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The first question I would ask is "are you interested in taking care of your landscaping, or do you want to pay someone to do it?
If you want to do it yourself, get yourself a good self propelled lawnmower from Sears or a Big box store. Talk to the associates there for advice. Fertilizing is easy. You need a decent scotts broadcast spreader and fertilize 4 times a year (which is what I do). It would also be a good idea to put down lyme (typically clay soils have low pH levels and lyme will "sweeten" them up encouraging good growth.)
If you don't, look at scotts service, chemlawn, or like Sunny said, there's kids prob in your neighborhood who would do it for some cash....
I just recently purchased my first new home. Its a corner lot on 1/3 of an acre. I have alot of lawn. I am from Brooklyn I have never cut the grass in my life and I also do not know what ineed to do concerning fertilizer and seeds. If any one has any advice on lawn care please let me know.
I just had a house built in Cornelius. I don't want any grass in the small area that is considered as my yard (probably 15 feet between houses). My wife and I are coming up from Florida this weekend to lay cedar chips to disable grass from growing. Of course we will have bushes and landscaping that will be very low maintenance. But, to answer your question, go to Lowes or Home Depot and they will advise you on the fertilizers and weed eating spreads that will make your lawn healthy and beautiful. Lawns can be fun, but my wife and I are away a couple of months every year and are unable to keep up a lawn.
Have people begun converting lawns into water-wise plants? That's very popular in Utah but I don't know if there are water-wise plants for the Carolinas? Seems like native plants would be the ones that like the frequent rains that used to be. This is something I've thought about a lot as I will be moving there sometime later this year.
Yes...there are many! We've had quite a climate change over the past 20 years as far as our winters...they aren't nearly as cold as they once were.
Determine what type of lawn you have (probably fescue) then check out the maintenance calendar on the NC State Turf Website. They are the turf gurus and their is a plethora of valuable info on the site. Good Luck!
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