2014 Lawn Feeding Schedule
The last half of March we applied Humates to the soil in our customer's lawns. The Humates product we applied has ingredients such as Potassium Sulfate, Molasses, Norwegian Kelp, Yucca Wetting Agent, Select Sugars as well as billions of beneficial microorganisms including Endo & Ecto Mycorrhizal Fungi, Extra Azo-Bacteria, Amino Acids, Folic Acid and Vitamins. These are fancy names and may not mean much to you and me by name, but they are very beneficial to the soil in your lawn.
Adding Humates and the other ingredients just mentioned prepare the soil for the next application (see our schedule below) which will be a fertilizer that has nitrogen (the stuff that causes grass to green up) and in addition has ingredients that provides over 70 + minerals, vitamins, natural plant hormones, natural plant sugars, essential sugars/amino acids/carbon and protein, plus billions of beneficial microorganisms including Endo & Ecto Mycorrhizal Fungi.
Fertilizer Application Schedule *
- Early Spring (March 15-April 1)
- Spring (April 15-May 5)
- Early Summer (June 1-June 15)
- Late Summer (August 1-August 15)
- Fall (October 15-October 30)
Lawn Weed Management
Crash Course in Weeds (Weeds 101): Weeds like fertilizer! Weeds typically have deeper roots than grass which means they have access to more water than grass! Weeds like bad soil (compacted soil)! Weeds like lawns that are over-watered!
- Formula: fertilizer (nitrogen) + bad soil + plenty of water = weeds.
Each season has different varieties of weeds, so if you have signed up for weed treatments in your lawn, we will begin treating the spring weeds after we apply the spring fertilizer (see schedule above). We are treating weeds after each fertilizer application (see schedule below) since that is when they are most active (remember the formula in the paragraph above). You may see more weeds between the time we make the spring fertilizer application and when we treat the weeds, especially if we have never treated your lawn for weeds before.
Lawn Weed Treatment Schedule *
- Early/Late Spring (April 20-May 30)
- Early Summer (June 15-July 15)
- Late Summer (August 15-September 15)
- Fall (October 15-November 15)
- Late Fall/Early Winter (December 15-December 30)
* FINE PRINT: ACTUAL DATES ON SCHEDULES ABOVE ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON WEATHER CONDITIONS
