Time to Feed and Seed your Lawn

Late summer is one of the best time of the year for working on your lawn, including fertilizing, weed control, establishing a new lawn or renovating an existing lawn. If you haven’t fed your lawn for a while, now’s the time to add ferti-lome Lawn Food Plus Iron.

Ferti-lome Lawn Food Plus Iron contains Nitrogen, Potash and Chelated Iron. This product will quickly green up your lawn and keep it green long term. That's because ferti-lome Lawn Food Plus Iron contains chelated iron. 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. 

Humic acid is another product you can apply to your lawn now to help your grass. Natural Guard HuMic is a highly concentrated soil conditioner derived from the remains of decomposed organic plant materials, HuMic will make your soil healthier, increase microbial activity and enhance nutrient uptake. Just like any other plant in your garden or landscape, your grass is only as good as the soil it is growing in. Anything you can do to make your soil healthier improves the quality of your turf grass. 

If you’re thinking about re-seeding those bare spots or adding seed to the whole lawn to help thicken it up, now is the time. Start with selecting the right seed for your lawn. Most of the grasses we use in our lawns are “cool-season” grasses. They do best when the temperatures are cooler. That’s why spring and fall are the best times to seed or re-seed your lawn.  We recommend you choose seed that will work in our area. We get our grass seed from the Greely, Fort Collins area. When selecting grass seed, Perennial rye and bluegrass are generally better for sunny and semi-shady areas. Fescue does best for shady areas. Rake up the area you're trying to repair.

Add a good soil amendment such as Earth Essentials Sheep, Peat and Compost.

Sow the seed as evenly as possible, then cover the seed with a thin layer of Sheep, Peat and Compost. Keep the newly-seeded area moist until the grass seed has germinated and is established. Grass planted in late summer into early fall continues to build a strong root system even after the grass blades have stopped growing. Your lawn will be ready for a great start next spring.