If you have a lawn with an installed sprinkler system, the company that handles that for you will likely come and blow out your lines before winter. This prevents your system from freezing and it’s very important to prevent damage to the system and the sprinkler heads. If your sprinkler heads still have water and they come on during a freeze, they’ll likely burst.
This will cause you to have a water leak and a broken system that will necessitate having someone come out and repair it. Avoid this situation if you can. It’s a royal pain to have your system dug up and replaced. Your yard can become a sheet of ice, too.
Make sure that you call your sprinkler service and schedule this yearly blow-out to be done. If the weather changes before you get them done or a freeze comes very early in the season and unexpectedly, you can follow some simple steps to ensure that your system isn’t damaged. We’ll tell you where to find that information in the steps below:
Top 3 Maintenance Tips
- Get your lawn equipment put away and winterized properly. If you’ve got a mower, tiller, edger, etc., these all require some basic maintenance. Don’t store them with gasoline in them. Gasoline can go bad after just a few short months. You should also change the oil so that when you pull them out next spring, they are clean, with fresh oil and gasoline. They’ll be ready to go when you are, and they’ll also last you for much longer when you take care of them before putting them away.
- Ensure that your sprinkler system has been blown out appropriately, but in the event that your pro team hasn’t gotten out yet and a hard freeze is expected, you can follow simple steps for any Denver sprinkler system. Call them and see if they can come out and do a blowout for you also. Just make sure that you follow the steps to turn your sprinkler heads off and prevent them from freezing and bursting.
- As for your yard itself, now is the time to aerate it and fertilize for the winter. When the snow melts next spring, your yard will already be one leg up on the rest of the neighborhood when you’ve properly fed it for its long winter’s nap. Rake it well and spread grass seed that will be ready to erupt in the spring and quickly fill in your lush grass while the rest of the neighborhood is still bare and muddy in places. You will be the house that everyone is looking at and smiling, instead of being the eyesore lawn that everyone whispers about.
Caring for a lawn prior to the winter is not a problem if you just follow some basic rules. The main issue is to ensure that you’ve gotten that sprinkler system taken care of because that one is going to cause you some money to fix it.