Winterizing Your Lawn this Fall

Many home owners think that once they turn off the sprinklers in October, lawncare is finished for the year.  That’s just not the case.  Winterizing your lawn is one of the most critical applications of the entire year. The reason is simple: the work you put into your landscape in the fall is directly related to the success that you will see in your landscape in the spring. Grass that has been winterized will wake up in spring faster, greener, and with more growth than grass that was not. But why is that?

Lawn winterizer is typically a fertilizer whose formula is heavily centered around nitrogen. Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients for all plants, grasses included, and is often referred to as the “powerhouse nutrient” due to its role in helping your plants maintain their growth and appearance. Why is this important for your over-wintering grass? Because healthy and stable plants endure the hardship of winter better than weak ones. By treating your landscape with a lawn winterizer you are building winter hardiness, stem strength, and disease resistance in not only your grass, but also in your trees and shrubs. 

To further assist your lawn during the winter, we also strongly recommend aerating in the fall. Aeration helps to alleviate soil compaction and promotes root growth and nutrition uptake in the existing turf.  If you can aerate before applying your winterizer fertilizer, that works even better.

Your lawn depends on you to provide the nutrients and treatments that it needs to survive. Make sure you’re giving it exactly what it needs to do more than just that! Winterizing your lawn and having it properly aerated can help ensure that your lawn has everything it needs to thrive throughout the winter and into the spring!