If you live in Northeast Ohio, fall lawn recovery should be on your radar. Summer is a wonderful time, and most homeowners spend more time outdoors. Their lawns are where their children and pets play and where they entertain and simply relax. While this is a beautiful season, it’s also hard on your yard. You need fall lawn care steps to help your lawn recover from the stress of summer.
With the right plan for fall lawn recovery, you can help your grass rebound and prepare for winter hibernation. Follow these five fall lawn care steps to revive your grass after summer and enjoy a strong, healthy lawn in the spring.
Step One: Address Drought Stress
Does your lawn show signs of drought stress? If you see browned patches of grass in your otherwise green lawn, thinning grass or crunchy, dry blades, your lawn is probably stressed from lack of moisture.
It’s best to avoid drought stress in the first place. The best plan is to ensure your lawn receives one inch of water per week, either through rain or watering. Make sure to fertilize your lawn on a regular basis, as this strengthens the grass, allowing it to withstand drought better. With a lawn care package like the Deluxe Lawn Care Program from Grass Master, your grass will receive a lawn care schedule of six timely applications of fertilizer, year-round.
Step Two: Core Aeration
Core aeration is a good way to combat drought stress and strengthen your lawn in the fall. That’s why fall lawn care often includes this process. Core aeration makes small holes, or plugs, in your lawn at regular intervals. This alleviates compacted soil and thatch (dead stems, leave and live roots that impede grass growth).
These holes also allow air, fertilizer (full of nutrients) and water to reach the roots better, while also giving you a fuller, lusher lawn when paired with step three (see below!) in the fall lawn care prep process.
Step Three: Overseeding
Overseeding is a process where grass seed is applied over an existing lawn. Grass Master can offer core aeration and overseeding for your lawn. We use a high-grade formulation of weed-free grass seed. Learn more about core aeration and overseeding from Grass Master and how this can be a crucial step in your fall lawn care schedule.
Step Four: Add Balanced Lawn Fertilizer and Broadleaf Weed Control
In the fall, adding a timely application of a balanced lawn fertilizer gives your grass an extra boost to help it revive after summer stress. At Grass Master, we know the right formulation and the precise application time for Northeast Ohio. Our team of professional lawn technicians will handle that for you as part of our Deluxe Lawn Care Program. We also provide a fall application of weed control, to help stop the weeds that choke out the healthy grass.
Step Five: Apply a Winterizer
Unlike other fertilizers, a winterizer is a special blend that helps grass withstand cold, snow and ice. In Northeast Ohio, winter can be hard on your lawn. The cool-season grasses that grow best here go dormant in the winter, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t need fertilizer. The winterizer we apply as part of the Deluxe Lawn Care Program is a special blend that is high in both nitrogen and potassium. The potassium strengthens the grass at a cellular level, and the grass stores the nitrogen to help it grow in the spring.
Make Sure Your Lawn Is Prepared for Summer
If your lawn looked like it needed to be revived after last summer, now is the time to prepare for next year. We hope this fall lawn care tips helped. With the Deluxe Lawn Care Program by Grass Master, you can have six timely applications that ensure the best lawn ever. We also offer core aeration and overseeding, from our experienced lawn technicians.
Contact Grass Master today to see what our services can do for your lawn all year long.