Does the idea of finishing yard clean-up fill you with dread? Preparing your turf for winter dormancy can seem like an endless list of chores.
You can put your grass to bed for the winter by focusing on fall lawn care tasks that ensure a gorgeous spring green-up. When you have the right tools at your disposal, fall lawn care gets done faster and efficiently.
Let’s look into why you don’t want to skip on fall lawn care.
Don’t Neglect Fall Lawn Care for a Beautiful Spring Green-Up
You don’t want to wake up in spring to a patchy lawn, snow mold, or weak turf. Instead, you want a fast green-up and a thick lawn that’s resistant to disease and pests.
Fall sets the tone for your springtime lawn.
Top fall lawn care to-dos for cool-season grass:
- Aerate or dethatch
- Overseed
- Fertilize
- Keep mowing until the first hard frost.
Top fall lawn care for warm-season lawns:
- Keep mowing until daytime temperatures dip between 60°F to 65°F
- Raise your mower height to leave your lawn ½” longer than usual to protect the turf’s crowns
- Stop fertilizing after September
- Gradually reduce irrigation so your lawn can harden off for the winter.
If you finish these lawn care tasks before winter, you’ll wake up in spring to a healthy, vibrant lawn. Conversely, if you choose not to do any fall lawn maintenance, you’ll find that your yard may have more bare patches, snow mold, and a hard time greening up.
How Brinly’s Yard Sweepers Make Fall Clean-Up Simple & Efficient
You may be ready to get out to your yard and start on these fall lawn care tasks, but you don’t have the yard equipment to do the job. You’ll next learn how Brinly helps you work smarter, not harder.
How Brinly Helps You Work Smarter, Not Harder
We know these jobs take a long time to finish—you need sturdy lawn care attachments to get them done.
Brinly’s lawn care equipment works quickly and effectively on your yard. Indeed, fall lawn care becomes an easier task to tackle when you use our
You’ll find Brinly’s lawn care attachments are durable and as hard-working as you. Our engineers designed these attachments for long-term use, efficiency, and multi-seasonal use.
For example, you’ll be able to bring out Brinly’s lawn sweeper in the spring to clean up leaves and other yard debris from the winter.
Also, Brinly’s lawn care attachments clean up and store easily. After you’re finished with all your fall lawn care jobs, you’ll be able to sigh in relief that your lawn and Brinly attachments are put to bed for the winter.
Now that you know what equipment you’ll need to complete your fall lawn care tasks successfully, take a look at your checklist.
The Ultimate Fall Lawn Care Checklist
You’re ready to head outside to tackle these tasks before the first hard freeze of the season. There are different tasks for cool- and warm-season grasses.
Cool-season fall lawn care tasks:
- Clean up your yard by removing all leaves unless you mulch them with your mower, as well as seedpods, pine cones, and other debris. A lawn sweeper helps you collect everything to easily dump on your compost or burn pile from your tractor seat.
- Aerate your lawn between September and November to relieve compaction and prepare the soil for grass seed.
- Use our spreaders to plant grass seed and apply compost or topsoil after seeding.
- If you’ve aerated your lawn last fall, dethatch it this year with our lawn dethatcher.
- Winterize your in-ground irrigation system.
Warm-season fall lawn care tasks:
- Clean up your yard by removing all lawn debris, including leaves, seedpods, pine cones, and other debris. Again, our lawn sweeper helps you get the job done quickly and neatly.
- Don’t aerate your lawn or overseed it until next spring.
- Apply a balanced fertilizer by the end of September using one of our spreaders.
- Apply pre-emergent weed control for winter weeds like Poa Annua and put down post-emergent weed control for those broadleaf weeds.
- Winterize your automatic sprinkler system.
We know that’s a lot of work to complete by early November, but if you keep at it, you’ll find that your spring lawn will wake up healthy, green, and dense.
How to Give Your Lawn a Final Fertilization or Weed Control Treatment Before Winter
Your Reward: A Strong Green Spring Lawn
You made it! Now that you’re finished with your fall lawn care tasks, you can rest until next spring when you’ll be rewarded with healthy green turf.
Next spring, you won’t need to start from scratch with your DIY lawn care. Instead, you’ll be able to enjoy your yard during those early spring days.
You’ll be able to grab your Brinly lawn sweeper and other equipment in the spring when it’s time for yard clean-up, pre-emergent weed control, and fertilizer treatments.
When you partner with Brinly, you’ll be pleased with the outcome. Don’t delay, though, because the ground will freeze soon and become unworkable.
Get Equipped With Fall Lawn Care Tools Before The Ground Freezes
You’re in control of your fall lawn care tasks. You’ve worked hard this year—allow Brinly to make the final stretch easier for you.
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Tackle fall lawn care today with Brinly’s lawn care attachments. Find your next Brinly lawn care attachment at these retailers.
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GolfCourseLawn.Store, Fall Lawn Care Checklist.
HomeDepot.com, Fall Home Maintenance Checklist.
LawnStarter.com, LawnStarter’s Fall Lawn Care Checklist.
ThisOldHouse.com, Fall Lawn Care: Essential Tips to Protect Your Yard.