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How is your lawn like baseball?!? If you want the glory in the summer and fall, you need to put in the work in the spring!  Spring is the ideal time to get your lawn started on an All-Star season by patching any bare spots, overseeding, treating for grubs and fertilizing.

 

Now is the time to patch any bare spots in your lawn and overseed – the warmer temperatures during the day will help the seeds germinate and sprout and it gives you a couple weeks off of mowing! First, prepare the soil for the seed by scraping out any dead grass and softening the ground. Then add the seed using a spreader (or your hand). Finally, give it nutrients and protect it from birds with a layer of nutrient rich soil. Water the newly seeded areas daily for two weeks.

 

Over the winter months, your lawn was mostly dormant – it wasn’t doing much growing, but now that it is waking up in the spring, it is hungry and ready for some nutrients! Give it what it wants with fertilizer! Want a double play? Use a fertilizer with a weed killer too to keep dandelions, crabgrass and other weeds from taking over!

 

If your lawn was torn up last year, it might be animals (raccoons, turkeys) looking for grubs. Late spring is the time that hibernating grubs in the lawn begin to crawl toward the surface to chew grass roots before flying off to find a mate. Apply a grub treatment now to eliminate new grubs before they have a chance to hatch.

 

Now for the finishing touch - Apply mulch to planter beds around the lawn. Wait until the soil has warmed to refresh mulch for the growing season. Shredded mulch provides a polished finish to planting beds and adds nutrients to the soil as it breaks down!

 

Looking for someone to help you spread mulch for your front yard? We have coordinated with Pablo Reyes from Reyes Landscape Service to provide a bulk mulching service specifically for Deer Ridge homeowners. If you are interested in having Pablo mulch your yard, please contact him via phone (925-822-8063) by April 15.

 

As part of the Board’s push to continually improve the look of our neighborhood, we will be sending out reminder letters to owners in late April of items that need to be addressed in your front yard, including dead plants, weeds and mulching. If you want to save yourself a letter, plan ahead to get your yard in top condition by mid-April!