Posted on October 24th, 2017
Ghosts, witches, skeletons — and dismantled lawns? Halloween is just around the corner and what better way to get into the holiday spirit than to decorate your property! Although spooky decorations add charm and character to your home, they can also diminish your lawn’s health — and other plant life that resides by your front door. Before you continue decorating, here are some common Halloween decorating mistakes to keep in mind:
Around Halloween time, a vast majority of festive decorative signs are made with wooden/plastic stakes to secure your signage into the ground. While these are considered generally harmless, they’re actually destroying your lawn. When you place a decorative sign, with a stake, into your lawn, you’re removing a generous portion of soil and grass from where the puncture was made. Instead of placing signs directly on the green parts of your property, preserve your lawn and the place the decoration in the soil of your flower beds. This will be the perfect harm-free solution — and will make undecorating your property even easier, since the soil will be soft!
Trying to create the ultimate Halloween display on your property? Well, by keeping your summer lawn ornaments (and other seasonal items) out, you’re diminishing your display’s theme — but most importantly, these items will get in the way once snow removal season arrives. While the soil is still warm and moveable, October is the perfect time to undecorate your yard for summer and prepare for snow shovels/blowers that are slowly, but surely, on the way. In addition: your haunted house will look much more convincing without the pink, plastic lawn flamingos!
Year after year, the biggest Halloween decorating staple is to place artificial cobwebs on your bushes. Although this may raise your spooky curb appeal level, it’s also harmful to your shrubs. Not only will the faux webs be difficult to remove from the leave and branches — but they will also remove leaves in the process. Instead of draping your bushes with these artificial cobwebs, try covering your front door and other non-foliage features of your property. This will not only make removal simpler, but it will keep all of your leaves still intact — and the cobwebs will look much more convincing, too!
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