CTV Morning Live: Law care Myths debunked by Products Expert from YARMAND- OttawaMowers.com

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1: Wearing spiked shoes helps aerate the lawn. MYTH

• While you can buy spiked shoes touted for aerating lawns, you won’t achieve much aeration using them.
  
• Spiked shoes don’t work because they impact too small an area and further compact already compacted soil.
  
• The best way to aerate a lawn is to extract plugs of soil with an Aerator machine such as the Husqvarna AR19H
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2: Leaving grass clippings on the lawn is not lazy but healthy. FACT

• Recycling your grass is actually very healthy.
  
• Grass clippings are 75 to 80 percent water and decompose quickly, adding nitrogen to soil.
  
• Leaving grass clippings on the lawn after mowing is called grass cycling and actually saves you time and money.
  
• When purchasing a mower, consider getting one with 3-in-1 capabilities so that you can mulch, bag, or side discharge depending on the grass condition and time of year.
  
  

.3 : Nature takes care of itself; using fertilizer is unnecessary. MYTH

• First of all, the lawn is not a natural environment.  All grass needs a low level of supplemental nutrients.
  
• When clippings are collected, the soil is robbed of nutrients that should be recycled back into the soil.
  
• Furthermore, most lawns are grown on compacted, urban soils that are not ideal for growth. Nutrient supplements in the form of fertilizer are needed.
  

4: I won’t have to mow as often if I cut the grass short. MYTH

• If you cut it super short, you may add a few days between mowings, but you also risk damaging the lawn.
  
• Grass that’s too short allows sunlight to reach weeds, which quickly grow and wrestle grass for footing.
  
• Shorter grass also has a more shallow root system, which means it succumbs easily to drought.
  
• Follow ⅓ rule when cutting. Always, cut the top ⅓ of the the grass blades. 
  
• When considering a new mower, look for easy height adjustment mechanism to help quickly adjust mowing height as required.
  
  

5: Daily watering is necessary to grow a healthy lawn. MYTH

How much water your lawn needs depends on a variety of factors, including grass type, air temperature and soil type. Infrequent, deep irrigation is better than frequent, short watering. It results in grass with deeper, healthy roots and fewer diseases.