Homeowners trust fertilizing lawn care from Spring-Green because we take the extra time to focus on the overall health of your yard. We don't just give you a green lawn; we give you a healthy one, too.
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Spring-Green offers lawn fertilization and weed control services in neighborhoods located throughout the United States.
- Lawn Fertilization Services
Unlike other lawn care services, Spring-Green uses a careful blend of lawn fertilizing ingredients that are just right for growing strong, healthy grass.
At Spring-Green, we take care to tailor our lawn fertilization services to the unique needs of your region's climate and soil.
Just as you and I need the proper nutrition to grow healthy, look our best, and stay resistant to disease, so does your lawn. And like humans, depending on what our body types and goals are, we may need to change our diets for optimum results. The importance of quality fertilizing lawn care should not be overlooked.
As the old adage goes, "Good stuff in equals good stuff out." Of course, you can have too much of a good thing. But how do you know the difference? Fertilizing lawn care often begins with basic geography. Your seasonal weather patterns, levels of humidity and precipitation, and the type of soil (e.g., sandy, clay-like, etc.) in your area can affect the nutrient levels of your soil and dictate its lawn fertilization needs. Before you begin your fertilizing lawn care, however, you may need to do a little liming.
Why Lime?
The acidity of the soil in your yard, known as its pH level, will have a direct impact on how effective your fertilizing lawn care program will be. If the level is too high or too low, it can undermine the ability of your soil to properly absorb and/or use the nutrients that ideal lawn fertilization can provide for your yard. Applying the proper amount of lime can help maintain the right pH levels to maximize the benefits of your fertilizing lawn care.
Fertilizing Lawn Care: Basic Nutrition
There are some basic nutrients that lawns need to grow to their potential and look lush and green. Those nutrients are Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Iron.
- Nitrogen - When it comes to fertilizing lawn care, Nitrogen is perhaps the most key ingredient in lawn growth. As such, it can be found in fast-release or slow-release forms. Fast-release Nitrogen is very water soluble, which makes it instantly available to your lawn. The downside of fast-release Nitrogen is that it can be pretty easily be lost in water runoff. Slow-release Nitrogen, on the other hand, is not as water soluble. As such, the Nitrogen delivers its nutrient goodness in more controlled servings over a longer span of time. Slow-release Nitrogen is usually the better way to go. When it comes to fertilizing lawn care, slow and steady wins the race and keeps your lawn healthier year over year.
- Phosphorus - To help root growth and improve germination rates, small amounts of Phosphorus are needed for fertilizing lawn care. Phosphorus is resistant to runoff and tends to stay in the soil. Most soil in the United States has an adequate amount of Phosphorus. In such cases, no additional Phosphorus is needed, as it can present other environmental concerns. Yes, it's that "too much of a good thing" idiom again.
- Potassium - Consider Potassium, also known as potash, to be the exercise regiment for your lawn. If you want strong grass that holds up well to cold, disease, drought, and wear, Potassium is the key. And like any exercise regiment, you are looking for a steady and prolonged program. Therefore, slow-release Potassium is also recommended for ideal fertilizing lawn care.
- Iron - Sometimes, in soil where the pH level is higher, there can be a real deficiency of Iron. Iron helps you get that lush, consistent color every trophy lawn has. Signs of yellowing can be the first tip-off to an anemic lawn.
Your local Spring-Green lawn service can work with you to determine the proper nutrient balance that can bring the best results from your fertilizing lawn care regiment.
For those who live in seasonal climates, dealing the effect of winter's cold and snow becomes another facet of turf care. One way to help minimize the impact winter can have on your lawn is through a late-fall fertilizing lawn care program.
In fall, cool-season turf grasses can be recovering from drought, heat, disease and other stress-related conditions that come with summer. The cooler, wetter weather of fall is conducive to good turf growth as your turf begins to store carbohydrate reserves. This process of building carbohydrate reserves helps your lawn stay resistant to winter injury and provides a source of energy for healthy growth during the ensuing spring.
A little extra fertilizing lawn care in late-fall (think the end of November) can help maximize your lawn's natural winter-defense mechanisms and provide a more subtle, and sometimes more effective, boost to your spring lawn growth.
- For that last gasp of color into early winter, without increasing the likelihood of winter injury or disease, late-fall lawn fertilization could be just the trick.
- Late-fall lawn fertilizing can promote spring green-up without the shock that can sometimes accompany early-spring lawn fertilization. Ready for the bonus? The green-up from late-fall lawn fertilization often lasts well into mid-spring, and can eliminate the need for early-spring fertilizing lawn care.
- And last, but by no means least, compared to early-spring lawn fertilization, fertilizing lawn care in late-fall increases rooting in spring.
Late-fall lawn fertilization that occurs when the grass is still green yet shoot growth has ceased, but before the ground has frozen, could be just the kind of fertilizing lawn care your yard needs.
The ideal nutrient blend for your yard, as well as the ideal timetable for rolling out all of your fertilizing lawn care applications, can make all the difference in your lawn's health and color. At Spring-Green, we custom develop our lawn applications to suit the unique needs of your climate's growing conditions.
To learn more or set up a free evaluation, please contact your neighborhood Spring-Green lawn care service today!