The leaves are falling and there is a nip in the air; winter is around the corner. The lawnmower may be stored away, but there are a few more steps left to ensure your lawn is prepared for snowfall.
Why now? That’s simple. After the wear and tear of the summer—hot sunshine, kids running through sprinklers, neighbourhood barbeques, and rainstorms—all lawns need nutrients and general maintenance to ensure their long-term health. Autumn, with its cooler temperatures, is the ideal time to aerate, fertilize, seed and clean up your yard.
Winterizing Your Lawn: A Step-by-Step Guide
At Mountainview, we take pride in helping our customers and our community by offering high-quality products paired with our expert advice. From our team to your family, please enjoy this Mountainview guide to winterizing your lawn.
1. Clean up, put away: Patio furniture, kids’ toys, and yard décor should all be properly covered and stored at this time of year. Take down overhead sails or awnings, cover shrubs, and pack away garden hoses and nozzles until spring.
2. Aerate the grass: This is an important (and often skipped!) step of pre-winter lawn care. We strongly recommend aeration; it is good for grass, and helps it grow. By creating small holes in the soil, aeration helps draw water, oxygen and nutrients down to the roots of the grass. There are several tools available, so buy, rent or borrow, or book a service from a member of our team.
3. Apply fertilizer: We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: fertilizer is the best thing you can do for your lawn this winter. Fertilization ensures your lawn or greenspace receives and stores essential nutrients while in dormancy. Come spring, the nutrients are released, and the lawn grows quickly, lush and green, right from the start. We sell a comprehensive line of fertilizers and are available to help select the right product.
4. Seed & Repair: Seeding isn’t just for spring. In fact, fall is the ideal time to apply a lawn repair seed mixture to address bare spots that developed over the summer season. It will also help weed suppression, giving healthy grass a head start, and the chance to outcompete troublesome weeds before they appear.
5. Stay off your lawn: When the temperature drops, the ground and grass freeze. We recommend keeping off the grass as much as possible. When frozen, but without snow cover, grass is at its most delicate state this time of year, and even footsteps can make a big impact.
There you have it, five steps to winterization. All that’s left is to enjoy the winter and the snow: build snowmen with the family, make forts, and have a snowball fight. Winter is a magical time of year, and, thanks to the hard work of winterizing, your lawn will return in due time, better than ever, so be patient: it’ll be worth the wait.
The Mountainview Team is on hand with the supplies, or care services to ensure any lawn is winterized. Visit our online store or contact a representative today.
