Now’s the time For Lawn Food Plus Iron

  

This time of year, you may notice your lawn seems to have lost its vigor and doesn’t look as healthy or green as it did earlier in the season. Some summer lawn problems come about due to poor mowing and watering practices. At this point in the season, your mower should be raised to its highest setting, and you should be mowing twice a week. Mowing higher and more frequently will reduce moisture loss and minimize heat damage. Watering correctly is important too. Watering your grass every day encourages shallow root systems. When the weather turns hot and dry, these short, shallow roots can’t deliver enough water and your grass begins to dry up and die. A better approach would be to water deeper and less frequently. This will encourage grass roots to grow longer, reducing the heat stress effects on your lawn. In addition to utilizing good watering and mowing methods, it’s important to feed your lawn now with a fertilizer that contains both nitrogen and iron.

 ferti◦lome Lawn Food Plus Iron supplies the nitrogen your lawn needs in both slow as well as quick release forms. Quick release nitrogen will green up your lawn now, while the slow-release aspect will sustain color through the fall until it’s time to apply a winter fertilizer around Halloween. In addition to nitrogen, Lawn Food Plus Iron contains chelated iron, designed to work in tandem with nitrogen to maintain turf color and long-term growth. It's important to use chelated iron in our heavy clay, high pH soils because your grass can absorb it more effectively than non-chelated iron. This is true any time you're adding iron to your lawn, trees and shrubs. Always look for products which contain chelated iron. 

 

We recommend you include humate in your lawn maintenance schedule. Humate is a highly concentrated soil conditioner derived from the remains of decomposed organic plant material.  Feeding your lawn humate will make your soil healthier, increase microbial activity and enhance the nutrient uptake of the fertilizer. Humate is also a chelating agent. Chelating agents are not influenced by our soil pH and as a result, more of the fertilizer you put on your lawn goes to feed the grass.  Humate is available in granular form in Natural Guard HuMic.

You apply it using a fertilizer spreader.  For your convenience, we have spreaders you can borrow to apply humate and Lawn Food Plus Iron. Lawn Food Plus Iron and humate can be applied on the same day. Apply the humate to the lawn first and water in thoroughly. Then, reset your fertilizer spreader settings and apply the Lawn Food Plus Iron and water in.  

  

  

By following best practices for mowing and watering, combined with Lawn Food Plus Iron and Humate, you can help ensure your lawn will keep looking its best going into late summer and early fall.