April starts the season when you wake up on weekends to the sound of lawn mowers. It is also National Lawn Care Month. Here are five tips to get your lawn going.
1. Rake your lawn
Clear away leaves, thatch, sticks, dead weeds and matted clumps so the grass gets light.
2. Aerate
Aerating relieves compaction and improves how the lawn takes up oxygen and fertilizer.
3. Dethatch
"Thatch Out" digests thatch and recycles its nutrients, and it cuts down on places for disease and insects to live. It is sold in the TURFection kit.
4. Apply Dimension
Dimension is a granular product that sterilizes weed seed. Apply it every 4 weeks.
5. Fertilize
Use 15-0-15, or a slow-release 24-0-8. Apply it only after you have killed the weeds and applied Dimension. See our fertilizers.