a clean garden can help keep pests out. Pests can live just about anywhere, but their population can really flourish in dirty places. Gardens that have stagnant pools of water, mounds of debris and leaves, piles of rotting wood, tall grass, untrimmed shrubberies, etc. are more prone to pest infestation than those gardens that are clean and regularly cared for. This is because dirty gardens attract pestiferous insects such as mosquitoes, cockroaches, beetles, ants, giving the ample hiding places where they can easily feed and breed. Dirty gardens also attract rodents and reptiles that are scavenging for food. If the garden is pest infested, there’s no stopping them from invading your home.

However, if you regularly give your garden a good cleaning by trimming the bushes, pruning the trees, moving the lawn, getting rid of debris, you’re reducing the population of pests and decreasing the risk of having them inside your home.

It Can Decrease Health Risks

As mentioned earlier, dirty gardens attract pests. The more pests you have in the garden, the higher the chances that they’ll infest your property, and the higher the risk of these pests bringing sickness and diseases into your home. Pests, after all, are very notorious when it comes to spreading diseases. In fact, it was the rodents that spread the Bubonic Plague that wiped out millions of people. It’s the mosquitoes that are spreading diseases like dengue fever, malaria, and West Nile disease. Cockroaches carry viruses and bacteria that can cause food poisoning and gastrointestinal problems. Rodents like rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels, etc. can carry rhabdovirus, which causes rabies. Ticks carry viruses that cause Lyme disease, tularemia, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Feve; while fleas can cause flea tapeworm infection. There are also the ants, spiders, bees, wasps, scorpions, and other pestiferous insects to think of. If someone with weak or compromised immune system gets stung or bitten by one, he can suffer from severe allergic reactions, necessitating immediate hospitalization. Really, there are so many diseases that humans can get from pests.

If you want to avoid these diseases, then see to it that your garden is clean and neat. Make sure that the pest population is controlled, if not eliminated. If usual trapping of rodents, using repellents and simple pest control, and regular thorough cleaning of your home and garden are not enough, then it’s time to avail of the services of your local pest control company to completely get rid of them for you.

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Jennifer Dallman is a freelance writer for PreventivePestControl.com. Your garden is the most visible part of your property, and as such, it also deserves proper care and maintenance, one of which is keeping it pest-free.

 

Expert Garden maintenance tips for Winter

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The positive impression a great garden leaves on people visiting a home is something seldom equaled. Great gardens say as much about a home as the house does.


However, the fast-changing environment of a garden means gardening and maintenance go hand in hand . This is especially the case as we enter winter. The high-growth levels of a garden mean that you keep a landscape garden, landscaped you have to work on the area during the summer, while also prepare it for the colder weather. Nevertheless, it’s not as hard as it seems as you see from our basic gardening and maintenance tips to ensure your garden looks great throughout the year.

Plants

Some smart planting can make sure your garden remains bright all year round. Though, plants have certain needs and requirements, with a little know how it can be possible to keep everything in check. The simplest advice for landscape garden maintenance is to know what’s growing and how you should look after it.

Lawns require looking after and mowing is not often enough. During warm weather, grass needs water, and also needs care if you have had a specifically cold winter. Make sure to care for grass during summer, so it heads into the colder period of the year at its strongest.

Trees

Trees also need gardening and maintenance and pruning, dead wooding and keeping their shape is important, but also tough and often a danger without the right tools. Tree surgeons maybe your answer in such a scenario and help you ensure your tree stays healthy.

Decking

Decking is also something that needs to be maintained. Look into painting, or varnishing the wood and cleaning it with detergent. Even if, it’s not a plant, this is all part of good gardening. Weed the area around and clean any grime, or stains with your garden tool hire. Of course you can rent

Furniture

In a similar manner to that of decking, garden furniture can also be treated roughly by the weather. Cover them with waterproof covering, if they can’t be placed inside in the winter. Clean and look after them when the spring comes to make sure you get the most from them.

Fencing

Fencing is also something often overlooked, however requires a good check after winter to guarantee it is perfect. Replace any broken fencing and look after it, as a good, solid fence can really add aesthetically to your landscape garden.

Following these gardening maintenance tips now will warrant a healthy attractive garden come about later in the year.

Cormac Reynolds writes for Best at Hire a UK company that provides garden equipment for rent.

Enjoying the sun

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It was such a beautiful day today. Actually it was a beautiful week! It was so warm and sunny – unbelievable. I know it’s March break and quite a few people probably went south or to the Caribbean but the weather here in Toronto was almost as good as what you’d get in most vacation spots. Honest!

The weather broke records this week. Not just here in Toronto but across the country.

Today was the warmest day of all. It was 86 F! When I went into my backyard this afternoon I seriously thought about going back inside and getting the patio furniture. I mean, it’s March .. it’s way to early to be thinking about setting up the Patio furniture for all I know we could have a snow storm next week but with the kind of weather we’ve had most of the last month let alone the whole winter I think I probably could start setting up for summer.

Speaking of summer and patio furniture, I might look for some new modern outdoor furniture to accompany the patio furniture that I currently have. I’ve always wanted an outdoor couch or a true outdoor room.

Has the weather been warmer than normal in your area too? If it has, are you getting outside to enjoy it?

Autumn maintenance in the garden

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My husband and I have spent part of the last two weekends working in our front and backyard gardens preparing them for the long winter ahead. Fall is here and it’s getting cooler every day. I hate to say it, but I suppose it won’t be all that long before we have our first snow – maybe a month if we’re lucky. Less if we’re not.

We’ve been busy putting away everything from our patio furniture to solar lights and our garden ornaments. I’ve also been tidying up the garden beds, clearing away the dead plants, cutting off dead plant branches and trimming back some of the over growth on some of the really big plants.

One of the things that I must do as part of my garden maintenance is to take care of my gardening tools. I usually clean my pruners and other tools and then oil my cutting tools. I like to keep them in good shape, especially going into the winter when they’re going to be sitting for a while unused.

Do you garden? If you do, do you spend time each Autumn tidying up your garden preparing it for winter just as I’ve been doing these last two weeks?

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