Fertilizers

The best way to protect your lawn from weeds, insects, and lawn diseases is to keep it healthy. Healthy lawns are better equipped to resist these and other stresses. Regular feedings with lawn fertilizers is one of the most effective ways to ensure the health of your lawn. Lawn fertilizers promote plant growth while helping the soil maintain moisture. Riedel's Garden Center offers Hays, Kansas customers lawn fertilizer services that will keep your lawn healthy, lush, and green all season long.

Proper lawn fertilization requires expertise and knowledge. Unfortunately, there is no all-purpose solution for lawn fertilization. Every lawn has a distinct set of needs. There are a wide variety of lawn fertilizer mixtures available, each serving a different purpose. Phosphorus promotes root growth and seed germination, nitrogen encourages green growth, and potassium promotes nutrient transport, root growth, and disease resistance. Lawn fertilizers contain a blend of these three nutrients. Which lawn fertilizer blend you need depends on the needs of your grass. A lawn fertilizer that helps with root growth may not help if what your lawn really needs is protection against disease.

In addition to using the right lawn fertilizer mixture, it is also critical that you use the right amount at the right time. Using too much lawn fertilizer can burn or kill your grass and harm surrounding plants. Using too little lawn fertilizer prevents your lawn from producing the correct amount of the compounds it needs to prevent weeds from germinating. When you fertilize your lawn is also important. Don’t wait until your lawn looks like it needs fertilizer to green it up. By that point, your lawn is already unhealthy and vulnerable to weeds and disease. Ideally, your lawn should be fertilized several times per year, starting in the early spring, for the best results.

Remove the guesswork from fertilizing your lawn with Riedel's Garden Center’s lawn fertilizer services. Our lawn care professionals will assess your lawn and establish an appropriate fertilization schedule as well as determine what kind of fertilizer blend will be best for your species of grass and soil type. We can adjust the frequency and fertilizer as needed as the needs of your lawn change throughout the year.

Call Riedel's Garden Center at (785) 628-2877 to schedule a consultation today.