The last fertilizer treatment of the year should be packed with nitrogen. Nitrogen is considered one of the most important nutrients for your grass because it's essential to its growth and development. This nutrient helps your lawn green up beautifully, promotes thicker, stronger blades of grass, and enhances its overall resistance to stressors like diseases and insect infestations. It will also help prepare your lawn for winter dormancy by helping it store nutrients it will need to feed off of throughout the winter here in Ohio. What's more, you should also make sure your last fertilizer treatment of the year contains an ample amount of phosphorus and potassium to give your grass everything it needs to make it through the winter and emerge healthy in the spring.

What does nitrogen do for your grass?

Nitrogen plays a vital role in plant health. This nutrient is responsible for many aspects of your turf's health and well-being. Here are some of the things that nitrogen does:

  • Helps your grass grow strong and healthy: Nitrogen encourages rapid growth in your grass by producing chlorophyll, which gives it its beautiful green color. Chlorophyll also aids in photosynthesis, allowing your grass to absorb sunlight and convert it into energy.
  • Promotes thicker, stronger blades of grass: When your lawn is nice and thick, it makes your lawn look lush and vibrant. Nitrogen helps your lawn become thicker and fuller than before.
  • Enhances your lawn's ability to resist stressors: Stronger, healthier grass has an improved chance of fighting off fungal infections or insect infestations. Nitrogen increases your lawn's resistance to stressors, making it more resilient.

Why is nitrogen so important for the last fertilizer treatment of the year?

Because nitrogen plays such an integral role in your lawn's health, it becomes even more important to apply a fertilizer treatment packed with this nutrient right before the winter season hits. Your lawn will need all the help it can get to make it through the cold months ahead. Nitrogen helps your lawn build up and store nutrients, which it will use to feed off throughout the winter season. What's more, when spring arrives, your lawn will be able to green up quicker when it has a sufficient amount of nitrogen.

Granular fertilizers are great to use before winter because they will supply nutrients over an extended period of time.

Make sure the last fertilizer treatment of the year contains other helpful nutrients too.

While nitrogen is undeniably one of the most important nutrients for your lawn, it doesn't stand alone. Other beneficial nutrients such as potassium and phosphorus play their part in keeping your grass healthy and beautiful throughout the year. These nutrients work together to keep your lawn growing strong, healthy, and resistant to stressors. That's why the last fertilizer treatment of the year should not only be rich in nitrogen but also contain the following:

  • Potassium: Potassium helps your grass fight off diseases and insect infestations, improves its water and nutrient uptake, and boosts its disease resistance.
  • Phosphorus: Phosphorus aids in root development and helps your grass establish deep, long roots. When your lawn has deep roots, it will be able to store more nutrients which it will feed off of throughout the winter.

Give us a call today to schedule our lawn fertilization service.

At Hoffmans Lawn & Fertilization, we offer a fertilization program that includes six treatments for your lawn throughout the year. Our last treatment will have a high concentration of nitrogen to help prepare your lawn for the winter. We offer our lawn fertilization service to commercial and residential properties, as well as HOAs, in Delaware, Lewis Center, Powell, OH, and surrounding areas. Give us a call today at (740) 318-5296 to schedule our fertilization service!