Lawn Maintenance and Diseases

 

March 30, 2023

Fairy Rings by William M Brown Jr Bugwood.org

Last week we talked primarily about getting a lawn started and annual fertilizing. The one thing I forgot to mention last week about fertilizing is that you should only fertilize in the spring and only once with a high Nitrogen fertilizer. If you use Nitrogen fertilizer later in the year it could slow down the lawn's move into dormancy because it will think it should still be growing. If it isn't dormant when the cold weather strikes, you have set yourself up for severe winter kill. Never a good thing. Any fertilizer used in the fall needs to be low Nitrogen and high Phosphorus and high Pot...



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