What To Feed Your Lawn

Every pant required proper diet of nutrients just like any human beings. To ensure proper and healthy growth of your lawn’s grass, Briggs & Stratton recommends that the grass of your lawn must be fed with Nitrogen (N), Potassium (K) and Phosphorous (P). Each of these nutrients is essential for healthy growth of your lawn’s grass. As deficit of nutrients is bad, excessive amount is also bad for the grass too. To avoid unwanted problems of weeds, bald patches, dead grass the lawn must be fed with proper nutrition in proper time using proper techniques.

Soil conditions, climate and the specie of the grass in your lawn make it impossible to prescribe a uniform program of fertilizer application in all type of lawns. It requires expert’s advice to determine which fertilizer is most appropriate for your lawn. Most fertilizer companies provide such a service to lawn owners either at a subsidized are or complimentary. However, may generalities could be made for such questions?

Almost all fertilizers provide nitrogen to the grass. Nitrogen fertilizers come in two varieties. Firstly, the water soluble one which is quick in releasing nitrogen to the plants when applied for. Secondly, the water insoluble type which releases nitrogen in a very slow manner spread over a period of time. Both the type have their specific use. A heavy dose of water soluble nitrogen fertilizers may result in spurt of growth along with weeds which may cause undesirable harm.  Conversely usage of only the slow release nitrogen may result in the lawn responding very slowly at the desired time.
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Briggs & Stratton suggest the use of a mix of both types to give the ideal results in desired situations and the fertilizer companies provide a ready mix of both the type to give the grass the best growth at the best possible time.