As the weather starts to cool, tending to your outdoor landscapes and lawn is an often forgotten aspect of care and maintenance. Performing landscape and lawn maintenance is critical if your goal is that your lawn, landscape plants and foliage survive and remain healthy through the winter months. Through fall application of mulch, intelligent watering practices, lawn winterization and protection of delicate pants, your yard and gardens can be ready for inclement winter weather. This ensures your landscape remains vibrant, lively and fruitful going forward.
FALL MULCH APPLICATION & LAWN MAINTENANCE
Autumn is your last opportunity to prepare your yard before winter arrives. One relatively easy and very effective solution is to give your landscape plants a helping hand is the application of a 2-3″ new layer of fresh mulch. Mulch is very effective at protecting plant roots from frost or freeze damage. It also assists plants with retaining critical moisture during the cold season. This will ensure your plants survive and their beauty is preserved for blooming next season. Holder Outdoor can efficiently and professionally apply new mulch to keep your outdoor green spaces beautiful.
This is the perfect time to apply winterizer lawn fertilizer. This step is the most crucial of all of the steps in your lawn fertilizer regimen. A winterizer application ensures the health of your grass is properly supported so normal growth can occur right up until freezing occurs. This step also ensures that nutrients can be absorbed and stored by the roots to spur lush growth once spring arrives. At Holder Outdoor, we can apply a premium winterizer fertilizer to ensure your lawn is lush and beautiful when spring arrives.
CULLING THE DEAD & DYING
Contrary to popular belief, autumn is not the best time for heavy pruning. Autumn is, however, the perfect time to remove any dead and dying shrubs, trees, plants and leaves from your landscape. Remove dead annuals and blooms and cut back dead and dying perennials and grasses. Lightly prune any dead or dying branches from shrubs and trees. Remove dead hydrangea blossoms, but leave the stalks as these will blossom again in the spring. At Holder Outdoor, our professional leaf removal and landscape maintenance services can help you ensure that your yard is ready for winter.
WATERING TIPS FOR FALL
Proper watering is a crucial element of a healthy yard and garden. Your lawn and beds do not require as much water in the fall as they did in spring and summer. Over watering is extremely harmful, so it is important to keep to a steady moderate watering schedule. Twenty minutes of watering twice a week in the morning hours should be sufficient in our climate. Once frost is forecast, discontinue watering as this will be when your lawn enters a dormant state. Pull weeds as necessary, and cut your lawn shorter-down to 2-3 inches of height. This ensures sufficient height to help your lawn retain moisture, but minimizes issues with lawn pests and fungal infections.
Spring is absolutely a critical season for lawn and garden care and ensuring your yard is healthy, lush and beautiful, but autumn preparations are every bit as crucial. A well executed and consistent lawn and garden care routine during the fall months will ensure that your entire landscape is healthy when spring arrives. For professional assistance with maintaining your outdoor spaces, contact Holder Outdoor today.
