Lawn Care Tips for Naperville: Getting Geared Up for Spring

green grass treated by lawn care in NapervilleAs the Naperville, IL area’s trusted lawn care team, Lawn Doctor of Batavia-Aurora knows that Spring plays an important role in your lawn’s growth and color. The steps you take now can either contribute to better health and vitality for your lawn or lead to limp grass, weak color, and invading weeds, pests, and diseases. To ensure that doesn’t happen in your lawn, here are a few tips to incorporate into your schedule in the days and weeks ahead:

Evaluate your soil’s condition. If your lawn doesn’t look great, it could be due to any number of issues. And you can’t really pinpoint them until you test your soil or have it checked by a professional lawn care service. Regular testing can uncover problems with the pH level, nutrient content, organic matter, and other factors impacting your soil’s composition. You can then determine what your soil needs to support robust Spring-time growth.

Mow Properly. Mowing your lawn properly may be the most important care practice for your lawn. That’s why, as Naperville-area lawn care experts, we recommend mowing high at least 3″ to 3.5″ or higher. Mow frequently enough to never mow more than 1/3 of the blade at any one mowing (the 1/3 rule). This usually translates into every 3 to 4 days in the cooler days of the Spring and Fall and perhaps expanding the time between mowings during the hotter Summer period. Make sure your mower blade is sharp and keep it sharpened throughout the season. Only mow the grass when the blades are dry. Finally, vary your mowing pattern so grass doesn’t grow in the direction it’s always cut in and be sure to leave behind clippings, as they organically nourish your lawn.

Weed and feed your lawn. Before weeds start taking over this spring, take a proactive approach to lawn care and target them as they’re developing below the soil’s surface. A pre-emergent product will suppress germination for grassy weeds so you see far fewer grassy weeds later in the season. Likewise, spring is a good time for a light fertilization application. This will help your lawn build up energy reserves, better warding off summer-time stress from pests, insects, foot traffic, heat, and drought.

Get More Lawn Care Help from the Naperville Area’s Proven Experts

With warmer temperatures, there are many lawn tasks to do. If you don’t have time for them all, but still want a healthy, thick, green lawn, turn to the Naperville-area experts with a passion for local lawn care. While you handle the mowing and watering, Lawn Doctor of Batavia-Aurora can provide a full spectrum of comprehensive and customized services to get your lawn into beautiful shape this spring.

Lawn Doctor of Batavia-Aurora’s lawn care services are delivered to countless happy customers in Naperville, Batavia, Aurora, Lisle, Downers Grove, St. Charles, and the surrounding communities. Call 630.406.8535 today to learn more and book a free consultation.