Cheekwood Botanical Gardens

 

Fall is the perfect time to give your plants a jump start for next spring. Why?

Trees, turf, and shrub root systems power up plants for renewed growth every spring.

You can see from my latest visit at Cheekwood that flowers and turf grow better with fertilizer.

Below are the three main reasons for you to fertilize this fall.

 

Three Main Reasons To Fertilize in the Fall

  • Roots systems need recharging in the fall since essential nutrients have been used up during the current growing season.
  • In the fall, your lawn, trees and shrubs will make better use of large amounts of fertilizer than at any other time of year.
  • Their root systems will expand to store sugars they convert from fertilizers applied at this time.

For your lawn, this will lead to earlier and richer green-up in the spring, with less of the unhealthy “surge” growth that requires mowing and encourages disease problems.  For your trees and shrubs, it will lead to improved overall health with an increase of blooms and better growth as well.

So remember to fertilize this fall to “jump start” all your landscape plants next spring by energizing those roots!