Lawn care fertilizer

Need and composition of fertilizer

The fertilizer that is used in the lawn consists of three different chemicals and they are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Nitrogen is the important constituent that can be added to your lawn for the element needed to make the grass grow and get its green color. It also helps to create thickness, let off density and brawny growth to help fight-off weeds and pests. Phosphorus is used chiefly to push strong grass root growth and founding. An increase in phosphorus during times of new planting and renewing old lawns is noticed. Potassium is used to enhance your lawn's resistance to disease, drought, wear, and cold weather. An increase in potassium during fall and winter fertilizations and times of new planting and renewing old lawns is noticed.

Seasonal treatment

In order to keep the lawn in best shape it should be maintained properly and need of the essential nutrients is required. They are to be treated differently according to the season. In spring season, it is to be treated with nitrogen rich fertilizer. The green explosion may please to your eye but it encourages outrageous top growth to the detriment of the lawn roots. A fertilizer should be lighter on the nitrogen and heavier on the phosphorus and it makes the roots strong. .
During the heat of summer, nitrogen is more likely to burn your lawn than during other times of the year. Nitrogen burn is particularly likely if your lawn is drought-damaged. Slow-release and combination fertilizers are generally better than fast-release fertilizers and are, as a result, a little pricier. Excess fertilizer that washes off lawns is wasted and harmful. In rainy season do not fertilizer the garden, as the rain pushes the fertilizers towards the drainage. In such case the fertilizer has to be applied again. Avoid using water-soluble, quick-release nitrogen, such as ammonium nitrate, urea ammonium phosphate, or potassium chloride.
Effect of pool chlorine
Chlorine is a popular pool sterilizer because it effectively kills most microorganisms that can contaminate your pool. But lawns and pools can be an awkward combination. The pool chlorine levels aren't high enough to do real damage to the lawn. The nitrogen in lawn fertilizer can combine with pool chlorine to create chlorine compounds, which interfere with the chlorine's ability to sanitize your pool. While diluted pool chlorine isn't a problem, concentrated chlorine can kill some of the bacteria that are essential to plants' ability to get nutrients from the soil. One has to be careful while adding chlorine to the pool, as spills at concentrated levels could damage the grass in the yard.

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