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Last Updated: Jul 2nd, 2008 - 21:15:22 |
(ARA) – As summer draws to a close, homeowners everywhere are looking forward to taking a break from lawn care. But before you put away your yard tools, take a weekend to give your lawn a jump start for next spring. How you care for your lawn in autumn determines to a great extent its health in the upcoming year.
Lawns work hard in the fall to prepare for the next 12 months, developing root systems to enable them to be drought resistant and stress tolerant in the upcoming year. “The most important thing to understand about fall lawn care is that you are taking steps to ensure healthy crowns and roots,” explains Justin W. Hancock, garden editor for Garden, Deck & Landscape magazine.
Fall is a perfect time to make improvements to your lawn since it is actively growing but not strained by the heat. All it takes is three essential yet easy tasks:
1. Let Your Lawn Breathe. The most important thing you can do this fall to reduce stress and ensure your lawn's health and vigor is to aerate. Aeration is the baseline for all fall lawn care processes. Opening up the root system provides a direct path for air, water and nutrients to reach the grass roots, and this encourages more roots to take hold and to grow deeper into the soil.
But until very recently, aeration has been time consuming, expensive, messy and labor intensive, all reasons why many of us just don't do it. Now there's a new "ground breaking" liquid solution to lawn aeration without any of the stress, the mess or the hard work. All you need is a hose end sprayer and LazyMan Liquid Soil Aerator. Just spray on LazyMan and 100 percent of your soil will be treated in no time without the unsightly mess a core-aerator leaves behind.
LazyMan Liquid Aeration helps reduce crusting, loosens up hard clay soils, aggregates sandy soil and allows water and oxygen to better reach plant roots by reducing the surface tension between the water and the soil. It even increases earthworm population, nature's aerator, in the soil.
2. Overseed Bare, Thinning Spots. Now that your lawn has been properly aerated, it’s time to overseed to fill in weak spots and compensate for thinning growth. The ideal time for planting grass seed to either establish a new lawn or renovate a poor quality one is fall. Top quality grass seed will germinate better and be more disease resistant over time. To find the ideal seed for your lawn, visit www.lazymangardener.com.
3. Feed a Hungry Lawn. The best time of the year to fertilize your lawn is early fall. Your lawn has passed through the stressful summer months and needs food to rebuild itself. During the fall season there is less competition from weeds, insects and diseases. Look for a top quality fertilizer that contains slow-release or controlled-released nitrogen. These forms stimulate uniform growth over a period of time and are less likely to burn the grass.
By following these simple steps you can sleep easily through the winter knowing that when your lawn awakens from its winter slumber it will be healthy and ready for spring.
You can't trust every old saying, but here's one you can trust and your yard can benefit from: "Beautiful lawns are made in the fall." So this fall get your grass in great shape for winter and supercharged for next spring.
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Courtesy of ARA Content
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