{"id":164,"date":"2010-04-09T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/04\/09\/spring-lawn-care-tips\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:54:00","slug":"spring-lawn-care-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/04\/09\/spring-lawn-care-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Lawn Care Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S79AlN7O15I\/AAAAAAAAAMo\/uygz-7kA8u8\/s1600\/DSC_0412.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458152281533765522\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S79AlN7O15I\/AAAAAAAAAMo\/uygz-7kA8u8\/s320\/DSC_0412.JPG\" \/><\/a>April is time for a <strong>minor<\/strong> lawn renovation. All lawn chores should be completed before April 18th, here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6a \u2013 7a). If you are planning a major lawn renovation, hold off until September.<\/p>\n<p>Following a rough winter, fertilizing is a positive first step for rapid green recovery and filling in dead spots. Steps for over-seeding small dead areas: 1) light soil tilling with a rake, 2) fertilizing, and 3) seeding. <\/p>\n<p>Over the lawn, apply a crabgrass preventative and again 3 months later (early July). Timing is crucial. When yellow flowering forsythia is passed blooming, crabgrass seedlings have germinated and most preventatives don\u2019t work. Do not apply a crabgrass preventative to recently seeded areas.<\/p>\n<p>Dandelion, henbit, chickweed, wild garlic and other broadleaf weeds are sprayed on non-windy days. Choose a day when air temperatures remain above 60\u00b0F for 6 hours or more.<\/p>\n<p>Chart your annual mowing height through the year: first mowing at 1 \u00bd inches high; after first cut at 2 \u00bd inches until Memorial Day; during summer at 3 inches; and after Labor Day, back to 2 \u00bd inches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is time for a minor lawn renovation. All lawn chores should be completed before April 18th, here in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6a \u2013 7a). If you are planning a major lawn renovation, hold off until September. Following a rough winter, fertilizing is a positive first step for rapid green recovery and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}