People seem to start avoiding extra expenses like vacations, hobbies and sadly, even lawn care, due to economic crisis. It is common to hold back household and outdoor projects due to budgeting. Also, the right care for landscape is now being forgotten by people just to save money. But these aren’t the right solutions to the problem, in fact, it would increase it. The landscape will start to look ugly and unhealthy in which the needed money to make repairs would only increase and so is the work needed. But there is a chance for you to have the best lawn in the neighborhood while still saving so much money. This is if you have the right knowledge and you use your resources right.

Right Lawn Habits to Save Money:

• Mow your grass not lower than 2-1/2 inches to as high as 3-1/2 inches.
• Keeps grass moist longer for less need to water
• Not as much drag on blades so less gas usage
• No risk in undercutting and letting sun damage grass roots which will cost a lot of time and money to repair
• Smaller mulch pieces for quick decomposing and helps with fertilizing the uncut grass
• Keep animals off of lawns and garden areas
• Saves hassle of having brown spots all around the yard from animal urine which is hard to repair due to the fact it kills the grass roots in that area.
• No plants and flowers getting trampled requiring you to re-buy and re-plant to keep garden looking good.
• Catch weed, insect, and fungus problems early
• Saves from spreading so minimizing repairing costs
• Will not have to keep repairing/fertilizing the same area every few weeks due to killing the problem at its early stages.
• Aerating your lawn
• Only done periodically (every few years) this can loosen up the soil and allow nutrients to flow through the roots easier
• Helps keep fertilizers in the roots where it is needed instead of running off due to difficulty in sinking in
• Don’t leave objects sitting on grass for long periods of time ex. trailers, pots, hoses
• Seemingly small tip but can prevent grass dying for “being lazy” and not putting away your equipment
• Keeps lawn better managed and organized looking

Right Lawn Products to Save Money:

• Use high quality fertilizers
• May be more expensive, but you will need to use it less often for the results you want
• Mix good fertilizer with less expensive one
• Get more volume and still a good amount of quality for less money than going all high quality
• Share equipment with neighbors
• Might get aggravating but this will save the renting and purchasing cost of a lot of needed equipment
• One day you will need something you don’t want to purchase so this will save all that unneeded hassle.
• Rent instead of buy
• Most major money draining equipment will not be needed for more than a specified project you have set out so renting saves a lot of money
• No maintenance on the equipment
• No need for storage places for equipment
• Do not hire companies for landscaping jobs
• Companies can be very expensive charging over $15 an hour
• There are so many young adults around the neighborhood looking for part time jobs that will work as hard for a lot less cost
• Young adults don’t have long term contracts and are a lot more convenient for spur of the moment jobs
• Example: vacation grass cutting, general landscaping, weekend project help