Fertilization
Turf makes it’s own food but..only to keep itself alive, not necessarily keep it pretty and green. That’s where we come in.
Turf is similar to bears, yes bears. It sleeps all winter and thrives the rest of the year. Like a bear, when the grass comes out of dormancy it’s hungry and can’t make enough food to get it to the green we all love. During the spring, it is essential to provide the lawn with a full dose of nitrogen fertilizer to really wake it up. But as the temperature gets hotter, the lawn can’t ‘eat’ that much food.
During the hot months, turf needs some help against the heat. When it’s hot, even a bear doesn’t want an ‘all you can eat buffet’, so the fertilizer must be changed. Lower dose fertilizer fortified with micro-nutrients, we call it the summer multivitamin, is just the ticket. Then, as the temperatures start cooling down in the fall, the bear needs to put on extra carbs to live on over the winter so he doesn’t die and turf does the exact same thing.
During the fall the lawn wants and needs that full dose of fertilizer, or the ‘all you can eat buffet’. All that extra food is stored for the winter so it will come back in the spring.
Those that try to feed the turf the same all season do more harm than good for the lawn.
