It's March, and the changing weather has brought us lovely spring-like temperatures and sunshine! Lawn care businesses in Middlesex and Monmouth counties in New Jersey are preparing to start their work. If you're a homeowner, you might be searching for a lawn care company to take care of this for you, or if you're a DIY enthusiast, you're likely ready to purchase your first bags of fertilizer and weed control.
Inevitably in the early weeks of March I start seeing the larger national companies out making their first lawn care applications (usually a crabgrass preventer combined with fertilizer) and I shake my head. IT'S TOO EARLY.
THERE... I'VE SAID IT... IT'S TOO EARLY! Even though I want my team at LDS Lawncare to start working and generating revenue, it's simply not the right time to begin lawn care treatments. The larger companies have thousands of clients, and if they wait for the perfect time to start applications, they won't be able to complete them all on time. They can't serve all their customers in such a narrow time frame and so they're forced to start on a particular calendar date. In my 28 year tenure of providing lawn care to residents of Middlesex and Monmouth counties in New Jersey.... I've seen the nationals applying the Crabgrass control when the ground was frozen and a handful of times during snow flurries.
The general guideline is to apply pre-emergent crabgrass treatment in early spring, when forsythia flowers bloom or soil temperatures reach about 55°F. This timing ensures application before crabgrass seeds germinate. LDS lawn care applies just before forsythia flowers, when buds are swollen, allowing a 3 to 4 week application window for full efficacy.
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