We are currently wrapping up our Late Fall Weed-Control Treatment. This is a liquid pre and post-emergent herbicide, which controls winter weeds such as dandelions, henbit, chickweed, and annual bluegrass. Immediate watering is not necessary, but the pre-emergent does need to be watered into the soil at some point in order to be effective.
Fescue lawns were treated with a granular fertilizer and a spot-treatment of liquid post-emergent herbicide. No pre-emergent is applied during fall to fescue lawns in order not to harm new fescue seedlings.
We are also out providing FREE Christmas lights evaluations, and installing displays for many of our customers. If you want to avoid doing the work yourself and would like more information about Christmas light installation this holiday season for your home or business, please contact us and we’ll call you to setup an appointment to evaluation your property for this service.
1. Communicate with us.
If you experience problems with your lawn, or have too many weeds pop up in between treatments, call us or contact us through our Web site so that we can come out to provide a free service call. You see your lawn every day, and we are only out every 6 weeks on average. We can solve most problems, answer most questions, and make you happy if you call us.
2. Water your lawn consistently and properly.
Turfgrass requires about 1-2” of moisture per week to perform well. During summer especially, Mother Nature does not help much. Water deeply to wet the soil to a depth of 6-8.” Fescue needs more watering during the summer months. Do not water lightly every day.
LawnAmerica’s Deep-root injection of liquid fertilizer is the most important treatment for your trees and shrubs, and late fall into early winter is the ideal time perform this service for your landscape. Proper fertilization helps provide a healthy plant, which will perform better next spring, grow more, and stand up to pest problems better.
Call our office or go to www.lawnamerica.com/treeandshrub.html for more information. If you sign up on our Web site, you will save $5!
• Continue to overseed or establish cool-season lawns like fescue.
• Raise your mower height as we go into mid to late fall on all types of grasses.
• Peonies, daylilies, and other spring-flowering perennials should be divided or planted now.
• Plant cool-season annuals like pansies, ornamental cabbage, or kale.
• Begin planting spring-flowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils. We recommend planting in bed areas, and not in the lawn.
• Many perennials, shrubs, and trees can be planted now.
• Fall is a great time to have a soil test done. For a $20 fee, we can determine if your soil is too acidic or alkaline, and make recommendations to correct that. Visit www.lawnamerica.com/soiltesting to schedule a soil test for your lawn.
