Spring Lawn Care Fertilizer

Springtime is truly a beautiful time of year. Singing birds blooming flowers you just can't beat it. It's really too bad that your lawn is still brown and lifeless looking. I have some good news for you though your lawn can easily be brought back to life with the right spring lawn care fertilizer and a little bit of tender loving care. If you follow your spring lawn care schedule you can be assured that you will have a green, healthy, and lush yard by the time summer arrives. The difference tween default seeding and spring feeding is that during the fall you want to get all the nutrients down into the root system of your lawn, but spring fertilizing was to focus more on providing color to your grass and promoting its growth. You have to be careful though and not feed it too much though otherwise you'll be fighting weeds and diseases all summer long. So how do you know which fertilizer is best for your lawn? Read on and I'll tell you how you can get the best tips  for getting your grass ready for those long summer months ahead.

Fertilize to Meet your Needs

A lot of people commonly make the mistake of picking a balanced formula for their spring lawn care fertilizer. A balanced fertilizer simply means that it is made up of equal parts of three key nutrients. These nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. This theory is flawed in that most lawns are not lacking all of these nutrients in the same amounts. If you want to know which nutrients your lawn is truly lacking then you need to perform a test on your soil. You can do this with either a kit you can buy from your local garden center or you can take it to the neighborhood extension office and they will professionally evaluate the sample. Doing this test will give you the information you need to determine which spring lawn care fertilizer is the best for your yard based on the nutrients that are lacking in your soil currently.

How to Spread it

After doing this soil sample and analyzation, and pick the best spring lawn care fertilizer for your lawns needs you will then need to determine what is the best way to spread that food evenly across your lawn. Making an investment in a lawn spreader can be one of the best decisions that you made as they provide you with the ability to apply a thin layer of spring lawn care fertilizer in the best way possible. The hand held devices are simple to use. All you do is fill them with your fertilizer and carry them back and forth across your yard until the area is completely covered. When you are using a lawn spreader you have to be careful to maintain a consistent pace which isn't too slow or too fast but which ensures an even, light layer of your fertilizer across the entire lawn surface. Most of your fertilizers will require a watering down to get the nutrients to sink down into the soil where the nutrients need to be. All you need to do is keep the sprinkler on it for a few minutes and that should be enough.

Don't wait until the summer months have arrived to start your yard work and get it moving. Giving your yard a healthy dose of the right spring lawn care fertilizer will get that grass on the road to being a lush green carpet that you and your family can enjoy the entire summer months long.