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Winterizing

Fall is here, and with it the dormancy of all of your plants. How about some fall season consideration to the largest part of your landscape, your grass? For cool season grass (fescue and bluegrass) it is the most important time to fertilize. So much so, it's been said that if you only fertilize once a year, do it in the fall. So give your grass a bedtime snack and fertilize with Fertilome Winterizer (25-3-6). The recommendation is to apply a fall application of fertilizer twice. Once in the early fall and once in November.

You might consider at least a substitution if not a supplementation of Fertilome Weed Out (25-4-4). Why? Ask yourself this: What is the first thing you see in your lawn in the early spring? Dandelions! How can they be so early? They start in the fall! Fertilome Weed Out contains Trimec, a broadleaf weed herbicide. It's a contact killer, meaning put this stuff on when the weed is there. Apply to a damp lawn so the contact killer can stick and after a couple of days, water.

If you have a warm season grass lawn (bermuda and zoyzia), you have a fertilizer just for you: Fertilome Winterizer & Weed Preventer for Southern Grasses. Pay attention here, this stuff is different from anything else. Apply this product after the desirable grass has gone dormant. The active herbicide (Simazine) kills anything that is green. Broadleaf weeds will still be green after the grass goes dormant. TAKE SPECIAL CARE TO AVOID THE DRIP LINE OF TREES, SHRUBS, AND ROSES.