Lawn owners are starting to ask more questions before signing with a lawn care business to apply a season-long regime of insect and disease controls -- plus fertilizer.
Beware the ides of March is as good a piece of advice for the gardener as it was for Julius Caesar because of the attack of late-season frosts, which are particularly dangerous when plants are beginning to leaf out with new growth. March is also the month...
Plantsman, nursery owner and garden designer John Greenlee first fell in love with meadows as a youngster playing in a field of ear-tickling grass near his Orange County home.
Now is the time to fertilize your fescue lawn. It is best to fertilize before March 15. Putting fertilizer on now gives the grass a chance to take up the nutrients before weeds can steal it. Fescue roots remain active at soil temperatures just above freezing.
The times are making people ask more questions about lawn service companies, says Dennis Patton, a horticulturist with Kansas State University Research and Extension in Johnson County.