As the vibrant colours of summer fade and the air turns crisp, its time to focus our attention to our lawns. Autumn is a crucial time for lawn care, and feeding your lawn is one of the most important tasks you can undertake this autumn. This is the secret to ensuring your lawn receives the nutrients it requires to support its health throughout autumn and beyond.
Why should I feed my lawn in autumn?
As the colder months approach, your lawn faces several challenges ahead during the frosty and cooler temperatures. Applying a fertiliser to your lawn in autumn will promote root growth and store essential nutrients within the grass to help your lawn build up strength and resilience to withstand these harsh conditions in autumn and through winter. Feeding your lawn in autumn is a crucial step in maintaining a healthy and vibrant lawn year-round.
At Lawntech, we offer a lawn nutrient programme to maintain your lawn’s health not only in autumn, but all year-round.
What are the benefits of an autumn fertiliser?
As an expert lawn care company, we are often asked, “What are the benefits of having an autumn fertiliser?” and as we begin our autumn treatment round, our technician’s will be visiting their customers throughout October, November, and December, applying their autumn fertiliser treatment.
So, in this blog post, we’ve put together the benefits of applying an autumn nutrient to your lawn and why it matters in maintain your lawn’s health this season.
Winter nutrient boost
As mentioned earlier in this post, an autumn fertiliser will give your lawn a nutrient boost this autumn and winter and encourage root development.
At a time of year that your lawn faces a variety of challenges during frost, cold, and freezing temperatures, your lawn requires the vital nutrients it needs to survive these harsher months. The fertiliser will encourage a healthy root system, to set your grass up as best it can for the winter ahead.
Improves disease resistance
Feeding your lawn in autumn can improve disease resistance by promoting overall lawn health and resilience. Fertilisers play an important role in creating conditions that make it less favourable for lawn diseases to thrive. Well-fed grass is more robust and better equipped to fend off diseases such as Red Thread, Fusarium and Snow Mould.
Maintain your lawn’s health and feeding your lawn vital nutrients, helps to ensure your lawn is less susceptible to lawn disease such as fusarium, pictured here.
Prepares your lawn for spring
When spring arrives, we want our lawns to bounce back from those dull autumn and winter months with colour and vigour. Feeding your lawn in autumn encourages sturdy spring growth. The stored nutrients in the soil will kick-start your grass’s growth as the weather begins to warm up giving you a head-start for a healthy, green lawn in spring.
Reduce weeds and moss
Providing your lawn with the sufficient nutrients it needs in autumn, will help to strengthen the grass plants making your lawn less susceptible to weed and moss invasion.
Feeding your lawn in autumn will help to build strength in your lawn to prevent moss invasion.
Encourages overall lawn health
Not only will feeding your lawn in autumn, help to prepare your lawn for winter, but it will also ensure the long-term health of your lawn too.
Providing your lawn vital nutrients in autumn and maintaining a well-fed lawn year-round will enhance the overall health and vigour of your lawn. This means a thicker lawn that can better compete with weeds and resist disease, resulting in a more attractive and resilient lawn year-round.
Applying a lawn fertiliser in autumn helps feed your lawn the nutrients it needs to thrive during the harsher, colder months ahead.
Feed your lawn this autumn and encourage a healthy lawn year-round
Here at Lawntech, our annual treatment programme is designed to give your lawn a healthy balance of nutrient, weed, and moss control throughout the year.
If you re new to lawn care and looking to give your lawn the nutrient boost it needs this autumn, contact our friendly team to find out more or measure your lawn online and get an instant quote sent directly to your email address today.
