Is Your Lawn Ready for Spring?

Homeowners looking for Spring lawn care tips have come to the right place. Summertime is one of the most difficult times of the year for our lawns. Spring’s lush, green grass has gone and been replaced by dry, half-dead lawns. So how do you make the most of your lawn and help it make it through the summer before the Spring months?

Here are five lawn care tips to help you do just that:

Avoid the urge to cut the grass too short. When you are approaching summer but still putting up with the rainy season, it can be very tempting to cut that grass as short as possible. After all, the rain makes it seem to grow a foot in two days! But as summer approaches, make sure that you adjust the height of your mower blades. They should leave your lawn at least three inches tall or maybe even taller than that. Lawns that are kept at taller heights can grow their roots more deeply than those that are kept exceptionally short. Consequently, lawns that are not cut as short will dry out more slowly because their roots are longer and give them access to water that is further and further under the ground.

 Be consistent with your lawn care practices. One issue some homeowners have is the fact that they wait until their lawns have died off and then start watering them so that they will turn green again. This simply creates too much activity for your grass. If you want it to stay green and lush all year long, then make sure that you are committed to watering it as much as it needs to be. Of course it may be nearly impossible to keep your lawn green, and if so, you just need to accept this and let the lawn go dormant until a more favorable season rolls around.

 Don’t forget that your lawn still needs water, even if you have allowed it to go dormant. Water the lawn early in the day and let it soak down deep into your soil. Dormant lawns only need about a half inch of water every two or three weeks to keep them alive. If you keep up your watering rates like this over the summer, you should see instant renewal when the fall rolls around.

 Keep certain lawn care practices to the end of the summer. Weed killers are best used between late August and early September. Also, tasks like thatching, seeding and fertilizing should be saved for this same time frame.

 Try to keep the traffic on your lawn to a minimum during the summer months. These are the times when your grass needs a break, and any traffic on it is going to make it that much more difficult for it to recover when the fall finally rolls around.

Even when your lawn is lying dormant, you still need to take proper care of it, and by following the above tips, you are sure to be one of the first homeowners with a nicely trimmed lawn when fall does arrive. Just focus on the basics over the summer and let your lawn get the rest that it needs.

We have great information about fertilizers,herbicides, insecticides and fungicides

We at Superior Sod in Wilmington, care about your lawn and want to provide you useful information to make your lawn look its best.

We also believe in helping you save money and protect our environment so we have written these three documents which we invite you to download by just clicking on them.

We wish you all a magnificent fall season and we are always here to help you with your lawn care needs.

CHEMICAL DATA – FERTILIZERS PDF

CHEMICAL DATA  – HERBICIDES PDF

CHEMICAL PAGE INSECTS, – DISEASES PDF

This Summer has been a fantastic year for planting new Sod and Sabal Palm Trees!

With all of the generous rain we have received from mother nature this past summer in the Wilmington, North Carolina area on the Carolina coast, it makes for an easy transition for planting and growing SOD and PALM TREES.

We have been receiving many calls and letters from very happy customers that have come to us for our plethora of wonderful sod varieties and numerous fresh palm trees. They have been reporting 100 percent success with planting and installation throughout this past summer. This is a marked difference in what we experienced in this area last year when we were on the verge of drought.

To assist customers that are thinking about renovating thier yards please come and see us by August 30th and mention this blog post and receive a free bag of fertilizer with the purchase of at least 3 pallets of sod.

Please note that dormant sodding and planting palm trees from September through February is an ideal environment to spruce up an old yard. We invite you to come to our location at 7340 Market Street in Ogden behind the ReStore, to see all of the sod varieties as well as our wide selection of winter hardy palms.

Check back with us to see our upcoming video about fairy ring and other greass diseases.

Also we will be posting information about the best times to fertilize and apply pre-emergent weed control so that you can have the best yard in your neighborhood.

This lovely lawn was just planted  4 weeks ago in Wilmington

This lovely lawn was just planted 4 weeks ago in Wilmington

Al s side Empire yard

Got old tired grass? Come visit us for new Sod!

Zorro Zoysia

A Beautiful Stand of Palms and lovely Zorro Zoysia Lawn can be yours with our help!

Palm Trees

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The Superior Sod Website

Hi folks we have migrated our old website www.superiorsod.us over to this new website please book mark this website as we will be continually adding new and relevant content to help you with your grass and turf and sod management.

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Hello and Welcome to Superior Sod and Garden Supplies Located in Wilmington North Carolina

We are working diligently to bring you a new website that will be packed with information including some great video tutorials!

 

I'm Big Al and I can help you with your lawn

Hi I'm “Big Al” and I can help you with your grass

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