Tired of looking out over your lawn and seeing spreading weeds? You don’t have to wait until spring to deal with them. In fact, autumn offers the optimal season in which to deliver lawn weed control in the Virginia Beach, VA area. As a result, you’ll see a lusher, healthier lawn – without all the frustrating weeds – in the spring.
Lawn Weed Control: Why Fall is Prime Time in Virginia Beach
Fall lawn weed control can knock out both perennials and winter annuals in Virginia Beach. For perennials, such as dandelion, knotweed, and clover, they’re storing up food for the winter. This means that whatever they’re absorbing travels down from the weed’s foliage into the tap root. When you treat perennials with a fall weed control application, it will get to this primary root, killing the plant in the process.
When it comes to winter annuals, including common chickweed, purple deadnettle, henbit, and corn speedwell, these plants germinate in the fall, survive as small plants during winter, and then blossom and spread come spring. They die off in one year, but before they do, they flower and drop seeds in your lawn, meaning the cycle simply repeats itself, unless you do something about it. That’s why we include a weed control spray each service unless the lawn has been recently seeded.
Beyond Lawn Weed Control: Other Treatments to Focus on in Virginia Beach
At Lawn Doctor of Virginia Beach, we know if you want to say goodbye to weeds for good, you need to do more than simply focus on controlling them. It’s also important to invest time into ensuring soil conditions are healthy and turf is thick and strong. When soil is compacted, it’s not a good foundation on which grass can grow. Also, when there aren’t enough key nutrients available, you’ll notice it in terms of your lawn’s color, density, and overall health. That’s why treatments such as core aeration, seeding your lawn, and fertilizing are also critically important during the fall season.
Want professional help tackling these and other lawn care treatments? Call Lawn Doctor of Virginia Beach VA at (757) 436-4965 and schedule a free consultation with one of our experienced lawn weed control technicians.
