Leaves will soon be turning and falling to the ground. Summer
is coming to an end and cooler weather is right around the corner. This time of
year is a great time to take care of lawn problems or ward off some issues before
they arise. After all, you don’t want to leave your lawn in a bad way heading
into the cold; rather, you want to set it up for ample and healthy growth for
next spring.
Here at Root’s, as a landscape
company in Ephrata, we know all the right steps to take to get your lawn
ready. Aeration and fertilization is one place to start. We’ve put together a
few tips to help you enhance the growth of your lawn through the rest of the
summer and into the fall:
- Enlist the help of a professional landscape company if you feel you need help preparing your lawn for winter. Once your fall lawn and landscaping maintenance is complete, rest easy feeling satisfied over a job well done. The spring will yield a much healthier lawn and landscaping as a result.
- Keep the ground tidy around trees that bear fruit. Fallen fruit can eventually rot and invite disease.
- Start preparing for your raking routine. Have you been considering a compost pile? Now is the time to get one started! With the leaves ready to drop, you’ll soon have plenty to compost. Compost is amongst the greatest of all natural fertilizers in existence and you can easily add your landscaping waste into this.
- It will soon be prime time for planting and establishing new shrubs and trees as well as looking ahead with spring flowering bulbs. So plan ahead! Start shopping now for the best selection. The experts at our landscape company, Root’s Nurseries, can help you choose the perfect plants for your unique landscape and our unique climate. And remember, don’t plant too early or you bulbs may sprout early, only to be killed off by the first winter freeze.
- Plan your final mow. This particular mow will allow for you to drop those blades and cut a bit shorter that you otherwise would.
- Apply high-phosphorous fertilizer mix generously to your lawn. Utilizing this sort of fertilizer will encourage the growth of roots that will allow for green turf emerging much earlier in the Spring than otherwise it would.
