To keep your grass lush, green, and resilient throughout the growing season, professional turf managers warn against three common neighborhood mistakes:
According to turf management experts at The Spruce, cutting your grass below two inches is one of the single biggest mistakes homeowners make. Scalping your turf forces the plant to focus all of its biological energy on rebuilding blades rather than deep root expansion, leaving it highly susceptible to summer droughts, structural thinning, and aggressive weed invasions.
Many homeowners meticulously bag their grass clippings to keep the yard looking "neat." However, data from Family Handyman proves that grasscycling—leaving clips on the lawn to biodegrade—acts as a continuous, free, natural fertilizer treatment. Because blades are roughly 80 to 90 percent water, they break down fast and pump nitrogen and critical microorganisms back into the native topsoil.
Shallow, daily watering cycles promote weak, near-surface roots that dry out instantly under real summer heat. Lawn specialists recommend deep, infrequent watering schedules (roughly one inch of water once or twice a week, ideally in the early morning) to train roots to dive deep into the soil structure for long-term health.
Using a dull mower blade rips and tears the grass instead of slicing it cleanly. Ripped tips turn a distinct, ugly brown color across your yard and open up wounds on the grass plant, making it incredibly easy for fungal diseases and lawn pests to invade and destroy your hard work.
Lawn pros warn that feeding your lawn during hot, dry summer spells is a recipe for disaster. Applying heavy nitrogen fertilizer when the grass is already stressed by high temperatures can physically burn the turf roots and trigger an explosive wave of weed growth that chokes out your weakened grass.
Contrary to what their name might suggest, basketball, tennis and running shoes are in no way confined to courts and tracks these days. Athletic footwear, less formally known as sneakers, can be found anywhere from boardrooms to fashion runways and companies such as Nike and Adidas are making billions feeding the sneaker frenzy.
With annual footwear sales of $22.3 billion, Nike is still number 1 in the global sneakers market. Having started as an enterprise licensing Japanese running shoes for the American market, Nike quickly developed a name of its own in the 1970s when some of the company’s most iconic silhouettes were introduced.
