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As the gardening season
begins to wind down for the fall, a lot of your emailed gardening questions
actually become very timely gardening tips! Like this one; I heard you say
that fall is the best time to feed the lawn. I haven’t done anything to
mine. Is it too late to get started?
The answer is absolutely
not! 2 lawn feedings in the fall are the most important feedings you can
give your lawn. If you have not done any feeding to date, go ahead and
apply a high nitrogen fertilizer now, and you’ll do it again in about 6-8
weeks, or once the lawn has basically shut down for the season. And trust
me, after a summer and early fall like we’ve had so far, your lawn will
thank you for the nitrogen as it tries to recover from this past summer.
Another question I get
right now is concerning weeds in the lawn, and what to do about those.
Well, believe it or not, October is actually the best time to attack weeds
in the lawn!
As the season begins to
wind down, broadleaf weeds are beginning to put all their energy down into
the roots for over-wintering. So by applying lawn weed killers now, they
will shoot those killers right to the roots, and the kill is much more
effective than any other time. Harder to kill weeds are best controlled
when treated in mid to late October.
Remember, there’s no
need to spray the entire yard for weeds. Spot treat using a concentrate and
tank sprayer or using a Ready to Use applicator, and just treat the
individual weeds. And if you sowed grass seed this fall, you cannot treat
for weeds, unless that new grass has been up, growing, and mowed times 3
times - this makes sure it’s tough enough to handle the weed killers. |
