Fall Garden Tips

September and October are ideal months to either overseed or reseed your lawn.  The temperatures are optimal for cool season grasses like fescue to really perform.  However, October is also our driest month so be sure to water regularly until the new lawn is established.  Make sure, also that you fertilize your established lawn during this time and that you mow your lawn to 2 1/2" to 3" or taller.  The taller the height of your lawn, the more vigorous and weed resistant it will be.

Editor's note: Susan Hamilton is an Old North Knoxville neighbor, a board member, one of our Empowerment Zone Board members, a new mother and an Associate Professor and Director of the UT Institute of Agriculture Gardens at the Department of Plant Sciences and Landscape Systems at the University of Tennessee.  She is also chair of the neighborhood beautification committee who's work can be seen all around the neighborhood.  If you want to join her and her merry crew in their good works, call Susan at 974-7324.

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