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Every fall we hear the same thing from homeowners across Becker County: "We are already done at the lake for the season, so we are going to skip the last fertilizer application and pick it up again next spring."
We understand the thinking. But here is what that decision is actually costing you — and why the last fertilization of the year is not really the last application of the year at all. It is the first application of next year.
What Your Lawn Is Doing Right Now
Most homeowners think of their lawn as something that shuts down in fall. It does not. As temperatures cool in September and October, cool-season grasses like Kentucky bluegrass and fine fescue — the turf that makes up Becker County lawns — shift into one of their most active and important phases of the entire year.
Shoot growth above ground slows down. But root growth continues. And beneath the surface, the grass plant is doing something critical: it is moving carbohydrates and nutrients from the leaf tissue down into the root system for storage. Those stored reserves are what the plant will draw on to survive a Minnesota winter — and they are what fuel the burst of strong, green growth you see the following spring.
The University of Minnesota Extension is direct about what this means for fertilization: applying nitrogen in fall helps the...
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