(ARA) - Lawn-loving homeowners know it takes a lot of care to keep their lawns in tiptop condition during the summer: nicely trimmed and watered on a regular basis. According to garden editor Justin W. Hancock of Garden, Deck & Landscape magazine, "The most important thing to understand about fall lawn care is that you are taking steps to ensure healthy crowns and roots."
“ The most important thing to understand about fall lawn care is that you are taking steps to ensure healthy crowns and root... ”
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. This makes it a perfect time to make improvements to your lawn since it is actively growing but not strained by the heat.
These three essential and easy fall lawn care tasks will help guarantee great looking grass next spring:
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.
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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. Fall is the perfect time to overseed to fill in weak spots and compensate for thinning growth. 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. 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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