So you just bought a new house, well congratulations on the being a new homeowner
. One of the joys of being a new homeowner is having your very own yard but unfortunately that comes with the idea of having to take provide lawn care. One of the first things to being to think about when talking about lawn care is lawn fertilization.
Many people don't know how often to fertilize or even what to fertilize with. We will discuss how often to fertilize and what kinds of products are best to put down when you do. There are many people out there that think that they only need to fertilize their yard maybe twice a year and that will get them by for the whole year and they can have a good looking yard. Well unfortunately that's just not the case since the longest that a fertilizer can stay in the soil is 30 days and after that the yard is not getting any nutrients.
This can become a major problem in the summer which makes lawn care in Austin very tough. The advantage to properly fertilizing a lawn is that it will require less water in order to be healthy which isn't just good for the environment; it's good for your pocketbook as well. So how many times then do you fertilize? Well if even the best fertilizers only stay in the soil for 30 days then it would be recommended that you fertilize every 30 to 45 days depending on the time of year.
Now this doesn't mean that you put down the same kind of fertilizer every time you treat your yard. Since different kinds of fertilizer are made up of different nutrients you want to change up which one you use depending on the time of year. A fertilizer that is heavy in Nitrogen will promote fast growth and greening of the yard but isn't good to put down when the lawn is dormant and not growing up top or in the dead heat of summer since it will stress the lawn out. Unfortunately most of the products that you can buy at the store are heavy in nitrogen since people want the quick green up but that isn't always what's best for the lawn.
A good professional lawn care company will be able to use commercial grade products that last longer and will have enough variety in them that they can put down just what your lawn needs and the right time of year.