I was planning to continue my discussion of watersheds but a trip to the hardware store yesterday for a plumbing part changed my mind.

As I walked through the front door, a new display of stacks of fertilizer bags greeted me. You say, so what.

Referring back to lawn run off, our lawns don’t need to be fertilized in spring. It doesn’t matter if you have cool or warm season grasses.

Warm season grasses should be fertilized in the early summer as it comes out of dormancy.

Cool season grasses should be fertilized in the fall, starting in early September.

This push to sell fertilizer now is purely a market ploy  and can only hurt our waterways.

Get a soil sample done this time of year, so when it does come time to fertilize, you will know the proper amount to apply.

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