Landscape Designers Near Ephrata Offer Fall Lawn Care Tips

EPHRATA, Pa. - Sept. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- Root’s Nurseries, landscape designers serving Ephrata and the surrounding areas, is offering homeowners advice on how to care for their grass and garden this fall in order to prepare for the upcoming winter months and dormant season.

The landscape designers advise homeowners to fertilize their lawn. Fall is the best time of year for this since your grass still needs food and nutrients during the winter. Fertilizing them in the fall ensures your grass will have plenty to eat, even when it is cold outside.

Homeowners should also continue to mow their lawns until the grass stops growing. If it keeps growing, keep mowing. When your grass stops growing, that is the sign it has gone dormant for the rest of the cold season and will start growing again in the spring when it starts to get warm outside again.

The landscape designers also stress the importance of raking leaves on a regular basis. While this is not a chore most people enjoy, it is incredibly important if you want a healthy lawn and green grass next spring. Lawn mowers with a mulch attachment are a great thing to use if you want to avoid the work that raking entails. Mulched leaves make excellent compost for a garden or flower bed.

Trees and shrubs should also be pruned. You should consult with professional landscape designers if you are unsure of how to properly prune trees and bushes, and you can learn even more about when to start this important task.

Finally, the landscape designers say to cut back any perennial flowers or plants that you have in your garden. This helps encourage new growth when the spring months roll around again.

The landscape designers encourage homeowners to call a local nursery or garden center if they have any questions about proper care for their grass and landscaping this fall or winter.

Root's Nurseries have been landscape designers serving Ephrata and the surrounding area since 1895. The company has a long-standing tradition of excellence in offering a wide selection of plants and expert landscape design and implementation. It has a retail plant center that is open to the public, as well as onsite landscaping services. For more information on how to prepare your lawn and landscape for the fall, please visit the blog at http://www.rootsnurseries.com/blog/2015/09/fall-landscape-checklist-from-landscape-designers-ephrata/ .