Using Crabgrass Preventer - Without Food (Year 2)
Nat added this bag that you see at the top of this post to one of her recent orders from Amazon. It is a bag of Scott's Crabgrass and Grassy Weed Preventer under the "Halts" product name. It does NOT have lawn food in it - which is fairly uncommon in most crabgrass preventers. You can find this stuff here at Amazon (this is NOT an affiliate link. I don't do that...) for $16.99. I used this same product last year - and sought it out because of the fact that it doesn't have lawn food in the mix. Last year, I held off on feeding my lawn until Memorial Day and I'm thinking that I'm going to do the same. I laid out my full 2020 lawn care plan here in this post from February . In that post , you'll note that I'm calling for an application of this pre-emergent in "April" versus "mid-April". And that's because that I'm going to turn to - once again - Michigan State University and their "Growing Degree Days...