Lawn Care Tips
- What's that organic weed-killer with iron?
- Liquid chelated iron is a new and natural weed-killer that uses iron to kill weeds without harming grass.
- Getting a new lawn to shape up
- Good cultural practices such as not cutting too low, letting the clips lie and top-dressing with compost (as well as using good quality grass seed) are at least as important to a good lawn as fertilizing. The latter is often over-emphasized.
- Time to do the crabgrass preventer?
- Now's a little early to apply the crabgrass preventer on lawns. A good target is when the forsythia bushes are just about finished blooming, which is going to be later than usual this spring.
- Applying lime to the landscape
- Lime isn't an automatic need for the lawn or garden. Make sure you actually need it to make your soil more alkaline before applying any.
- Weeds are up already in my new lawn
- Deal with young weeds poking up in the lawn next spring. No need to worry about them now... they won't be growing much over winter anyway.