Trimmers are your best line of defense against grass, weeds, and brush. Made for those who appreciate a well-groomed lawn, trimmers are available in a wide range of models with variations in features such as straight shaft, loop handle configuration, translucent fuel tanks, easy-to-access air filters and purge pump primers to help prevent.
Whether you’re a homeowner or landscaping professional, there’s a trimmer to meet your needs. There are a lot of landscaping possibilities when touching up the yard and removing tough brush. A lot of people use trimmers for yardwork in the spring and summer seasons. Fall, however, is a great time to use your trimmer to get your yard in tiptop shape for the next year.
Here’s how to use your trimmer for fall cleanup.
Keep grass short.
Trimmers are a useful tool for maintaining grass at the recommended height. The recommendation is to remove no more than 1/3 of height of your grass. This helps control weed growth, preventing the sunlight that weeds need from reaching them. The lower height provides much less shelter for lawn fungus, insects, and other pests and diseases during the winter. Additionally, grass struggles to recover when you cut off more than a third of its height in a single mowing.
Get rid of weeds.
Brief rain showers and persistent warm weather play a large role in the amount of grass you see growing. Sometimes, that growing grass is accompanied by weeds. Weeds usually indicate that your lawn is suffering from low nutrient levels.
If you couldn’t prevent weeds from sprouting before summer started, eliminating them while they’re actively growing in the fall is the next best thing.
Be mindful if you want to use a string trimmer to get rid of weeds. If the weeds on your lawn have already flowered and gone to seed, knocking the seed heads off the stem risks scattering the seeds across your lawn. Additionally, if the weeds are biennials or perennials, trimming the flowers and stems will leave the roots intact, meaning the weeds will come back.
Digging weeds out of your lawn is the best solution to this problem. Fertilizer and frequent mowing at a high cutting height are also ideal. Using good quality seeds is another way to prevent the growth of weeds.
Work in tight spaces.
If you’re missing patches of grass with your lawn mower due to fences and other landscaping obstacles, consider investing in a line trimmer. A line trimmer will help you clip grass in hard-to-reach areas, so you’re not left with unsightly patches.
There’s nothing more satisfying than the sound of a whirring trimmer line and the smell of freshly cut grass. Continue using your trimmer for yard maintenance this fall and your lawn will thank you.
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