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A yard with lush, green grass can improve curb appeal and make outdoor areas more enjoyable. However, lower temperatures and drier conditions may diminish the health and appearance of your turf. Fortunately, proper lawn care can keep your yard in excellent condition throughout winter. Here's what to know about maintaining your grass during the cold months. 

4 Lawn Care Tips for Winter

1. Continue Mowing

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Cool-season turf such as fescue and Kentucky bluegrass may continue growing well into winter. Continuing to mow your lawn can encourage grass to grow densely and support strong root systems. 

Since cool-season species must remain between about two to three-and-a-half inches tall, a professional lawn care company may mow the turf to the proper height to keep your yard healthy and beautiful. 

2. Fertilize

Fertilizers for lawns contain essential plant nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. These ingredients can help blades maintain their verdant color, grow strong roots, and promote disease resistance. Applying fertilizer treatments when outdoor temperatures become cold may give the turf a boost of nutrition that helps it survive longer during winter and recover more rapidly once spring arrives. 

A lawn maintenance company can use broadcast spreaders to apply the appropriate ratio of these products in an even layer over your yard to promote grass health.

3. Aerate

During winter, the weight of snowfall can cause soil compaction, which occurs when particles of earth become tightly packed together. This may prevent water, nutrients, and oxygen from reaching turf roots once temperatures warm up again, preventing grass from regrowing during early spring. 

Allowing a lawn service to provide winter aeration, which involves using core aerators to remove small plugs of soil, thatch, and grass from your yard, can reduce compaction. This may allow moisture, fertilizer, and air to reach and nourish root systems for healthy spring growth. 

4. Control Weeds

Broadleaf weeds such as dandelion, clover, and thistle often erupt on lawns throughout fall. Though they may go dormant during winter, these weeds can quickly regrow and reproduce in your yard when outdoor temperatures get warm again.

This errant foliage may steal water and nutrients turf, causing your lawn to dry out and die. Allowing a lawn care company to apply herbicides to the grass during winter can eliminate weeds, making it easier for your lawn to recover once spring arrives. 

 

Keep your yard healthy and gorgeous throughout the changing season with help from Easy Green Hydroseed and Lawn Care. They provide lawn maintenance, including mowing, fertilizer treatments, and weed control, to clients throughout Tea, SD, and the Sioux Falls Greater Metro Area. Call (605) 941-2230 to book an appointment for lawn care, and visit the website to learn more about how they can improve your outdoor spaces. 

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