Article: Every few months, it’s a good idea to put on a pair of gloves and gently run your hands through the grass. It should feel kind of like you’re finger-combing your hair. This helps pull out any dead foliage and keep your evergreens looking their greenest. Work gloves are ideal for this process, but if you don’t have a pair of those you can always use rubber gloves. Combing through the grass usually removes most of the dead foliage. If some brown blades remain after combing, though, you can always trim them out with gardening shears. Just remember to trim at the base of the blade to remove as much of the dead foliage as possible. Like deciduous grasses, evergreens generally need an annual trim. Unlike deciduous grasses, though, you don’t need to prune that much off evergreens. Use your gardening shears or hedge trimmers to cut any brown or spent flowering tips off the grass. Cut your grass back to new growth, which should still be green. The exact length that you need to cut depends on what type of grass you have and how much your grass has grown out. That’s why you typically go by color instead of length for evergreen grasses.
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Comb through the grass to remove dead foliage. Clip out stubborn dead blades. Cut off brown or spent flowering tips in the spring.