SPRING LAWN TIPS

  Spring is sprung and your grass is growing.  Now is a perfect time to talk about how to make your grass healthy now and later.  I am sure you noticed weeds in your lawn in February and March.  That was a great opportunity to remove all the undesirable weeds in our lawns before the St. Augustine starts to hide them during the warmer months.  Now that it has warmed up enough for our St. Augustine Lawns to start growing, it is time to feed (using a good organic fertilizer such as Microlife).  The food will help provide the nutrients needed for healthy growth.  This is also an excellent time to apply compost to your lawn.  A high quality compost is one of the most beneficial treatments that you can do for your lawn; it adds nutrients, food, minerals, and biology that will not just benefit now, but also over the next 12 to 18 months.  Don't be afraid to add other soil amenities a needed such as minerals (a good mineral source like green sand or lava sand), Humates, Dry Molasses, etcetera.  Proper use of these products will help yield a thick, lush, green lawn with dense growth that will help push out the unwanted weeds.  Make sure to include a proper watering schedule for the season.  Over watering will lead to nutrient and mineral leaching as well as fungal problems and biology problems.  Under watering will leave your grass lagging behind the growth of your neighbors yards and enable weeds to continue to damage your beautiful lawn.  Enjoy your lawn in a nice rocking chair, or throwing a ball, Croquet, or just playing with the family pet.  Summer is almost here and we'll have a whole new set of needs with the increasing temperatures