Early spring gives us mild temperatures, which means snow will start melting and you will need to prepare the lawn for the upcoming summer. Sections of your grass where there’s more sunlight during the day will dry faster than the one in shaded areas. Snow insulates the ground but can cause problems when snow or ice are slow to disappear when spring arrives.
The grass usually take more time to be healthy and green when it’s in shaded areas, so this is why your will want to give it particular attention.
Is there a section of your lawn that snow melts slower? This post will show you how to help the grass in shaded areas before deploying the first step of fertilizer.
- Pick up your finest shovel
- Target all suspected zones
- Shovel the snow or ice from shaded areas to sections with full sunshine
What you are doing by removing the snow is that you are giving oxygen to your grass by taking the ice or snow off. They usually are compacted by the melting snow resulting from mild temperatures. Fresh air should have a direct contact with the grass as often as possible.
A large amount of snow insulates the ground when it’s cold but when the snow melts, it brings a lot of water in the ground and with temperatures between -5°C to 5°C, the grass will freeze and unfreeze a lot of time, which doesn’t help the grass. In those particular areas, the sun won’t help during the day since they are shady.
Shovelling your yard might have your neighbours make fun of you but you will definitely see the greenish color of your grass lot faster.
At the end, you should see something like this. You are now ready prepare the upcoming season and by seeding grass in your shaded areas.
Ladies and gentlemen, do not store your shovels yet, they might be handy!