'Easy' tasks gardeners should do to get 'greenest lawn on their street'

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With spring on the horizon, it's high time to focus on lawn maintenance to ensure your grass is the envy of the neighbourhood come summer.

Delivering top-notch tips for those green-fingered enthusiasts, ITV's This Morning gardening guru, Daisy Payne, has shared her invaluable lawn-care insights to revitalise your turf right now.She pointed out a couple of key tasks that should be undertaken this month to invigorate lacklustre lawns. "Don't be worried if your lawn looks a little bit rubbish at this time of year.

It kind of goes to sleep over winter, and it's probably, well, with all the rain I had yesterday, it's starting to look a little bit sad," she said."Grab a lightweight rake and gently rake your lawn.

This is called aerating it, and it helps bring it back to life in time for spring."It just helps to stimulate a bit of growth and it also helps to get rid of things that are sitting on top of your lawn that are stopping the light getting to it.