Fertilizing in the Fall: The Most Important Time to Fertilize for Your Lawn & Garden

Now is the time to head to your local lawn & garden or hardware store to purchase fertilizer for your lawn. Nearly all of the local turfgrasses in the Mountain Home area are cool-season grasses such as: bentgrasses, bluegrasses, ryegrasses and fescues. These types of grasses do very well where there are large fluctuations between seasonal temperatures. Cool-season grasses grow optimally between 55°F and 75°F, in the early spring and late fall for the Mountain Home area. Right now, most of the lawns in the area have used up a lot of the essential available macronutrients in the soil during the summer months and need nutrients for continued growth, as well as, to put photosynthates (accumulated sugars) into the root tissue to sustain the winter months. Your garden area has also certainly used up most of those nutrients as well, which is why now is the time to replace those vital elements and help the ground prepare for winter and spring of 2019. For the full story, pick up a copy of the Mountain Home News or click on this link to subscribe to the newspaper's online edition.