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Growing Season
When to put down pre-emergent, how to feed fescue and Bermuda, and what a soil test tells you, for lawns around Nashville.
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Notes from the turf, season by season
Written by Michael Blair, owner of Nashville's Weed and Feed, from the trade’s own practice.
October 19, 2026
Crabgrass Already Up? Why Tiller Count Decides It
Crabgrass that is already up can still be sprayed, but the size of the plant decides how well it works. Counting tillers tells you whether one application will do or whether it is a fight you should plan differently next year.
Read itOctober 12, 2026
Why Weeds Come Back After Weed Killer
When weeds return a few weeks after a spray, the product rarely just failed. It is usually new seedlings, old roots, a weed the spray was never going to touch, or the weather on the day it went down.
Read itOctober 8, 2026
Clover in the Lawn: Leave It or Clear It Out
White clover is usually a sign the grass is hungry or thin, not a sign of a weed emergency. Here is how to read it, when to leave it, and how to clear it from fescue or bermuda.
Read itSeptember 28, 2026
Fall Weed Control Around a New Overseed
Perennial weeds are easiest to kill in the fall, right when a fescue lawn is full of tender new seedlings. Getting both right is a question of order and patience.
Read itSeptember 21, 2026
Grubs and the Lawn That Peels Up Like Carpet
Grub damage looks like drought until you tug on the grass and it comes up in a sheet. The larvae ate the roots, and the raccoons and skunks are telling you where.
Read itSeptember 14, 2026
Does a Nashville Lawn Need Lime
Lime goes on a lot of Nashville lawns every fall because it always has. On limestone ground, some of those lawns needed it and some are being pushed the wrong way.
Read itSeptember 7, 2026
Getting Rid of Nutsedge and Wild Violet
If one weed keeps coming back through every treatment, it is probably one of these two. Neither responds to what works on everything else.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Pre-Emergent Timing Decides Your Whole Year
Pre-emergent is the one lawn application you cannot make up later, and the window here can open in February.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
When to Feed a Fescue Lawn Here
The autumn feeds build the lawn. Spring feeding mostly buys top growth you then have to mow.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Identifying What Is Actually in Your Lawn
Spraying a broadleaf herbicide on nutsedge does nothing, and it is the most common wasted application here.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Brown Patch and Middle Tennessee Humidity
Brown patch is the defining fescue disease here, and evening watering is the most common thing that feeds it.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Aeration, Thatch and Compacted Clay
Clay compacts under ordinary use, and roots in compacted soil cannot go where the water is.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Organic or Synthetic Lawn Treatment
Organic lawn care works and it works on a different timescale, which is the part that gets undersold.
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Lawns in Nashville and 64 further towns across 12 counties get our treatments, as does any Middle Tennessee lawn up to about an hour out from Nashville.
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