Homeowner Tips: Fall Lawn Care

What you do for your lawn during the fall will have a great impact on what your lawn will look like next spring?

There are four simple steps you can take to help ensure your lawn will be healthy, green and the envy of the neighbourhood next year:

1.     Aerate. This means to puncture your lawn with small holes throughout to allow the fertilizer, sunlight, water and important nutrients that grass needs to grow deep within the ground; 

2.     Fertilize. Basically this means feed your lawn before it goes to sleep for the winter; 

3.     Overseed. This is when you spread new grass seed all over your existing lawn with a spreader; and 

4.     Mow. In early November, mow your lawn one more time as short as you can without scalping your lawn. This will help all the other steps above work better.

By completing all of these steps, your lawn should look better than ever when the snow melts and spring has sprung!