Start the spring off right with good lawn care and your lawn will thank you by growing green and pretty in the spring and summer seasons. Spring lawn care is important in that it is the time when you can catch, diagnose, and fix any grass problems such as crabgrass. The excellent news is that spring lawn care can be completed in five straightforward steps. Ensure you follow these steps each year when spring rolls out and your lawn will start looking better and better each year!

1. Clean up the Lawn Cleaning the lawn of any waste is step 1 in spring lawn care. This step includes raking any leftover leaves, branches, twigs, and so on. This can truly help to ensure a problem free first cutting.

2. Distribute Remaining Snow If any piles of snow have amassed and not melted then you will need to get the spade out and break he snow pile apart. Simply spread the snow around the lawn in areas where there’s lots of sun. This is a critical step as the snow pile could cause the grass underneath to develop and grow slower than the remainder of the grass.

3. First Fertilizing Find a good manure for early spring application. It will have the right mixture of manure compounds for your lawn. Bear in mind to fertilize light as over fertilizing in spring can injure the roots of the grass and cause you more problems than you need.

4. Crabgrass- Remove it before it grows! Early spring is the best time for crabgrass treatment. If your grass had crabgrass expansion last spring or summer than you will need to treat it this spring. The way to treat for crabgrass is with herbicide and it has got to be applied 2 weeks before crabgrass germinates in your area. If you are unsure about when this occurs then you may wish to consider asking a professional landscaper for some helpful advice.

5. Over Seeding Over seeding is the process of placing a major amount of grass seeds on patchy or worn down areas or grass. This process helps to strengthen and quicken the grass growth and to help it look better. If you used an herbicide for crabgrass then you may wait at least a month before over seeding.