Fall Lawn Care Tips

By badbadivy

It's about that time to start getting your lawn ready for winter, depending on where you live. What should you be doing at this time of year to get your lawn ready for winter? Here are a few tips:

Use a quick-release fertilizer. It's important to give your lawn the feeding it needs before winter sets in. Fall is actually the most important time of year to fertilize, but it is often forgotten. Instead of using a slow-release fertilizer like you would use in spring and summer, you want to use one that quickly releases nutrients to the soil.
Keep watering as long as you can. It's important that your lawn has enough water to see it through the (usually) drier season of winter.
Rake those leaves. Not only do you need those leaves for your compost, but the leaves laying on your lawn will cause your grass to mat, and we don't want nasty, matted grass, do we?
Mow that one last time on a shorter setting. My dad calls it "knocking the grass down to the wood". Long grass laying under snow for long periods of time gets matted, and can also cause mold or other funky lawn diseases to take root in your lawn.

Make sure you do fall maintenance on your lawnmower as well- run your lawnmower out of gas so the gasoline doesn't sit in your lawnmower all winter and get gummy. Also, drain the oil out of your lawnmower and put fresh oil in it.

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