A Few Simple Though Essential Fall Lawn Care Tips
When fall comes around the temperatures fall both at night and during the day and typically will not rise to more than sixty degrees Fahrenheit during the day while at night the temperatures will remain in the forties. This is when it is time for you to start thinking about fall lawn care tips. As a matter of fact, you only need to learn a few simple basic fall lawn care steps to ensure that your lawn remains in top condition during the months between October and November.
Use Proper Fertilizer
The first step you need to take in regard to fall lawn care is find the right kind of fertilizer which will ensure that the roots of plants and flowers in your lawn remain in good health. The right kind of fertilizer will provide these roots with the right kind of nutrients and the best time to apply such fertilizers is toward the end of October and during the month of November.
It is also necessary that you choose your fertilizer so that it contains sufficient nitrogen and which is also loaded with phosphorous and also potassium which can help provides more strength to the roots.
The next step in proper fall lawn care is ensuring that you aerate your fall lawn in the proper manner to ensure that compacted soil in the lawn gets to be loosened up and this in turn ensures that the nutrients from your fall fertilizer will reach the roots of the plants and flowers. In addition, proper aeration helps in breaking down the thatch layer that would otherwise have accumulated during the hot months.
Another simple and effective fall lawn care tip is to also put in some fresh grass seeds which are an act that you can do after having aerated your fall lawn. Of course, you need to pick the right kind of grass seed and at the very least this would entail buying high grade bluegrass or even rye grass mix (perennial) as too some fine fescue that works well in shaded areas of the fall lawn.
Last but not least, proper fall lawn care requires that you mow the lawn properly and ideally the mowing should be done when the temperatures are only in the mid forties and you need to also make sure that you cut the grass about an inch more than normal. In the case of early fall lawn care makes sure to allow the cool season grass to grow to a height that should not exceed three inches during the fall months. Remember however those different kinds of grasses will require different heights; so, consult an expert to find out what is the ideal height for your early fall lawn grass.
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