Maintain Your Lawn With Better Lawn Mowing Tips

One of the better lawn mowing tips, is to mow the lawn quite often during the spring and less often in the hot summer. Mowing your lawn every four to seven days during spring time, will help to maintain a healthy lawn.

In the summer when it’s the hottest, cutting the lawn to a higher level, helps to build a deeper root system, support future healthy growth and avoid dead patches on your lawn.

While mowing your lawn, do not cut more than about 1/3 of the leaf blades on the grass. If you do, then this can cause injury and the leaves are likely to become brown. Similarly, mow your lawn at a height of about 2.5 to 3 inches.

Bent grass should be cut anywhere between 1 to 1.5 inches. Cutting the grass at these heights exposes newly germinated weed seeds and also encourages other weeds like dandelions that grow upright, making them easier to cut off.

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Maintaining Indoor Plants With Water Management

One simple water management method, is placing plastic bags over your plants. You may have seen plants in pots in a garden store covered in a plastic bag and you may thought, this was rather odd.

Many gardeners do not realize that plants can survive, even if you seal them in a bag or a container. Sealing plants in a bag or a container will hold all the moisture and humidity a plant needs. Indoor house plants will thrive in this type of environment, but only for a short time, until the moisture runs out.

You will see that the humidity will grow on the inside of the bags, and this will keep your indoor plants moist and fresh until you return.

If your indoor house plants are rather large, then simply wrap the pots or containers with clear plastic bags. You can secure the plastic around the base of the stems with twine, string or use zip loc bags.

This plastic bag method is really not as effective as enclosing the entire plant, but this will keep your indoor potted plants from drying out for around a week or so.

If you are planning to take a longer vacation, then do not use the plastic bag method.

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Travel Paths For Migratory Birds

It is important to understand that most major migratory birds will not nest near your home or enter your yard.

These birds have specific destinations and travel in large flocks, so unless you live in a rural area, you probably will not see birds like the emperor goose or harlequin duck come into your backyard.

Their final destination is the Aleutian Islands. These islands are often covered in fog for most of the year. Bird watchers know these birds arrive in late spring and early summer, so this is the best time to travel to the islands, to see these exotic birds.

Migratory birds also visit the Everglades each year. This is one of the most popular places to watch birds, and birds like the purple gallinule, the snail kite and sea sparrow arrive in the Everglades annually.

There are plenty of nature walks and observation tours to watch these birds up close, with more than 350 different migratory birds arrive in the Everglades.

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