Kolb Lawn Service http://kolblawnservice.com Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:51:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Spring seeding http://kolblawnservice.com/2012/02/13/spring-seeding/ http://kolblawnservice.com/2012/02/13/spring-seeding/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:43:26 +0000 admin http://kolblawnservice.com/2012/02/13/spring-seeding/ Seeding~ Every spring I am asked when should I seed my lawn? This is something you will have to way out based upon a few factors. March is the ideal time for us to put down our crabgrass preemergent to protect your lawn against summer annual grassy weeds.  The residual of this will prevent new seed growth for a couple of months. Then you are into hotter weather making it more stressful on new grass plants. So there is a trade off.  

Seed in the spring and gamble with the crabgrass. Which can be treated later after it has come up but is not cheap to do so, or have the preemergent applied in the spring and wait until fall to seed.  If you have a  decent turf stand and have had problems with crabgrass I would treat for it and wait until fall to seed. Then again if you have a very thin lawn to the point you can see a lot of soil, I would not use spring preemergent  and seed.

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~Things to keep in mind this spring~
Snow mold~ One way to help prevent snow mold disease in your lawn is to avoid piling large amounts of snow in one area.  Instead try to spread it out so it will melt faster.
Mowing habits~ Mowing habits can be as important as the chemical program you have for your lawn.  Besides keeping your blades sharp and the under belly of your deck clean.  It is important to always kep this in mind,  never cut more than a third of the grass blade off.  This means if you keep your lawn mowed at 3″ to 3.25″ as you should.  You should be mowing it when it reaches four inches.
This may mean mowing twice per week in the spring for most of us depending on the species of grass you have. Not always an easy task but it will improve the over all health of the grass plant,  and will cut down on thatch.
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