The following is a guide line to help your healthy lawn

JANUARY: Warm season grasses BERMUDA, ST. AUGUSTINE and ZOYSIA are dormant (and brown) and shouldn't need any feeding or mowing unless they've been over seeded with annual RYE GRASS or RED FESCUE. Cool season grasses MARATHON, TRIPLE CROWN, BONSAI, PERENNIAL RYE and GRAND SLAM need regular mowing and feeding now until June.

FEBRUARY: Early this month is the best time to start applying a preemergent weed   killer to kill annual weeds like crabgrass on all lawns. A preemergent kills germinating weed seeds.

MARCH: Dethatch warm season grasses and aerate cool season grasses. Continue using preemergent.

APRIL: Feed and mow all lawns. Use a postemergent weed killer on a broadleaf weed if necessary. This a good month to plant a warm season lawn. Aerate all lawns if needed.

MAY: Feed and mow all lawns. Plant warm season lawns.

JUNE: Feed warm season grasses. Don't feed cool season grasses.

JULY: Mow all grasses. Feed warm season grasses. Light feeding on cool season grasses. 

AUGUST: Mow and feed all warm season grasses. Mow and lightly feed cool season grasses.

SEPTEMBER: Mow and feed all lawns. If you need to both reseed and use a fall preemergent, try to reseed this month and use the preemergent in NOVEMBER. Feed cool season grasses (if you didn't reseed).

OCTOBER: Reseed cool season grasses and over seed warm season grasses. Try red fescue or intermediate ryegrass instead of annual rye. Reseed cool season grasses.

NOVEMBER: Same as OCTOBER.

DECEMBER: Mow and feed cool season lawns. Mow and feed warm lawns if they've been over seeded and the temporary grass is ready.

Depending on were you live if temperature is in the eighties or above, it's best not to do any feeding. If you do feed make sure to keep the lawn moist.

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