You’ve sprinkled your lawn with fertilizer and watered to ensure it dissolves. Now you’re wondering for long will you wait to see a lush of green color in your garden. So, how long does it take for granular fertilizer to work? Generally, granular fertilizers take 1 to 2 weeks to work after application. However, it …
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Using the right kind of fertilizer gives your lawn a lush green color that is enviable in your neighborhood. There are different kinds of fertilizers in the market and you may want to give a try to 10-10-10 all-purpose fertilizer. So, is 10-10-10 fertilizer good for lawns? 10-10-10 fertilizer is best for your lawn since …
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Fertilizing your lawn with best fertilizer ratio has a greater influence on the color and ability to recover from stress. It also helps the lawn to withstand drought, pest, diseases and weeds inversion. So, what is the best lawn fertilizer ratio? When determining the best fertilizer percentage for your lawn, there are various feature to …
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It’s been a while since you last fertilized your lawn. You visit your storage shed and realize there is several bags of fertilizer stored a couple of years ago. Now you are wondering, does lawn fertilizer go bad? Granular fertilizer will last for many years or indefinitely as long as it is stored well and …
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It is not easy to imagine that gasoline can go bad, but the truth is, gas disintegrates overtime and becomes unsuitable to use in a machinery including lawn mowers. Bad gas can damage your lawn mower engine or result to a reduced performance. So, can old gas cause a lawn mower not to start? Yes, …
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When closed, choke helps provide a richer fuel-air mixture to the engine when starting it up cold for the first time in a while. Once the engine is running, choke should be left fully open and may not need to be closed when starting warm. If a lawn mower will not run unless choked, it …
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After a long winter storage it is quite common for a lawn mower battery to become flat. This should not be a great deal if you can access a car battery. You can safely jumpstart a riding lawn mower battery with your car battery. Let’s look at how it’s done the right way. Before you …
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A lawn mower needs engine oil to run smoothly. Like any other combustion engine, oil is essential in lubricating and cooling the constantly moving parts. However, you need to use the right kind of oil for your engine type. So, can you use 10W30 in a lawn mower? Yes, you can use 10W30 oil in …
One of the best way of controlling crabgrass is to apply a pre-emergent herbicide which kills the weed at early stage of germination. Crabgrass produces thousands of seeds before the plant is killed by frost. The seeds remains dormant during the cold season and germinates when the weather warms up. So, when does crabgrass germinate? …
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Crabgrass is a warm season annual plant that germinates, thrives and dies all in the same season. However, it remains to be one of the difficult weed to control in many lawns. This is mainly due to improper timing when applying a crabgrass killer. So, when does crabgrass die? Crabgrass dies in fall as soon …
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