So, in Georgia, you have your pre-emergent down, you've sprayed out all of your remaining summer and early fall weeds, if you have cool season grass, you've either aerified and or over/inter-seeded your greens, tee boxes, driving range, or yard(s).... Now What?
Relax! Get ready for cool, sunshine filled days outdoors... wait, not just yet....
If you want an absolute PERFECT turf, you have another ap or two to go... if you have the resources. A winterizing fertilizer for both warm season (bermudagrass/zoysia/centipede etc..) and cool season (bentgrass, annual or perennial ryegrass, or fescue), may be used to help strengthen your roots and help the turf store carbs for the wintertime. Winterizing fertilizers also typically contain iron, which will give you a nice green color until the first frost, or dormancy.
What is important to know about winterizing fertilizers, mostly for warm season turf species like bermudagrass, is to keep the first number, or Nitrogen low and keep the last number or Potash about 3 times higher or more than the N.
Typically, I sell the following winterizing fertilizers at the following recommended rates:
5-10-31 with 10% Iron - 3.5 lbs per 1,000 sq feet or about 150 lbs per acre.
5-0-20 with 10% Iron - 5 lbs per 1,000 sq feet or about 215 lbs per acre.
5-10-20 with 10% Iron - 5 lbs per 1,000 sq feet or about 215 lbs per acre.
There is one more ap you might consider for late fall, and that is one more application of fungicides and insecticides. Depending on your turfgrass species, the soil type and the level of quality you wish to achieve, there are many products available on the market to control cool season insects and fungus.
Hope ya'll are having a great fall and go Dawgs!
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