TIMOTHY DALY: Proper Landscape Design Reduces Maintenance

What part of your landscape requires the most maintenance? Roses? How about the annual bed? Annual flowers? Wrong. The most maintenance needed is the home lawn. Consider this: It requires weekly mowing in the growing season, fertilization, liming, aeration, and over-seeding for tall fescue lawns. A beautiful lawn requires much time and effort. Unfortunately, an improper landscape design makes the task more demanding.

Eliminating corners is a first step. No lawnmower will trim an inside corner, and you must use a weed trimmer to clean up those areas. The task is more time-consuming and necessitates purchasing another piece of expensive equipment, thus increasing the difficulties of lawn care.