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Fall lawn prep

  • Fall chores to ready warm-season lawns for winter

    A cut-away drawing of the ground under grass showing root growth as well as the growth of the shoots of grass at different times of the year.

    School is back in session and autumn is only a few weeks away. If you have a warm-season lawn, now is the time to get it ready for winter. Proper care in late summer and early fall helps bermudagrass, centipedegrass, and zoysiagrass lawns enter dormancy at the appropriate time, protects against cold injury, prevents winter…

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