Smart Winter Lawn Care :

As winter approaches, many people wonder how to best care for their lawns. They want to have beautiful lawns year-round. But many of us don’t think as much about our lawns during the winter. This is especially true for those that live in the North, where snow will be on the ground for most of the winter months! There are some smart winter lawn care things you can do to ensure a beautiful lawn for spring.

Think about fertilising your lawn a final time before the ground freezes. This will be important to grow beautiful grass in the spring. You’ll want to time this just right. Get out your Farmer’s Almanac to get an idea of the best time to fertilise your lawn. Ask at your gardening center the best type of fertiliser to use on your lawn, as it can depend on your area.

Begin to cut your lawn shorter as you approach winter. It is best to go through winter with a very short lawn. Most often we are shoveling snow off of our lawns and you’ll find that a well-kept lawn is very important after the first snow fall. It can be very hard to shovel snow with longer grass mixed in.

This is also the ideal time to organize your children’s backyard equipment and get rid of what they are not using. Perhaps the children have out-grown their playground equipment. This is the ideal time to take it apart and put it out for pick up. You’ll want to enter fall with a tidy and organized lawn. Sometimes Santa has a way of bringing new background play equipment too, and getting rid of the old now can be very helpful.

Prepare your winter lawn care materials. Get the snow blower out and have your local garage test and make sure it is working. Make sure you have snow shovels and ice melt. Check to make sure you have heavy duty winter gloves. Check your garage for antifreeze to start your car in case it freezes over. Make sure you have covers for the cars to keep snow off them. This is the perfect time to get these materials ready, before everyone else is in line for them. If you need to buy them, you’ll also be paying a much more reasonable cost for them - not the higher prices of winter!

Get out the seed and bulb catalogues and start to plan your lawn care for the coming spring. You’ll want to get your order in early and now is the perfect time to start planning what you’ll want to do. The seed and bulb catalogs most often arrive now because they know people want to plan and plot out their lawn maintenance on their spring gardens. Take a look and start to decide exactly what you’ll want to do.