Did you know that adding the right fertilizer in the right amount to your lawn requires a little chemistry? Calling in a professional lawn fertilization service ensures that your lawn gets the proper nutrients. You may remember that pH-wise, items are either an acid or a base, and depending on what you want to accomplish, you add an acid or base to move up or down the scale. Fertilizer is designed to meet the acidic or basic load required to feed your lawn, but if you’re not starting with the right formula, then you may be wasting your fertilizer.
Why pH Testing Is an Important Step in Lawn Fertilization
Not knowing your soil’s pH also means that you don’t understand what your grass is missing. When your turf is missing a nutrient, it cannot be as green, lush and full as it could be, and this leaves it vulnerable to pests and disease. You’re also more likely to see bare patches, which makes your grass susceptible to weeds. These are just a few of the reasons why you should consider hiring professionals to apply lawn fertilizer. The pH range runs from 1–14, with 1 signaling a highly acidic soil and 14 meaning a very alkaline (or basic) soil. In this range, 7 is considered neutral. The closer your soil’s pH gets to neutral, the healthier your lawn is likely to be. Most turf experts agree that a soil pH between 6 and 6.8 is ideal for most lawns. Accordingly, the goal of any fertilizer program should be to bring your soil’s pH into this range.
Are you wasting your fertilizer because of your pH? How do you know? When your soil is too acidic or too alkaline, it’s impossible for your grass to flourish. In fact, it may be starving for some nutrients while being overfed with others. When you understand how your soil’s pH level affects the health of your turf, it’s much easier to ensure that your lawn gets what it needs.
A Winning Formula, Lawn pH Testing and Timely Fertilization
In the North Texas area, our soils tend to have a pH that is too high. We need to add sulfur to the lawns to lower the pH. We provide recommendations to help improve pH balance in both your front and back yards. If needed, we will suggest you choose a professional laboratory analysis. We can help collect samples from several parts of your lawn and send them off to a national lab for professional testing of not only the pH, but also the nutrient levels in your lawn.
Results of these tests may show that a plan including slow-release fertilizer treatments can stabilize your lawn, bringing out the fresh, lively turf you want to see. And understand that the timing of treatments is just as important as having the correct nutrient formula. Since every lawn is different, pH testing and a customized fertilizer application schedule will make your yard thrive.
Call the North Texas Lawn pH and Fertilization Specialists
If you’ve been applying fertilizer without seeing results, contact Green Top Lawn Care. We’ll do everything we can to bring it into balance. We’ll apply the right fertilizer at the right time (and in the right amount!) to make certain that your lawn thrives. To get started as soon as possible, give us a call at (817) 684-4044 or request a free lawn fertilization quote today.
