Monthly Lawn Care Products
These are the products recommended for the month based on our monthly lawn care newsletter. Since we are in October, the weather is cool enough to start putting down our Premium Lawn Food. This will quickly green up your grass and keep it looking good throughout the remainder of the fall leading into winter.
If your St. Augustine lawn has a lot of weeds in it, you may want to consider forgoing the Premium Lawn Food and use St. Augustine Weed & Feed instead. This will feed your St. Augustine grass while killing the weeds in your lawn. Atrazine, the herbicidal ingredient in Weed & Feed, take about 4-6 weeks to show results on the weeds.
Alternatively, you can also buy a liquid version of Atrazine by itself. You can buy it as a concentrate or as a ready-to-spray hose attachment. Do NOT use more than once every 6 weeks to prevent damage to your grass.
Bugs are still active this time of year. It is important to use insecticides with different active ingredients each month to prevent bugs from building a resistance to one particular chemical. For this month, use Bug Blaster Above/Below to take care of insects in your lawn.
Use Turf & Ornamental Weed & Grass Stopper to protect against future weeds. Weed & Grass Stopper acts as a pre-emergent herbicide, meaning it prevents new weed seeds from germinating while not harming your grass. It is safe to use any time of year.
Use F-Stop to kill and prevent fungus from spreading in your yard. F-Stop protects your lawn from fungus for up to a month, so it would be a good idea to get ahead of the game before the rainy season makes your lawn more susceptible to fungus.
