While it’s still a little early to get out in the yard, it’s not too soon to start planning on how this year, you’re going to have lush, vibrant grass surrounding your house. If you’re crafting your 2022 lawn care plan, here are three treatments to get scheduled right away:
Spring Fertilization
It’s been a long, cold winter. Your grass has survived based on whatever fertilizer you gave them at the end of last year’s growing season, as well as the natural reserves they’ve stored up. But now, after months under the snow, the grass is starting to feel stressed. It needs a big boost of nutrition and strength. That means fertilizer, individually formulated, mixed, and applied by your West Bridgewater lawn care company.
Power Seeding
In areas where the grass growth was underwhelming last year, or around new construction, power seeding is the best strategy to jump start spring grass growth. The secret to rapid grass growth is the maximization of seed-soil contact. Traditionally, people did what was called a broadcast seed dispersal for grass – basically, scattering handfuls of seed over the top of the soil. This worked, but only so well. For better results, we make use of technology to deposit specially prepared seeds – they’re coated with an extra dose of fertilizer for rapid growth – into the soil completely. The seed-soil contact is at its maximum and growth is generally pretty impressive.
Weed Control
One thing that really helps grass grow well is eliminating the competition it faces from crabgrass and other broad leafed weeds. Crabgrass is a really tough opponent for most grass – these hardy plants monopolize all of the water and nutrients in the soil for themselves. This means your grass is undernourished and weak. Give your grass a fighting chance by having your West Bridgewater lawn care service perform pre-emergent weed control to stop crabgrass from even growing in the first place.
