What is the best season to start a lawn treatment service in Smyrna?
Believe it or not, November and December is the best time of year to start a lawn treatment service. It might not make sense to you since now is the time when most lawns, except fescue, go dormant. But it actually is. Here s why: • This last application of the year is the second of four in a row where we apply a pre-emergent. These four applications provide approximately 75% of your weed control for the year for your warm season grass.This treatment helps prevent annual bluegrass, which is an irritating weed in the spring. It s also a good time to get after those broad-leaved weeds. If you get control of weeds now, you won t have to worry about them come April. • This is the time to feed your cool season, fescue, lawn with the nutrients it needs to flourish. That s why we spread a high-nitrogen fertilizer. It gets the roots growing. • Fertilizer applied to the lawn in late fall is used by the grass plants to build more roots and to store food for next spring; it does not cause the foli
