With the end of summer comes the ideal conditions to get some serious lawn care done. It's the perfect time of year to dethatch, aerate, overseed, fertilize, repair bare patches, lime or almost anything else you can do to your lawn.
After a summer of relying on it's root system for nourishment and stressing in the heat and humidity, your lawn deserves some TLC. The cool nights and shorter days are the perfect opportunity to help the grass do what it wants to do naturally - grow longer roots.
This is especially the optimum time to do any seeding. If you use a pre-emergent herbicide (which inhibits seed germination) in the spring, you must seize this time to overseed. Inter-seed within your lawn with a slicer or use a spreader to seed into fresh aeration holes, or just repair some thin or bare patches. Now is the time to seed, not the spring.
Building the best possible root system combined with overseeding will give grass the advantage it needs for a strong start the following spring. In a way, the turf growing season really begins now, late summer.
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