1. N = Nitrogen, Nitrogen gives your lawn it's density & color and promotes healthy growth.
2. P = Phosphorus, Phosphorus promotes shoot growth as well as the growth of new roots.
3. K = Potassium, Potassium gives your lawn strength against stress and cold weather and disease resistance.
4. Fe = Iron, Iron prevents yellowing of the grass blades and promotes chlorophyll formation.

Iron is the most obvious and likely to be deficient, most often in lawns with high pH soils. This deficiency turns your grass yellow. So when choosing fertilizer, make sure it contains enough Iron (Fe) that your lawn will need if it has this deficiency. Another element or cause for your lawn turning yellow is magnesium. Your lawn care professional will be able to determine if this is the case for your lawns discoloring.

Get with the Program

Choosing a lawn care program may be the most important element in keeping your lawn healthy. Set up a program and stick to it, consider the fertilizer requirement and also anticipate seasonal problems such as grubs, crabgrass and weeds. Make sure you read the label very closely for the label is the law. Most of what your lawn needs can be purchased at your local nursury or hardware store. Ask a store associate if you need assistance in choosing a fertilizer or you can call your local lawn care professional for some advise. Eliminate problems by providing the right schedule and the right products needed to maintain a healthier looking lawn.

When you sit down to draw up a schedule for your lawn, think of it like a day in the life of us eating.

• Morning Breakfast / Early Spring = quick wake-up energy.
• Snack (before lunch) / Late Spring = early summer strength
• Lunch Time / Mid to Late summer = revival feast
• Dinner / Early Fall = fortification for the long, cold days coming ahead

So what does this mean, well in the early spring give your lawn a quick wake-up feeding, something that will promote color, growth and density like a Turf Builder with Hultz. Then come late spring, something to snack on untill Mid Summer like a candy bar would be for us, more energy such as a Turf Builder plus2 Weed Control. Then Summer give your lawn something to hold it over untill Dinner or Early Fall, such as Turf Builder Summer Guard. And then comes dinner time for your lawn, Early fall Fertilizer and nothing but. Don't forget to ad a Winterizer to your lawn for it's hybernation period, this will help protect your lawn during this cold period and promotes faster green up in the spring.

While your purchasing your supplies needed for your lawns health, also purchase a good sturdy ferilizer spreader. A broadcast spreader is best for applying fertilizers to your lawn. When you purchase your fertilizers that you will apply to your lawn be sure to read the back of the bag to determine which spreader to purchase. Choosing the right spreader is also a major factor in setting up the proper lawn care program.

Now you know the basics to keeping a healthy lawn. For more information on how to keep your lawn beautiful and green also see Watering, Mowing. These topics are just as important in achieving your goal. 

Turf Builder^TM,  Turf Builder plus2^TM  , Turfbuilder Summer Guard^TM , Winterizer^TM are Trademarks of the Scotts^R Company and it's affiliates. These products are used for reference only.

Schoenberger L.L.C. was not compensated for the use of these trademarks and do not endorse these products. Keep all chemicals and fertilizers out of the reach of children. It is in violation of Federal law to use any chemical or fertilizer product in a manor inconsistant with it's labeling. Read and follow all label directions carefully.