If you want your lawn to be the envy of the neighborhood use GreenView® Turf Fertilizers. They can set you up with a custom lawn care program that works for your needs. Below are some guidelines that can make it easy to get that nice thick lawn you have always wanted.

When Do I Apply GreenView Fertilizer?
If you are a GreenView Annual Lawn Plan Customer, then you don't need to worry about the right time to apply fertilizer.  With the GreenView Annual Lawn Plan, they deliver your Spring, Summer, Fall and Late Fall fertilizers and lawn care products to you at the exact right time for you to spread it on your lawn.

GreenSmart Products
Lawn fertilizer products with GreenSmart provide more eco-conscious homeowners the combination they’ve been looking for—an alternative lawn fertilizer that improves plant quality and strength by providing a better balanced approach to lawn care.

Step 1 (for existing lawns)		Step 1 (for new lawns)
	GreenView with GreenSmart Crabgrass Control plus Lawn Food A No-Phosphate, Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer with Crabgrass Control that prevents Crabgrass all season. Feeds your lawn for up to 12 weeks. Apply in Spring.		GreenView with GreenSmart Starter Fertilizer A starter fertilizer that’s ideal for establishing new lawns, whether sodding, reseeding or starting new. GreenSmart speeds root growth to improve nutrient absorption and feeds your lawn up to 12 weeks. The special formulation maintains a thick, green lawn through the fall months and provides an early spring green-up. Check local ordinances.
Step 2		Step 3
	GreenView with GreenSmart Broadleaf Weed Control plus Lawn Food A No-Phosphate, Enhanced Efficiency Lawn Food and Weed Control that controls over 250 Broadleaf Weeds such as dandelions, clover and plantain. Feeds your lawn for up to 12 weeks.		GreenView with GreenSmart Lawn Food A No-Phosphate, Enhanced Efficiency Lawn fertilizer that restores nutrients to your soil and feeds your lawn up to 12 weeks. Apply Spring, Summer and Fall.
Step 4
	GreenView with GreenSmart Fall Lawn Food Giving your lawn what it needs for one of the most essential times to fertilize, this Fall Lawn food formulation is a No-Phosphate, Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizer that promotes quick spring green-up. Apply in Fall.

For homeowners who need to figure out the best time to apply lawn fertilizer on their own, here are some tips:

1. Find out what heat zone you reside in.  You can go to the National Garden Association’s Zone Finder and insert your zip code.  With this heat zone code - you will be able to research the correct timing for fertilizer applications in your area.  Your local state cooperative extension service is a good place to start.  In addition to your heat zone, the right timing will be based on climatic and phenological indicators for your region.
   
   
2. When selecting a lawn fertilizer, be sure to read the package label.  Most bags will tell you when to apply the lawn fertilizer - though it will provide only general timing recommendations...like "apply anytime in Spring".  Generic timing means you get average results, because grass and weeds germinate and grow at different times.  And lawn experts know when you apply fertilizer and weed control products is just as critical as what you apply, to get the best results.
   
   
3. In order to narrow down on the right timing for fertilizer application, you need to understand how grass and weeds grow.  Cool season grasses grow in the spring, much of their energy is spent in top growth (trying to go to seed), fertilizer is needed in spring but not as much as when the grass plant is growing roots in the fall.  Spring is also the time when the most troublesome weeds are germinating and emerging.  For example crabgrass seeds germinate when the soil temperatures are 55 deg. F. for 24 - 48 consecutive hours, and this is several weeks earlier than the dandelions emerge or the forsythia blooms.
   
4. If you really want to hit the sweet spot with timing - you need to study the fertilizer label and understand how the nutrients are released over time (is it quick release or a controlled release fertilizer).  Check how long the fertilizer will feed the grass plant.  Greenview Fairway Formula Fertilizers feed through a patented slow release nitrogen technology for up to 16 weeks.  The slow release provides an even feeding of nutrients to the grass plant which helps grow healthy, thick turf.  You will find other brands last 4 weeks and then suggest a repeat fertilizer application.

If this is more work and research than you care to do - go to www.greenviewfertilizer.com and sign up for the Annual Lawn Plan.  They will help you select the right fertilizer product for your lawn, and ship it to you at the right time for you to apply!  All you have to do is push the spreader, they even give you the spreader setting for your spreader model.

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