ISN'T IT LATE?

It's April 18, is it late to do my spring fertilizer and crabgrass preventer??

Absolutely not!
First of all, how does your lawn look? The nutrients stored up by the lawn's roots from your fall fertilizer give your lawn a steady supply of food to green up and start growing in the spring without a surge of growth that you would see from traditional "quick release" fertilizer often used in early spring lawn feeding.
As far as crabgrass goes - there is still plenty of time to put down that preventative application. Even with those 80 degree days we have not had the consistent heat that would warm the soil enough for crabgrass germination. And it's still only mid April, temperatures were in the 30s last night. The soil is cold!!

Best of all, with our Weed Man program, the fertilizer we apply feeds the lawn for 6-8 weeks, AND we make a second application of crabgrass preventer so that later when the soil does warm enough, we make sure that crabgrass is not an issue for your lawn.

Bottom line, our lawns are greening and growing, and we have no worry about crabgrass!

Forsythia in bloom! Does that mean CRABGRASS?

Yes, forsythia is in bloom! NO, that does not mean you have crabgrass already! While flowering shrubs do act as indicators for things happening in our landscapes, crabgrass does not sprout until the soil warms. So there is plenty of time for your crabgrass application. In fact putting crabgrass preventer too early without planning a "booster" application can mean having crabgrass break out later in the season. Managing crabgrass and weeds requires working around the weather, proper timing and knowing the way each product works!