With spring here, your lawn is waking up and growing in again. It’s the ideal time to feed it. However, before you tackle lawn fertilization, you need to pick the right product for grasses common in Erie, Longmont, and throughout Northern Colorado. It’s also important to know your options when it comes to products, so you select the best one for your particular lawn. Where do you begin? Here’s what you need to know.
Everything You Need to Know About Lawn Fertilization
There are many nutrients your lawn needs to grow healthy and strong. However, the three primary ones are nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium (NPK). These each feed your lawn in different ways and are available in all products at a varying levels. For instance, if you see a label with 10-10-10 listed for the NPK, it means it contains 10% of each nutrient. This is an all-purpose fertilizer.
Before choosing, though, you need to consider your specific lawn. Nitrogen is ideal if you’re looking to improve growth and color after a long winter. Phosphorous, on the other hand, stimulates root growth and is a good choice if your lawn is just getting established or looking weak and spotty. Potassium is important overall because it boosts defenses, including disease resistance and cold and heat tolerance.
In addition to choosing the product with the right levels of each nutrient, you can select from granular and liquid formulas. You can also choose products that come with built-in weed control, insect and disease control, moss control, and other additives depending on the needs of your lawn.
Spring in the Erie area is typically an ideal time of year to handle lawn fertilization. Your grass is hungry after a long winter and growing fast as temperatures rise. Just make sure it’s growing actively and out of dormancy before you fertilize, so it can absorb an optimal amount of nutrients.
Turn to Erie’s Lawn Fertilization Experts
With so much to consider when it comes to fertilization, many homeowners opt instead to leave the job to Erie’s experts at Lawn Doctor of Longmont-Boulder. When you do the same, you can count on us for a careful assessment and customized services. We’ll blend the exact nutrients your lawn needs and deliver them using our state-of-the-art equipment. You’ll get green, lush results over time, guaranteed.
We offer lawn fertilization services across:
- Erie
- Longmont
- Boulder
- Firestone
- Frederick
- Mead
- Niwot
- Lafayette
- Louisville
- Superior
- And throughout other nearby communities
Contact us today for a free quote and to get started with professional lawn fertilization in Erie, CO!
