One of the best parts of spring is watching your grass green up and start growing again.
That, and ice cream stands opening up again. And going outside without six layers of clothes. And grilling hot dogs. And opening the sunroof.
Well, there are actually lots of great things about spring, but green grass is right up there.
So if your grass isn’t growing, or your grass is growing slowly, that’s a real bummer, and we can hear you shouting way over here: “Why isn’t my grass growing in spring???”
Let’s get to the bottom of this tragedy.
1. It’s Covered in Gunk
Your grass can’t thrive in spring if it’s still covered in last fall’s slimy and suffocating yard debris.
Gently rake the leftover matted leaves and debris. Loosen the soil a bit so your grass can breathe and grow.
2. Your Lawn Might Be Thirsty
If it’s an unusually dry spring, your lawn might need extra water to green up and grow.
Lawns need 1-1.5 inches of water each week to thrive.
3. Grass Growing Slowly? Try Aeration
When your soil becomes compacted, your lawn can't breathe. Its roots can't take in water or nutrients, which weakens your poor gasping turf.
Soil with a high clay content is especially likely to get compacted, as the particles squeeze together tightly, making it tough for water and oxygen to get through.
Aeration uses a machine to pull out tiny cores of soil from your lawn, allowing water and oxygen to get to the roots. You can almost hear your lawn sigh with relief.
4. Your Grass Might Be Dormant
Before you stand in your front yard sobbing and wailing, “My lawn is dead!!!!!” consider this: If your grass isn’t growing, it might just be dormant, which means growth naturally slows down, and it becomes less green.
How to tell? Give it a tug. If the plants pull out from the ground easily, they're probably dead. If the roots hold fast when pulled, the plants are dormant.
If that’s the case, give it a bit of time to bounce back.
5. Maybe Your Grass Has a Disease
There are plenty of turf diseases in Idaho, and they can strike pretty fast.
Look closely. Is your lawn turning brown in patches? Lawn damaged by fungus will often have a brown dead spot where the grass has died, but a lighter yellow-ish-brown ring around that where the fungus is spreading.
The type of disease will determine the course of treatment.
Applying fungicides can help treat many diseases and revive your grass. A professional lawn care technician can help with diagnosis and proper treatment.
Pro tip: clean all of your lawn tools and equipment after using them on your lawn to avoid spreading the disease to other parts of your yard.
6. Grass Not Growing? It Might be Grubs
If you just shuddered at the mere mention of grubs, we get it.
The squishy little villains feast on your lawn’s roots, causing whole sections of it to turn brown, wilt, and die.
The trick is to kill grubs before they hatch, so apply preventive lawn grub control to nip them in the bud.
Lawn Buddies includes grub control in our six-step lawn care program. It’s a key element of spring lawn care.
7. Grass Won’t Grow? It Might Be Hungry
When your lawn doesn’t get all the nutrients it needs, it sort of shuts down. Kind of like you at 3 pm if you skipped lunch. Your grass depends on you to feed it enough.
Be sure to fertilize regularly. How regularly? So glad you asked:
- Mid-to late-April, once the soil temperature reaches 55 degrees. It should be at the top of your spring lawn care list.4Three times during the summer growing season: mid-May, around the end of
- June, and in early to mid-August.
- Fall. This final fertilizer treatment in fall includes important slow-release granular fertilizer that feeds your hungry lawn for the winter and helps it pop back up, ready to impress, in the spring.
Also, get your soil pH tested. Important nutrients for grass are available in soil when the pH is balanced. If your pH is off, your grass won’t get the nutrients it needs, no matter how much you fertilize
Is Your Lawn Ready for a New Best Friend?
Don’t let slow-growing grass ruin your spring celebration.
No matter why your grass isn’t growing, the pros at Lawn Buddies can find a solution.
And we’ll make it easy.
If you want simple, hassle-free lawn care that offers quality core lawn care services for a healthy green lawn, it doesn’t get easier than Lawn Buddies.
No stressing about which complicated combination of lawn care services will get your lawn back to its beautiful green again.
You don’t have time to fuss with all that. Give yourself a break.
Welcome to one premium, six-visit lawn care program that includes everything your lawn needs to grow healthy and green.
Fertilizer, weed treatments, and grub control, all wrapped up in six visits, each perfectly timed throughout the season, so your grass is green and strong and resists weeds.
Choose a professional lawn care service in the Idaho Falls or Boise, ID area that bundles your yard’s most-needed treatments into one convenient, no-fuss plan that tells you the cost upfront.
We’ve got your back.
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Then kick back and relax in your healthy, thriving yard.
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