Save Time and Money — and Still Have a Great Lawn

MILWAUKEE, March 28 /PRNewswire/ — Can you have a nice-looking yard without investing hours of labor each week and emptying your wallet?


You bet, according to yard care expert, Trey Rogers, Ph.D., also known as the Briggs & Stratton “Yard Doctor.” “Some people love to spend countless hours in their yards making them the focal point of their neighborhoods, and that’s great. But if you’re faced with a time crunch — and don’t have a lot of money to spend — the good news is that you still can have a nice yard.”


Rogers should know. He has spent more than 25 years as a turf grass scientist, helping everyone from golf course groundskeepers to his suburban neighbors create healthy, thick grass. He’s even helped grow Olympic playing fields. As Briggs & Stratton Corporation’s Yard Doctor, he and other yard, garden and outdoor equipment experts will answer consumers’ questions as a free service during the entire month of May via email at http://www.yardsmarts.com/ (or at the tollfree hotline, 1-866-YARDTIPS; 1-866-927-3847).

  Here are the Yard Doctor’s top tips to save time and money on yard care:

— Maintain your equipment. Prepare your equipment for the growing season
to avoid problems that could leave you without your mower and with a
costly repair bill in mid-summer. Tune up your mower once a year and
use a fuel preservative to keep gas fresh so your mower will start
easily.
— Mow correctly. This will help prevent weeds, disease and pests in
your lawn, eliminating the need to spend time and money treating
problems. Only cut one-third the length of the grass height in any
single mowing to help the grass thrive, setting deep roots. Never
“scalp” your lawn thinking you will have to mow less often — it
damages the grass.
— Follow a simple plan. Create a simple protocol for mowing to
streamline the process and avoid delays. Fuel your mower the night
before you mow. First thing in the morning, pick up toys, tree
branches and debris from the lawn. As soon as the dew dries off, you
can mow without time-wasting interruptions.
— Create instant results. Make your yard look great for a special
weekend by investing your time and money in easy projects that give you
instant results. Add fresh wood chip mulch to flower beds and place
inexpensive clay pots of colorful flowers at your front door and on
your patio or deck. Use sod to patch bare spots in your lawn.
— Use a mulching mower. A mulching mower’s blade cuts the grass into
fine clippings that are returned to the soil as a nitrogen-rich
fertilizer. You can fertilize less often, saving time and money.


For more yard care advice, visit the Yard Doctor at http://www.yarddoctor.com/ . The Yard Doctor is part of the Briggs & Stratton Yard Smarts program, created to help homeowners achieve the yard they really want to have by providing knowledge and inspiration on lawn and yard care.


Briggs & Stratton Corporation is the largest manufacturer of gasoline engines for yard care equipment and through its wholly owned subsidiary, Briggs & Stratton Power Products Group LLC, is the largest producer of generators and pressure washers in North America. The company tagline, “The Power Within,” is symbolic of its commitment to provide power for all applications. Through Yard Smarts programs, Briggs & Stratton helps consumers tap their own “power within” to achieve the yard they’ve always wanted.