✓ During periods of environmental stress due to high temperatures or a lack of rainfall, raise the mowing height ½ to 1 inch until the stress is eliminated.

✓ Summer higher temps – mow a little higher than usual. Winter lower temps before Spring green up – mow a little shorter than usual.

✓ Avoid frequent, short watering sessions. Deep, infrequent watering in the early mornings (around sunrise) is best & promotes deeper roots (deeper than most weed roots!). The goal is 1″ of water per week during the growing season (irrigation & rainfall).

✓ Don’t water your grass during the hottest part of the day or late at night when it won’t have time to dry during the day.

✓ Don’t over water your grass. Over watering can be just as damaging, if not more, than under watering!

✓ Don’t overfertilize your grass, especially your Centipede Grass!

✓ Never cut more than 1/3 of the grass blade at any one time in a single mowing.

✓ Standing water, soggy soil & leaf pile up on your turf will promote an environment for lawn disease, weeds & insects.

✓ Change the pattern in which you mow every time or every other time.

✓ Compost is not a fertilizer. It feeds the soil. Fertilizer feeds the plants.

✓ Most yards need to be aerated at least once per year (during the growing season).

✓ Before creating new plant beds, remember your lawn mower & if it can easily maneuver in the area.