By Bruce Spangenberg
While the maintenance plans for the maintenance of lawn care in January are empty, now is a wonderful time to plan how you can achieve a quality turf with less general care and reduced use of chemicals in 2025. Appropriate fertilization, mowing and good soil conditions are all keys to healthy lawns.
The fertilization has a significant impact on the health of lawn. Lawns require nitrogen fertilizers every year, but information about the appropriate amounts is often unclear. Full Sun lawn needs about three pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square meters for the entire vegetation period, whereby about half of this amount is proposed for shadow grass. Individual applications should be a pound of nitrogen per 1,000 square meters of lawn or less. Excerpts returned after Recycle nitrogen was mowed.
Concentrate on May and early September as optimal times for fertilizer applications. Resist the urge to fertilize lawns as soon as spring arrives. Instead, wait until your lawn resumed growth, and ideally you mowed twice before making a spring fertilizer application. The second key time for the use of nitrogen fertilizers on lawns is the day of work. Choose high -quality nitrogen fertilizers with slow release or controlled release for your lawn.
Although they are often overlooked, proper mowing is of crucial importance for both healthy lawn and for reducing chemical use. Mowing is too short is a common, corrective problem on house grass. Mow with about three inches high for more attractive lawns with fewer weed problems, especially crabras, 2025. Follow the rule of a third, which just says MOW often enough, so that it does not remove more than a third of the leaf blade when mowing. Return clips do not cause straw, and since they recycle nitrogen, you can use fewer nitrogen fertilizers.
Healthy, problem -free lawns share the common feature of the good underlying soil conditions. Grasses that grow in good ground have well developed roots, which means healthy plants. The importance of taking time and effort in order to properly prepare the soil before setting up lawns can not be overempened. Add soil changes such as compost, high -quality soil or similar materials and work them in the upper 4 to 6 inches before planting lawns.
In the case of established lawns with soil problems, look at the core ventilation in your lawn care plan from 2025. This practice gradually improves the conditions for roots, which leads to better lawn that requires less care in the long term. The core ventilation is also an ideal way to cope with straw problems, since it deteriorates both existing straw letters and treats the most common causes, soil problems such as compression and poor drainage.
The properly time -controlled planning and sound practices make big differences in lawn health. Take a look at this column to get more about lawn care and numerous garden topics throughout 2025!
About the author:
Bruce Spangenberg is a specialist in horticulture at the UW Madison Division of Extension. Get answers to your lawn, landscape and garden questions at any time www.go.wisc.edu/gardenquestions