October is an important month for lawn care. As temperatures drop, your lawn shifts its energy toward strengthening roots and storing nutrients in preparation for winter. Fertilizing and winterizing your lawn in October ensures that it remains healthy, lush, and ready to thrive once spring arrives.
Here’s what you can do to set up your lawn for success:
- Take care of the falling leaves that pile up on your lawn! Mulch dry leaves into tiny pieces by running over them with a lawnmower – or rake them up the old-fashioned way. If leaves pile up, they’ll block sunlight and smother your grass!
- Fertilize your lawn! Grass absorbs more nutrients in the fall to prepare for the winter months. This makes September and October a great time to give your grass extra nutrients to help it thrive through the winter.
- Take care of weeds—weeds are also going into a high-absorption mode to prepare for the winter, meaning that any weed control you use will be more effective. Many weeds undergo a second bloom and drop another round of seeds in the fall. To protect your lawn, dig them out or use herbicide before they bloom.
- Patches of lawn often die in the summertime, which is why you should reseed any dead patches in the fall to let grass grow back before the cold months.
- Don’t stop mowing! Keep cutting your grass to a height of 3 inches until the first freeze of winter, when it stops growing. Mow when the grass is long rather than following a calendar schedule.
Give the Hard Work to Livingston County Lawn Fertilizer Services
Why do all the work of fertilizing and winterizing yourself when you can hire one company to take care of it all? Ever So Green can provide all of the above services and more. If you live in Livingston County and need lawn fertilizer services before winter settles in, call (517) 540-1100 or request a quote here.
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