August

Alsip Home & Nursery Gardening Calendar for August

August and September are good months to resume your fight against the more stubborn weeds. Plants are actively moving food down to the roots to store for winter, making applications of herbicides more effective.

If you plan to reseed your grass, the best time is between August 15 and September 15. This gives the grass seeds plenty of time to germinate and establish them selves before freezing weather sets in.

When the temperatures begin to cool down, you can resume fertilizing. Low maintenance lawns should be fertilized in September using a balanced fertilizer at the rate of one pound per 1000 square feet.

The last application of fertilizer is the most important one for both high- and low-maintenance lawns. If your lawn tests show your soil is lacking in nitrogen, apply a winterizing fertilizer such as Greenview’s Fairway Formula Fall fertilizer. For an organic alternative use Ringer’s Lawn Restore or Dr. Earth Lawn Fertilizer.

If you didn’t apply Bayer Advanced® Season Long Grub Control in June or July, now is the time to apply Bayer Advanced™ 24-Hour Grub Killer Plus Granules to control white grubs. Use Bayer Advanced™ PowerForce® Multi-Insect Killer Concentrate to control other lawn pests, including sod webworms and armyworms. And if you think you have both grubs and other lawn pests like sod webworms or armyworms, use Bayer Advanced™ Complete Insect Killer For Soil & Turf Concentrate. It provides both excellent below ground grub control and thorough aboveground, grass-feeding insect pest control.

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