Once your lawn has been diagnosed with insects, the first thing you want to do is kill the insects and then fertilize. If you fertilize first without putting on an insect control, you’re just going to propagate insects.

So, the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to kill the Billbugs and then we want to fertilize, and in the heat of summer we want to fertilize with a very slow release fertilizer something high and humus that will help hold water in the soil.

Be sure to follow the instructions on the bag. This particular application calls for a setting of four and a half with this particular spreader. Just pour your material into the hopper and then you want to make sure that you’re adequately overlapped so that you get the entire lawn area.

I like to go around the perimeter along one time and then for then parallel allow the rest of the time. Once you’ve applied your insect control, you want to water it in well and then within a day or two you can fertilize.

In the heat of summer you don’t want to use a chemical fertilizer that’s high in nitrogen it can actually cause more problems in your lawn and good. So, we use a very slow released organic based fertilizer.

Humus based products are very high in minerals and trace minerals and those are the things that help a grass to be very healthy. If a large area of your lawn has been killed out by insects or disease then it would be ideal to rake it out and over seed it.

Join me next time for the most important ingredient for a healthy lawn and proper watering.