Thinking 1 or 2 months ahead is essential to creating a thriving lawn – especially when you’ve made the important decision to go organic. So that’s why it’s important to prepare in August for effective organic lawn care in the fall.

Late Summer Lawn Care Tasks To Do

  • Aggressive hand weeding before fall seed goes down.
  • Look for signs of small grubs in the soil, because there’s still time to add in a fall grub treatment. This year especially it seems like they are everywhere!
  • Make sure to keep the soil moist to keep your lawn as healthy as possible going into the fall. We covered how important watering wasn this year because of the drought (Tips for Watering and Maintaining Lawns During Drought). In addition, watering now will help with seed germination success when you do your fall aeration and seeding.

Things Not to Do
Our friends at University of Minnesota Extension are a wealth of information and one of our favorite resources is their Lawn Care Calendar. They warn about damage that can occur from practices you think may be helping your lawn.

  • Do not spray to control weeds when temperatures are warm. This increases the likelihood of damaging the lawn.
  • Do not fertilize in hot mid-summer months. This can cause irreversible damage to your lawn.

If you would like help getting your lawn ready this year for the best results next year, contact the experts at Organic Bob for more information or to request an assessment and quote to transform your lawn.