Spring Lawn Care TipsSpring Lawn Care | Spring Lawn Care Tips for the Spring Season In the spring, everything begins to grow rapidly after the dormant period of winter. Consider these spring lawn care tips to help bring your yard back to life: As grass comes out of dormancy from the long winter, it should be checked for lawn diseases, such as dead spots and insects like grubs. Healthy lawns that receive proper year-round lawn care, yard care and lawn treatments offered by Lawn Doctor's Lawn Maintainer Care programs - tend to be more resistant to disease and pests all year long. Spring lawn care begins with lawn fertilizing. Proper fertilization of your lawn in the spring is vital because this feeding replenishes the reserves used during the dormant winter period. As the mowing season begins, be sure to review our lawn care tips for advice on proper lawn mowing techniques and safety procedures. Allowing grass clippings to remain on the lawn after mowing is actually beneficial. This process is known as grass-cycling. After a long winter, check the thatch level to see if the lawn would benefit from dethatching and aeration. Spring lawn care can help prevent grassy weeds like crabgrass and the spring season is also a great time to treat lawns with pre-emergents. Spring lawn care services such as proper maintenance of landscaping beds can also prevent weeds. Do you know the pH level of your soil? Having your soil professionally tested by Lawn Doctor can help you determine what compounds might need to be added to create the best growing environment for turf and trees. Spring Lawn Care Tips and Definition of Terms: If you'd like to review the Spring Lawn Care tips and terminology, the green-bolded terms above are linked to our spring lawn care glossary page. For Additional Information On Spring Lawn Care and more Spring Lawn Care Tips For the Spring Season, Contact Your Local Lawn Doctor: Contact us for your FREE Lawn Evaluation or call Your Local Lawn Doctor today to schedule a spring lawn care analysis at 1.877.LAWNDR1 (1.877.529.6371) to find out more about our spring lawn care services. More Spring Lawn Care Tips From Lawn Doctor Here are some great lawn care tips for the spring season. Professional spring lawn care begins with fertilizing the lawn with pre-emergent herbicides. Fertilizing with pre-emergent herbicides helps control weeds and kill crabgrass a warm-season annual weed that reproduces by seed. Lawn Doctor Spring Lawn care services include lawn fertilizing with the proper application of preemergent herbicides that helps kill crabgrass. The spring climate presents and ideal time to rid the lawn of crabgrass. In the spring soil temperatures increase allowing crabgrass seeds produced in the cold climate to germinate. Crabgrass itself often gets killed with cool temperatures in the fall and winter, however crabgrass plants produce seeds and crabgrass seeds are much tougher to kill. One of the most powerful defense forces used to kill crabgrass in the spring are professional lawn fertilization services that include preemergent herbicides. Preemergent herbicides are available in two forms liquid or granular lawn fertilizers and are effective in killing crabgrass seeds as they germinate in the spring. Lawn Doctor recommends using our lawn aeration services before fertilizing the lawn with pre-emergent herbicides in the spring. The timing of spring lawn fertilizing with preemergent herbicides is critical as crabgrass germination typically occurs in lockstep with blooming of lilac bushes. Spring Lawn care can include lawn fertilizers such as dimension and tupersan that are effective in killing crabgrass with pre emergent herbicides and also can contain post emergent herbicides. Contact your local Lawn Doctor for a custom lawn analysis with specific recommendations of the most spring lawn fertilizers for your lawn and yard. Spring Lawn Care by Lawn Doctor Spring Lawn Care Tips That Help Kill Crabgrass, Dandelions and Grubs. Lawn Doctor also offers organic lawn care services that many times utilize corn gluten as organic lawn fertilizer that helps kill crabgrass. Spring Lawn Care also involves grass seed and lawn raking and dethatching. After a long winter, check the thatch level to see if the lawn would benefit from dethatching and aeration. If the thatch level is high on your lawn consider proper lawn raking that removes dead grass blades that have died over the winter and about to become thatch. Spring lawn raking also helps loosen matted patches and air out grass blades that are stuck together which is often a result of winter "snow mold." Spring lawn care and proper lawn raking allows new grass to penetrate matted patches of lawn. Spring Lawn care tips also help with winter lawn compaction. Lawn Doctor offers spring lawn aeration to help with winter lawn compaction. Spring lawn care can also require liming with a commercial lawn spreader to ensure proper acidity levels. Lawn Doctor offers spring lawn care services that fertilize lawns with grass seed to help occupy bare patches. Spring Lawn Care Tips and more information proper lawn care fertilizing in the spring season. Spring grass care and weed prevention helps prevent crabgrass prevention, lawn weeds, dandelion greens, lawn diseases and grubs. Lawn Doctor helps fight weeds, crabgrass, dandelions, grubs and outdoor pests with proven spring lawn care. Spring Lawn Care Tips to help fight weeds and dandelions. If your lawn has perennial weeds and dandelions contact Lawn Doctor for Spring Lawn Care that includes landscaping and proper application of preemergent herbicides and safe lawn spraying techniques. Spring Lawn Care should also include lawn mower maintenance and proper lawn mowing on a regular basis. Health lawns begin with spring lawn care tips from Lawn Doctor. Spring Lawn Care by Lawn Doctor |