| The easiest way to draw positive attention to | | | | and garden stores and comes in rolls or squares. |
| your home is toconcentrate on making the lawn | | | | After you lay it across your yard, all that's left to |
| and garden look as nice aspossible. Of course it | | | | do is waterit well and you'll immediately have a |
| helps to have a nice looking home ingeneral by | | | | lawn, with roots takinghold within two weeks. |
| having a clean driveway and sidewalks, and fresh | | | | 4. Make it green. Green grass looks much better |
| painton your house and trim. Most of what you | | | | than browngrass. There are two good ways to |
| can do, though, to makeyour home look better is | | | | make your lawn greener. Oneworks in just hours, |
| related more to the lawn. | | | | where the other can take a couple days. |
| Luckily it is rather easy to make your lawn look | | | | The quickest way is to use dishwashing soap such |
| beautiful. Ifyou are starting fresh from dirt, it can | | | | as Dawn of |
| take some substantialtime, however. The process | | | | Palmolive. Only soap used for hand washing dishes |
| can be sped up by installing readymade lawns and | | | | should beused. After mixing a teaspoon of the |
| by using flowers that have already bloomed. | | | | soap with a gallon ofwater, put it in a feeder |
| Thefollowing steps will help to quickly create curb | | | | spray attachment on our hose and spraythe lawn |
| appeal at yourhome. | | | | until the gallon is gone. If it is legal in your areato |
| 1. Clean up. Just cleaning up your yard can make a | | | | do so, you can simply run your washing machine |
| hugedifference. It may seem obvious, but make | | | | hose outside. |
| sure you don't haveold rusty junk laying around | | | | Every time you do the laundry your lawn will get |
| the yard, unless it is being usedstylistically in a | | | | greener, whilekilling unwanted insects at the same |
| garden. Picking up garbage also makes helps alot. | | | | time. |
| 2. Trim up. Cutting the grass and edging the | | | | The other option is simply to soak the lawn with |
| borders with a weedtrimmer will be very | | | | water. Let ahose or sprinklers run for hours until |
| noticeable. You should take care to get ridof all | | | | 2-3 inches of water havebeen applied to the lawn. |
| weeds, including ones by the walls of your home | | | | It will become green rather quickly,often within a |
| and aroundthe mailbox post.. You should edge | | | | day. |
| around the sidewalks,driveway, and curb as well | | | | 5. Don't forget flowers in you landscaping plans. |
| to make sure nothing is overgrowinginto those | | | | Adding some color in your yard byplanting flowers |
| areas. The cleanliness of a short lawn and | | | | will raise the curb appeal of your home. |
| straightlines from edging will look very nice. | | | | Buyingcolorful plants that have already started |
| 3. Build a Lawn. If your just moving in and the lot | | | | blooming willimmediately make a difference. They |
| is stilldirt, or if there is just not much grass on | | | | can either be planted inpots or in the ground. Use |
| your lot, adding somestarter sod can make a big | | | | your imagination and choose flowersthat bloom in |
| difference very quickly. Sod can bebought at lawn | | | | colors that look good with your home. |