This week marks the beginning of the fall season. It is a great time with the start of a new school year, the football season, baseball playoffs, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. It is also the end of summer, heat, humidity, and time to begin to think about winterizing your sprinkler system.
This past summer was tough one for landscapes especially for lawns. The heavy rains in June, high heat and humidity in July and August put tremendous stress on lawns. Grass is a cool weather plant and when the temperature outside rises and it becomes real hot it naturally wants to go dormant. Of course, we want our lawns to be green and lush throughout the summer so we fertilize and water hoping that it stays green and looking great.
Core aeration is one of the best turf practices you can apply to maintaining a healthy lawn. Core aeration is a process of mechanically removing plugs of thatch and soil from the lawn. Lawns need air, water, and nutrients and core aeration opens up the soil to receive these vital elements.
Fertigation is the combination of fertilizer injected into the irrigation water supply and distributed by the irrigation system. The irrigation system provides the method of distribution for fertilizer and thereby provides immediate benefit to the turf and plants covered by the sprinkler system. This is not a new method as it has been used for many decades by the agriculture and horticulture industry.
