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Gardening With Children, The Do’s and Don’ts

Gardening with children - swinging kids around in garden playing having fun, sunshine and warm weather

 The Summer season is right around the corner. You maybe considering gardening with children well in a few weeks, the trees will be in full leaf, butterflies will be flying overhead and you’ll smell the freshly cut grass.

Now would be the perfect time to start working on your garden and introduce your children to the importance of gardening. Firstly always supervise your children when they are in the garden. Your garden is prone to all kinds of dangerous hazards and the last thing we would want is your child injured.

What Not To Do

  • It’s essential that when you’re gardening with children you never, ever leave your children unoccupied in your garden. Due to the number of dangerous tools and hazardous chemicals that are around. We would recommend that you isolate sharp tools and harmful chemicals from your children. Keeping them high up out of reach of children in your shed garage.
  • We would ideally advise you to avoid using power tools altogether when your children are in the garden. If it is absolutely essential then you’ll need to invest in a circuit breaker and have someone nearby keeping an eye out for danger. 

Gardening With Children – What To Do

  • It’s very important when gardening with children to give them their own space. A little plot of land in your garden that they can call their own. Where everything planted is theirs to look after and watch grows over the coming weeks and months.
  • Carefully teach your children how to plant seeds correctly, always keeping a close watch on them. Making sure that they do not swallow the seed.
  • Educate your young children on bees and other insects that could potentially sting them and how the can avoid being stung.

 

 

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Should I Water My Lawn and How Often?

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The past weekend we experienced was the perfect weather for gardening and the best time for you to mow and water your lawn.

The watering of lawns is a controversial subject within the gardening community. Each gardener will have their owned prefered techniques and methods when it comes to watering their lawn.

Some will say you shouldn’t water your lawn and others say you should. So who do you believe?

The Case For Not Watering Your Garden

Watering your lawn isn’t required. Researchers have shown that it isn’t a necessity to water your lawn. The grass is different from any other type of plant and will enter a dormant state when there is no moisture. The plant will resume growth when water becomes available.

There are no 2 lawns alike, all have varying properties and different needs. Most lawns here in the UK will survive through long periods without water. Perhaps up to months. The lawn may start to lose its colour but usually, the lawn will not be affecting.

Our advice would be to keep your eye open for any drastic change in your lawn. If your lawn is looking a little worse for ware then we would suggest you speak to a professional gardener.

The Case For Watering Your Lawn

There are plenty of reasons why you should water your lawn. If you like to keep a good surface area for playing games or for young children to play then we would advise watering your lawn regularly.

We would always advise you to water your lawn in the morning and never at night. If you do not have time to water your lawn in the mornings when we would advise you to invest in a sprinkler system.

Of course, sometime it may not be beneficial to water your lawn. In cases of a drought, or reservoirs are not being replenished, then it may do more harm than good.

How Often Should You Water Your Lawn?

We would always recommend watering your lawn when it tells you too. You should not water your lawn according to some online plan. There are various factors you need to take into account.

Your soil type, grass type, exposure to the sun and winds are just a few varying factors to take into account. Some lawns will need to be watered once per week and other can go a whole month before watering. There is not one rule for everyone.

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Our Top Summer Season Gardening Tips

Summer Season Gardening Tips

Can you believe we have had the hottest early May Bank Holiday since records began? With temperatures creeping into the low 30’s here in the Midlands, it has been a wonderful weekend for gardening. So while the hot weather is still here we may as well run down our summer season gardening tips.

Summer Season Gardening Tips

Be Water Wise

With temperatures reaching 30°C over the bank holiday weekend it’s essential that you be water wise! Your soil beds are going to become dry. Help your soil bed retain water by watering them early in the morning for optimum results. This will help minimize the effects of evaporation.

Make Time to Mow

There’s no sweeter sound of the summer season than the sound of a buzzing lawnmower. When you hear this sound early on a Saturday morning you know that it is time to start mowing your lawn. Our advice, mow your lawn little and often instead of attacking your 2 feet high grass blades at once. You can find out more about how to mow the perfect lawn here.

However, we would always advise once you have finished mowing your lawn spread your grass clippings across your compost heap in shallow layers. If you do this with a huge mound you run the risk of turning the grass clippings limy and you will spoil the compost underneath.

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Refresh Yourself

You need to make sure that when you are gardening in the heat you have regular breaks. Every 20-minutes to half an hour it is essential that find yourself some shade and have a drink of water.  

We would also recommend that you apply sunscreen to your skin, to prevent burning and heat stroke. After you have had a short break you can get stuck back in.

Lawn Wear & Tear

Animal and Pet Repair Lawn Seed

Over the next few months, your lawn will be host to family, friends and the dog. So you may find that some parts of the garden grass will start to look a little worst for wear. Especially if you are a dog owner.

dogs tend to follow the same pattern when they are in the garden so you’ll find that certain areas of your lawn will start to wear thin and start to become discoloured.

We would advise that you invest in our Animal and Pet Repair Lawn Seed. This will help to quickly renovate patches damaged by your beloved dogs.

Weed Control 

Weeds are always a problem in the garden, taking vital nutrients and water away from your lawn. It’s time to get in control of them. We would advise that before you get to work with the knife and weed killer you carefully research the type of weeds that you are invading your lawn.

For weeds that are growing in your lawn, we would recommend that you use Vitax Green Up Lawn Feed & Moss Weed Killer. 

This type of product helps to control the weeds within your lawn while also feeding the lawn with vital nutrients. This product should be applied to your lawn from April to September. So now would be a perfect time. Plus you can get 5% off your first order using promotional code FIRSTORDER5% at the checkout.

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Keep Off The Frozen Lawn!

Frozen Lawn

With the Beast From The East currently sweeping through the United Kingdom, the Lawn Seeds team would advise you not to step out onto your frozen lawn.

Frozen Lawn? Steer Clear

A frozen lawn is nothing to worry about, you can’t really prevent a frost. Unfortunately, you will have to sit and wait till your lawn has thawed out. However, walking on your lawn when it is frozen over can cause a great deal of harm. This can cause the frozen grass blades to break, resulting in a damaged lawn. Over time your lawn will recover but it may not fully heal until the following spring.

When a heavy object is applied to the frozen grass blades the water will expand and slice through the grass. This will cause a great deal of cellular damage. The damage caused isn’t permanent, however, it is beneficial that you notify friends, family and the postal service to stay clear of your lawn. Especially if it is the focal point of your garden.