When you start hearing about Chiefs football and back to school in Kansas City, you know that summer is winding down and fall is on the way. While it has been an exceptional year for lawns this summer with very few brutally hot days that tend to scorch grass to a brown crisp, there’s still some things you need to do in the fall to make sure your yard is ready for winter.

Fall Lawn Care and Landscaping Services in Kansas City, Overland Park and Prairie Village

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The first and most important thing you can do is to continue watering your lawn’s grass. Even though lawn care and routine mowing won’t be something your yard will need much more of in the fall, keeping your grass watered and healthy is imperative for it to rebound in the spring. If your lawn has developed patchy areas that aren’t growing much (or any) grass, the end of August is the time to add seed. SK Lawn and Landscape’s lawn care teams will make sure your yard is thoroughly seeded which will help grass with grow consistently this fall and into spring as well. Aerating your lawn can help get your grass growing more consistently and healthy as well when combined with overseeding. Over the course of spring and summer, foot traffic and routine lawn mowing can easily compress your lawn’s soil making it less absorbent to water and keep air from reaching your grass’ roots. Core aeration essentially puts thousands of holes in your lawn allowing much needed water to reach the roots and the cool fall air in which helps your new grass seed grow much faster.

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Some lawns are a bit more stubborn than others to get grass grow consistently and in most cases our lawn care teams find that there is a thick layer of dead grass thatch that is suffocating your yard and keeping water, air and sunlight out. If that happens to be the case, SK Lawn and Landscape recommends verticutting your lawn which essentially breaks up thatch barriers and allows your lawn’s grass to get what it needs to grow. If you care about the look and health of your lawn, fall is a crucial time to make sure it is prepared for winter so that it can rebound in the spring, Call SK Lawn and Landscape at (816) 372-4965 for fall lawn care and landscaping services in the greater Kansas City area of CLICK HERE TO CONTACT US today.