I love the look of a lush green lawn, however we seem to be the only one’s in our neighborhood that doesn’t have green grass. After trying for a few years to get our lawn free from dandelion’s I finally asked my neighbor what he was doing to get a healthy lawn.
One of the first things he suggested was to fertilize the lawn in the spring right after the ground thaws. Once you have applied the initial application, he suggested that I add another ferilizer application every two months until the fall. We decided to try out this method as we were trying to get green grass. My husband got out our fertilizer spreader and added the fertilizer. Off he went to start spreading the fertilizer and all was going well until he got finished with the front lawn and realized that all the fertilizer was GONE. He had forgotten to set the regulator on the spreader and used too much fertilizer on our front lawn. We watered for a few days so that the fertilizer would not burn our grass.
We ended up getting our wish….we had the greenest lawn on the block however my husband was very busy mowing all summer long. He often would have to mow the lawn with our Husquvarna 7021 mower at least twice a week. After the summer, he decided that he did not mind not having the green lush lawn that all our neighbors had as he was not crazy about all the mowing.