After an extremely dry 2024 there are some big questions for the lawns this spring. While it’s still too early in the season to know how things will play out, I thought I would relay some words of what we are seeing from Brian, our lawn care manager.
“I wanted to mention issues with a lot of bluegrasses this early spring. Last year’s drought, in combination with the freezing, heaving and thawing over the winter and rain while the turf was frozen has damaged bluegrasses. It is still too early to tell exactly how well they will still recover. Patience will be needed. The soil temperature is still only in the mid 40’s. Some you can tell will not recover well. They are just pulling up like it was grub damage, but it is dieback and root damage from the weather conditions. The turf type tall fescue grasses performed well, as usual, and this is why we highly recommend aerating and seeding in the fall for a few seasons to incorporate these fescues into the existing lawn.
In the pictures the healthy-looking patches are turf type tall fescue. You can see some bluegrasses sprouting up in the damaged areas but, some seeding may be needed to get these areas to fill in. Only time will tell. Let us hope we have better weather this summer but for now, this is what we have to deal with.
Spring seeding can be difficult with the crabgrass control application and the uncertainty of the upcoming spring/summer weather. Fall is always a better time to seed but, if you must do some spring seeding than you must. We can adjust the products and timing of the crabgrass control applications accordingly. ”
As always, we are here for all your lawn care questions, needs and concerns. Fingers crossed that mother nature plays a little nicer this season but either way we have you covered from applications to repairs, just give us a call.
