Help & Advice
Fall Tips

1. Help Your Ailing Lawn Fall is the best time to help an ailing lawn. The weather turns to cooler nights with more rain, which is ideal for turf recovery and rooting. These conditions plus fertilizing with Nature's Touch 15-1-3 will help thicken and green your lawn.

2. Replace Your Lawn Fall is the best time to replace your lawn. Be your method to seed or sod, soil temperatures are ideal. It's a simple method to start a new lawn - you till, rake, fertilize and seed. With an application of Nature's Touch 15-1-3 at a pre-plant rate of 20 lbs per 1000 square feet, your lawn will be established in as little as 4 weeks.  

3. Lower Your Mowing Height During the fall, we recommend lowering your mowing height to under 2 inches. This helps thicken the lawn and assists with the removal of fall leaves. And most importantly, your lawn builds up tolerance to the stress of winter weather. This is also an excellent time to apply Nature's Touch 15-1-3 to help with root development, fall recovery and spring cleanup. By spring, you will have a stronger, more vibrant lawn with outstanding color.

4. Aerify Your Lawn Fall is the best time to aerify your lawn. Aerification helps the roots of the lawn breathe. This is essential in root development. The strong root development in turn enhances color and density pending the lawn to be fed. Nature's Touch 15-1-3 is an outstanding fertilizer to apply after aeration. It helps with root development, fall recovery and spring green up.

5. Rose Gardens Fall is an ideal time to improve bloom set and quality for next summer. Roses need to be pruned or cut back, and the base of the plant needs to be protected with 6 inches of mulch.  This helps protect the rose bush from the harsh winter weather. You may also use a rose and garden organic fertilizer product to support growth through the winter.

6. Perennial Flowers Like roses, these flowers need to be protected from the harshness of winter weather. Perennial flowers should be cut back to the ground and mulched, and like roses, use 6 inches of mulch. After mulching and pruning, we recommend feeding the plants with a flower fertilizer product to support growth through the winter.

7. Annual Flowers Annual flowers need to be removed and the soil tilled. During the tilling process, an organic flower fertilizer product may be added to the soil to help improve the soil conditions for spring.  

8. Spring Bulbs Fall is the time to plant all your spring blooming bulbs. Over the winter, the bulbs are conditioned by the harsh, cool temperatures of winter. To promote their growth in the spring, we recommend applying an organic all purpose flower food product.

9. Vegetable Garden Fall is the time to clean out dead vegetable plants and till the soil. This is also the time to prepare the garden for spring planting. We recommend an organic all purpose fertilizer be applied. Be sure the product is tilled into the soil as it helps breakdown old vegetable organic matter and rejuvenates the soil nutrient levels. You will have a more fruitful garden the following summer.

10. Ornamental Trees, Shrubs & Ground Cover Beds Fall is a great time to prune and clean up ornamental planting beds.  Pruning older stems makes room for new growth and enhances plant quality and bloom set. Plants weakened by the stress of summer are best fed in the fall. Soil temperature promotes new root growth, which is enhanced by a good fall feeding from an organic acid loving plants feed product. This improves the nutrient levels to promote the vigor for the sweet bloom of spring.