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Pine St., Eagle River, WI 54521 715-479-5852 Croker www.northernlakeslandscaping.com NORTH WOODS TRADER Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 Page 2 509 E. Wall Street P.O. Box 1057 Eagle River, WI 54521 FALL IMPROVEMENT Design/Build 715-479-2110 by Visner www.designbuildbyvisner.com Three pre-winter lawn care pointers [email protected] Winter weather can be when all the leaves have harsh, especially on lawns. fallen, that, too, can prove Homeowners who spend much harmful to lawns. Leaves left of spring and summer tending laying on lawns for long peri- to their lawns may fear the ods of time can contribute to impact that winter will have the same types of damage as on their once-lush landscapes, leaves left on the lawn making the fall a great time to throughout winter, so do your fortify lawns against any best to remove leaves as they harsh conditions to come. fall. Homeowners must take 3. Take steps to fight grass type into consideration snow mold. Homeowners before taking steps to prepare who live in regions where their lawns for the winter. snow falls into spring or where Some grasses are best fertil- spring tends to be cold and ized in late-summer, while damp may want to take steps others should be fertilized in to prevent snow mold. Gray autumn. Cool-season grasses, snow mold typically looks including fescue and blue- fuzzy and gray, and lawns in- • Architectural Design • Kitchen/Bath “CKD” grass, are best fertilized some- fested with snow mold may • Design/Build • General Contracting time between the months of develop unsightly gray or September and November. brown spots indicative of dead “Details Make the Difference” Warm-season grasses, such as grass. Pink snow mold may be Bermuda or zoysia, should be even worse than gray snow fertilized between July and mold because pink mold at- September. Once homeowners tacks the roots as well as the have gained a greater under- leaves. To prevent snow mold, standing of their lawns, they continue mowing into the fall, can begin exploring the vari- even as lawns grow dormant, ous ways to prepare their clearing the lawn of grass clip- lawns for whatever winter has pings and leaves after each in store. ing a winterizing fertilizer is throughout the winter may mow. Thick lawns may provide likely unnecessary. In addi- lead to disease in the grass. a breeding ground for snow 1. Explore winterizing tion, homeowners who have Leaves trap moisture and mold, so homeowners whose fertilizers. Homeowners who fed their lawn a balance of nu- block sunlight and air from lawns have a history of devel- want to make their grasses trients throughout spring and reaching grass, and that can oping snow mold may benefit more winter hardy can consult summer likely will not need to encourage the development of from mowing their lawns into landscaping professionals to apply winterizing fertilizer. disease. In addition, leaves the fall. determine if winterizing fertil- 2. Get rid of fallen can harbor insects that also Winter is rarely easy on izers will work for their lawns. leaves. While fallen leaves may contribute to disease. lawns, but homeowners can These specially formulated may be integral components of While it might seem like com- take several steps to prepare fertilizers, many of which are idyllic autumn landscapes, mon sense to delay leaf re- their lawns for potentially made exclusively for cool-sea- leaves left on the lawn moval until the end of autumn harsh winter weather. son grasses, contain higher levels of potassium and lower levels of nitrogen than early- season fertilizers. Potassium helps strengthen and harden plants, and cool-season BEFORE grasses may need extra potas- sium as winter settles in. Homeowners who are not sure if they should apply winteriz- ing fertilizer can conduct soil tests to determine the potas- sium levels in their soil. 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