Fall grass maintenance

Make your life easier in the spring by being proactive in the fall. Check out these tips for getting your lawn and garden ready for the colder months ahead.

By taking a few simple steps now in the fall, you can have a beautiful, lush lawn when spring rolls around! Check out these 5 great fall lawn tasks that can not only repair and revitalize your grass but have it growing better than ever next year!

Knowing when to reseed lawn can be just as important as knowing how to reseed your lawn! This post explains the best time to overseed and how to do it, too!

As the days become shorter, so does our time to enjoy our lawn and gardens. It’s also the right time to prepare your lawn for the long, cold winter ahead. Let’s take a look at why now is the perfect time to aerate and seed your lawn. For cool season grasses, fall is the best time for both. You not only give it vital nutrients it needs, but you also help the grass get ready for winter. Aeration holes allow oxygen, water, and nutrients from the soil to go deep into the grass roots.

Let’s face it, crabgrass is one tough challenge! It arrives in Spring and stares at us all summer long. Making matters worse, in the early Fall, you may notice the blades turning an unsightly purple. What to do? In the Fall, the simple answer is NOTHING!

You can plant grass seed anytime during the growing season, but doing so in fall takes advantage of cooler temperatures and milder sun.

Proper fall lawn care includes fertilizing the lawn with Milorganite, dethatching, aerating, overseeding, controlling weeds, recycling leaves, and mowing.

Follow these fall lawn care tips now before it gets too cold to prepare your lawn and grass for winter and reap the benefits of healthier, greener grass in spring.

Don’t neglect these fall lawn care practices essential to a healthy lawn: aeration, overseeding, the best time to apply an herbicide, and fall fertilization.

Bob Vila’s ultimate month-by-month lawn care calendar can help you figure out a lawn maintenance schedule to grow the healthiest and most beautiful lawn yet.