12 Ways to Keep Your Lawn Green | Lowe’s (2024)

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Apply iron-rich fertilizer

Applying high-iron fertilizers feeds your lawn and helps it warm up faster, accelerating the greenup process. Bonus benefits of Iron Boost? It's supercharged with iron citrate for rapid, deep greening. Plus, it promotes healthy grass growth and corrects iron deficiencies.

Apply iron-rich fertilizer

Applying high-iron fertilizers feeds your lawn and helps it warm up faster, accelerating the greenup process. Bonus benefits of Iron Boost? It's supercharged with iron citrate for rapid, deep greening. Plus, it promotes healthy grass growth and corrects iron deficiencies.

Fertilize Your Lawn

Lawn fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. These nutrients support the grass. That way, it grows strong from the roots and stays green, healthy and lush. Nitrogen is especially important for getting beautiful green grass.

Feed your soil.

The key to a healthy lawn is growing it in soil with plenty of organic matter and alive with microorganisms. Apply a thin layer of weed-free compost over the lawn in the spring and in the fall. Water gently to help the nutrients and microbes migrate into the soil.

When overseeding your lawn, a starter fertilizer such as Pennington UltraGreen Starter Fertilizer 22-23-4 helps promote vigorous root growth for the fast establishment of new grasses. For established lawns, Pennington UltraGreen Lawn Fertilizer 30-0-4 provides the nitrogen your lawn needs for thick, green grass.

Epsom salt is an organic compound that is full of beneficial minerals for lawns. Iron in Epsom salt, for example, helps grasses to grow healthy and strong. Meanwhile, the magnesium in Epsom salt balances the PH level in your grasses so that it doesn't become too acidic.

Start by raking dead grass spots to loosen the soil and remove the expired blades. Lightly rake the healthy areas to get rid of dying grass and aerate the soil for root stimulation. Once you have the land prepared, take a rotary seed spreader and lay down new grass seed over the dead spots.

Nitrogen Fertiliser makes Grass Green Fast

Adding nitrogen through slow-release fertiliser is the easiest, safest and best way to achieve this.

In rare cases, sugar makes for a decent lawn fertilizer, though not in the traditional sense. Sugar adds no necessary nutrients to the mix but it limits nitrogen absorption. In most cases, you want to give plants ready access to nitrogen but without overdoing it.

Mix equal parts ammonia and Epsom salts, and disperse this mixture throughout your lawn. Ammonia is a great source of nitrogen, which will help your grass achieve a healthier, greener color; and the Epsom salts contain magnesium sulfate, which will help your grass retain water, and reduce your lawn's thirst for water.

What two colors make grass green? ›

By mixing these primary colors together in different combinations you can create all the colors of the rainbow. The colors that make green are yellow + blue. If you have primary yellow and primary blue in your paint set, you'll be able to mix green!

You can use any type of granulated or powdered sugar on your lawn, and will need one pound of sugar per 10.5 sq. feet of lawn. The easiest way to apply it evenly is by using a lawn spreader, but if you don't have one, sprinkling it on by hand—taking the time to make it as even as possible—works, too.

If soil issues caused your yellow lawn, you can amend the soil with compost. This can help fix problems such as poor drainage and proper pH levels. Adding fertilizer can also help repair a yellow lawn. A good fertilizer product can replace nutrients missing in the soil, such as nitrogen.

Can I use sugar as fertilizer? Sugar is not typically used to fertilize a lawn, but as Tom suggests, it does have the power to ensure your grass appears greener. This is because sugar is a carbon that will intake excess nitrogen and promote a better a balance in the soil.

Seed and Feed

One of the most effective ways to get your grass to grow quickly is to fertilize right after you plant. For use on all grass types, reach for Scotts® Turf Builder® Starter® Food for New Grass, which helps grass grow up to 70 percent thicker and 35 percent more quickly (vs. unfed).