During the late summer season, lawn maintenance is more critical than ever. Proper care and practice will help maintain or revive your lawn. Now that it’s August, the shorter days and cooler nights mean that it’s the perfect time to reinvigorate the lush grass your home deserves. Green Leaves Landscape can help maintain your lawn, so it’s ready to make last through the cool, fall weather! Thus, let’s hop into common late summer lawn maintenance tips from the experts!

Lawn Aeration

Core aeration is one of the easiest ways to revitalize your lawn. After a summer of fun and lots of foot traffic, the soil can become compacted. When this happens, water and essential nutrients the grass needs to grow don’t reach the earth. Thus, it results in low-quality grass. But, aeration can fix this issue! During the core process, small plugs of soil are removed. Therefore, moisture and minerals can start to move throughout the ground easier!

Overseeding

Are you finding patches of thin or stressed grass? It might be time for late-season overseeding. Late summer and early fall are ideal for establishing the base for overseeding a thin and damaged lawn. But what does overseeding accomplish? The extra seed will help increase the density of the grass and help the lawn fight back against erosion, damage, and disease. Plus, when overseeding is done in conjunction with aeration, it will have incredible results!

Fertilization

One of the key late summer lawn maintenance chores is the last round of fertilization. Spreading a good fertilizer over the grassy terrain before the cold sets in prepares it for spring! Some of the most common benefits from late-season fertilizer are allowing nutrients to be store over the winter, encouraging a healthy root system, and providing hardiness against the cold weather.

Green Leaves Landscape Lawn Maintenance

Just because it’s technically not fall yet, doesn’t mean you can’t start preparing for the change of seasons! Doesn’t it feel like everyone dreams of having a beautiful, green lawn? But lawns cannot grow like that with just water and mowing! With aeration, de-thatching, overseeding, and fertilizing with proper nutrients during the last of the growing season will guarantee your lawn will hold that green from spring to fall, surviving the worst that winter can throw at it.

For more information or to make an appointment for Green Leaves Landscape to help you take care of your lawn, call us at (508) 393-0005.