I wish I had indulged my yard in a little tender
recacartkidrre | 28 Jun, 2019 04:35I wish I had indulged my yard in a little tender-loving fall lawn care. Today
Im looking out my window at an all-too familiar Midwestern winter. Snow for
Christmas and then a few days of warmth melted the insulating blanket away,
leaving my lawn bare and susceptible to the terrors of an after-thaw ice storm.
Its easy in the warm spring to roll up our sleeves and get out the
rakes, aerators, spreaders and mowers. After all, we can celebrate putting away
the snow shovels and snow blower! However, although spring lawn care is
important, a good fall lawn care program ensures that well have a lawn to tend
when spring rolls around!
I could have started my fall lawn care with a
final mowing. However, the grass seemed to quit growing
so I quit mowing. Silly
me! A final mowing, lowering my mower blade about ½ inch would have helped me to
easily implement the rest of my plan and prepared my lawn to face the perils of
winter.
Before I knew it, my fall lawn care plan got soaked and blew
away during a windy-rainy autumn. Top-dressing my lawn would have been a pain.
The grass was too long for even finely ground compost to reach the soil and I
just couldnt see myself shivering in the chilly autumn as I used the flat side
of my garden rake to spread an eighth inch of it over my wet yard.
Our
red maple, beautiful in autumn, is the last on our block to drop its leaves, so,
I waited to rake. In the meantime, all the neighbors leaves covered my lawn and
wouldnt you know it? By the time the maple was bare, autumn rains were constant
and cold. Fall lawn care was the last thing on my mind! Those half-decayed
leaves are going to be a mess to clean up next spring, in addition to blocking
out the China lawn
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the warm spring rains that my grass would certainly have enjoyed!
So,
this year our turf has to weather the weather and Ill spend my winter
wondering if it will maintain the energy to raise its blades to the sun after
it pokes through that wet mess of leaves. However, Ive got a sneaking suspicion
that Ill be staring at brown patches until summer due to my abandoned fall lawn
care plan.
Good thing its a new year! I resolve to implement my fall
lawn care plan next fall.
1.Cut my lawn one last time when I notice its
stopped growing.
2.Top-dress my grass with a thin layer of compost, not to
keep it warm (Im not that silly!), but to add one last batch of nutrients to
the soil!
3.Spade compost into bare spots and reseed them to give them a head
start on spring growth.
4.Rake autumn leaves to maximize my grasss chance
at getting its share of warm spring rains and sunshine.
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