Winterizing Your Lawn

It's tempting to sneak in one last round of lawn fertilizer before the winter season moves in, but think twice: putting fertilizer on too late can do more harm to your turfgrass than good.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Renovation and Establishment
• Gardening Tips: Winter Lawns

UF/IFAS Publications

• Managing Those Pesky Winter Lawn Weeds (PDF)
• Preparing Your Lawn for Winter (PDF)
• Using the Correct Fertilizer for Your Lawn in the Fall (PDF)
• Winterizer Fertilizer – Not for Florida (PDF)
• Winterizers for Lawns (PDF)

Other Sites

• Coastal Homeowner Landscape and Turf Monthly Update: October--University of Georgia Cooperative Extension (PDF)
• Factual Reasons Not to "Winterize" the Lawn--Alabama Cooperative Extension System
• Fall Fertilization, Good or Bad for My Lawn?--Mississippi State University Extension System
• Winterizing Lawns--Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service