Fall Lawn Care

While most people know that spring and summer are important seasons for taking care of their lawns, did you know that the fall is just as important? Here are a few tips for fall lawn care that will help keep your lawn healthy all year long and will help protect water quality.

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Mowing Your Lawn

  • Three inches is the rule!  Keep your lawn three inches high during the fall.  It will help hold moisture in the plant, reduce stress and shade out weeds.

  • Avoid dumping grass clippings down storm drains or in waterways, leave your clippings on your lawn. You’ll need less fertilizer if you leave clippings on your lawn!

 

Mulch

  • Those colorful leaf "bits" provide much-needed organic matter for your soil. As leaves fall onto your lawn, chip the leaves into smaller pieces by running over them several times with your lawn mower. Leaves can also be used as mulch in your gardens beds. Be sure to keep leaves away from storm drains and out of waterways.  Do NOT dump leaves into roadside drains or ditches they create drainage problems, flood neighbors, roads and can create problems in our rivers and streams. Dispose of properly

 

Feed in the Fall

  • Fall is generally the most important time of the year for applying fertilizers.

  • Be sure to test your soil if you haven’t done so recently and use your soil test results to determine proper application rates.

  • Do NOT use a 10-10-10 or 12-12-12 fertilizer, this contains phosphorus and will harm surface water by causing algae blooms.  This can affect our drinking water source.

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