Spacious lawns and wide-open gardens are lovely to enjoy the summer in Birmingham or any other places of the world. With the added complexities of dryness, humidity and extremely hot atmosphere during the summer, lawns may not look like the way you desire. It needs a lot of water, nutrients and proper care. To keep your lawn green throughout the summer and later, you need to hire a lawn care contractor who will work on your lawn and garden regularly, weekly or in a monthly basis. With the advancement of technology, lawn care contractors are now using different appliances that will help to do the work easily. Following are the ways a lawn care contractor will help you in maintenance of your lawn.

In case your home is located near a road, your lawn will suffer from the nasty result of dust. Even a thin layer of dust is enough to reduce the photosynthesis process of the plants and will stop them grow properly. Other than that, who loves a dirty and unkempt lawn? So why not hire a lawn care contractor who will keep an eye on your lawn or garden regularly and will wash it when required.

Wild fire hazard areas have always been a problem for lawns. To get rid of fire hazards, a lawn maintenance contractor will advise you to use grasses like Canada blue grass, sheep fescue, wheat grass and blue gamma grass.  These grasses can be bought from local lawn care store.

Grasses those are in sunny section and those are in shady sections need different care to grow properly.  Grass in shady section need to be longer and lawn maintenance person will prune out the dense branches to let in more light.

Have you noticed sometimes that your plants and grasses in the lawns do not look enough healthy? This is because of the nutrition deficiency. Upon seeing this, a lawn maintenance person will apply organic fertilizer to attract earthworm in to your lawn and we all know about what earthworms do to the soil.

It is necessary to apply compost and fertilizers to increase the fertility of the soil and to ensure good health of the plants. Maintenance person will add a layer of compost made from horse manure, gypsum, straw and lime stone continually to promote growth of the plants and grasses.

Lawn maintenance contractors will work on a schedule to keep your free from worries. It does not matter if you are away from your home, these people will make sure that you will not see a ruined lawn when you are back. In addition, these professionals are going to teach about the process of caring your lawn yourself, how to water, how to apply fertilizer and compost, how to cut over grown plants and grasses, etc.