With the fall season fast approaching, it's time to consider the care your lawn needs to set it up for success. If you want to boast a healthy, beautiful turf, you'll need to fertilize it to help it recover from any summer-related stress and ensure it can survive the winter in South Dakota or Iowa. Aeration is another vital part of fall lawn care, as it'll loosen compacted soil and improve resource access to the roots of your grass. Finally, overseeding will fill bare and patchy areas with new growth, making your lawn thicker and denser than ever. When you give it the TLC it needs in the fall, it has a better chance of starting the new growing season with a flourish.

Fertilize Your Lawn in the Fall to Give It Much-Needed Nutrients

An essential lawn care task you'll want to do this fall is to fertilize your turf. Summer is stressful for your cool-season grass, so you'll want to apply a treatment in the early fall to replenish its nutrients and help it recover from any damages it sustained. Fertilizers contain much-needed nutrients that bolster healthy, resilient grass growth, robust roots, and a vibrant green color, including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. With this application, it can return to tip-top shape in no time!

Additionally, you'll want to apply a winterizer treatment in mid-fall. This treatment will ensure it has enough nourishment to store and use to survive winter dormancy. It'll also help your lawn green up quicker in the spring and ensure it starts the new growing season on the right foot!

Aerate Your Lawn to Loosen Compacted Soil & Improve Resource Access to Its Roots

Another fall lawn care task that'll help you boast a healthy, beautiful turf is aeration. You'll want to aerate your lawn in the late summer/early fall, which involves pulling up plugs of soil to loosen compaction. This process also creates tiny holes in the ground that serve as passageways for resources like sunlight, water, air, and nutrients to reach the roots of your grass more easily. Aerating during this time is ideal because it's strong enough to withstand it and recover in time for winter, and it'll have optimal access to everything it needs to stay at its best and have a successful spring season.

Overseeding Is a Crucial Fall Lawn Care Service That Makes Your Turf Thicker & Denser

The final lawn care task you should do this fall is overseeding. Overseeding involves spreading seeds across your turf to fill bare and patchy areas with new, healthy grass growth, making it thicker and denser than ever. Not only does this enhance its aesthetic appeal, but it also builds up its strength and resilience to stressors, including weeds, diseases, and insects. That way, it can go into winter with fortified defenses against the challenging conditions that come with the season.

Fall is the best time to perform overseeding because the cool-season grass seeds have ideal conditions to germinate, establish, and grow before winter arrives. However, you'll want to do this directly following aeration, as the holes created during this process provide the perfect spot for the seeds to fall into and have optimal soil contact!

Turf-type tall fescue seeds are best for overseeding, as this grass type is highly durable and tolerant of stressors like extreme temperatures and wear and tear.

Call us to schedule our lawn care services today!

At Sharp Lawn Care, we understand the importance of fall lawn care and its part in achieving a healthy, beautiful turf. Fortunately, we offer all the services you need, including fertilization, aeration, and overseeding! With our Sharp Plus and Premium lawn care packages, we'll fertilize your lawn several times throughout the growing season, plus early fall and mid-fall, to keep it at its best. Then, we'll perform aeration and follow that with overseeding to ensure it has everything it needs to gear up for winter.

We proudly offer our lawn care services to residential and commercial properties and HOAs in Sioux Falls, SD, Sioux City, IA, and other nearby areas in South Dakota, including Tea and Harrisburg. If you're in the Sioux Falls, SD area, call us at (605) 251-6880 to schedule today! If you're in Sioux City, IA, contact us at (712) 253-8024 to sign up.