Fall Lawn Care Fertilizer Explained

Before picking the right kind of fall lawn care fertilizer for your lawn it will certainly pay for you to first check and see whether your lawn is lacking in nutrients and this you can check by doing a simple soil test. Next, you have to check the label on the fall lawn care fertilizer which will have three large sized letters and numbers on it that represent the amount of concentration in the bag of fall lawn care fertilizer and more particularly which refer to the macro nutrients that are Nitrogen and Phosphorous as too Potassium, or (N-P-K) for short.

Percentage Of Nutrients

These letters on the label of the fall lawn care fertilizer also include numbers that show the percentage of the nutrient and which allude to the nutrient’s weight in a bag of fall lawn care fertilizer. It should be mentioned that a high number does not necessarily mean that the fall lawn care fertilizer is a superior product; it only shows that the higher numbers allude to greater level of concentration in the product.

Before buying your bag of fall lawn care fertilizer you need to know the area covered by your lawn because you need to use different concentrations for different lawn areas. A fifty pound bag of fall lawn care fertilizer with a concentration of five percent of Nitrogen and ten percent of Phosphorous and five percent of Potassium will only be suited for a lawn that does not measure more than two thousand five hundred square feet of lawn area which you can work out by applying the yardstick of using one pound for every thousand square feet of lawn area.

The amount of Nitrogen contained in a bag of fall lawn care fertilizer plays an important role in choosing the right kind of turf fertilizer. Furthermore, you need to also look at the way that the fall lawn care fertilizer releases its nitrogen with the faster releasing fertilizers costing less than the fertilizer that slowly releases its Nitrogen.

Last but not least, you have to take into account the rate at which to apply the fall lawn care fertilizer. If applied properly you will be able to ensure that your lawn remains thick and will stay healthy and will also be free of weeds.

Having a fall lawn care guide on hand can prove to be a big help to anyone concerned with taking care of their lawns during the fall months. Fortunately, you can get some useful tips from such guides that you can find over the Internet and from local lawn care shops.