Your lawn provides a big part of your yard's beauty, with its cool soft green covering that you can enjoy during the heat of summer. However, at the end of the season, your lawn is going to need some special treatments to keep it healthy and free of harmful chemicals. The following provides you with organic lawn care recommendations for fall lawn maintenance to your yard for continued health and protection from damage.

Stay On Top of Leaves 

During the summer growing season, your priority may have been staying on top of weeds to remove them from the lawn and keep them from taking over areas of your grass. However, in the fall when the temperatures cool down and the hours of sunlight reduce, some trees in your yard will begin to lose their leaves. This can pose a hazard to your lawn if the leaves fall and you don't remove them. 

It can be easy to neglect this task, but it is essential that you continually rake up any fallen leaves within a few days of their settling on your lawn. The longer the leaves sit on your lawn, the more they will smother your grass, preventing it from receiving sunlight and air. And if the leaves become wet and heavy, this can further cause damage to your lawn, as the leaves promote mold, fungus, and other lawn diseases. And if you leave them on your lawn all winter, plan to have dead spots on your lawn where they were laying all winter. 

So plan to rake them up at least once each week during the period they are falling from your trees. Use a rake to collect them and bag them up or mulch them for later composting. You can rent a mulch machine or use your mower if it has a mulching setting. 

Apply Lawn Treatments

After mowing your lawn in the fall, you should plan to feed your lawn and get it ready for a winter of cool temperatures, less sunlight, and dormancy. When spring arrives again, your lawn is going to need a boost of nutrients from the soil to get it growing healthy during a period of heavy regrowth, so plan to apply good-quality lawn food. Look for an organic lawn fertilizer that you can apply and it will slowly release to the roots of your lawn. Your lawn can begin taking up some of the nutrients during fall to build strong roots and recover from any drought stress, but then it can continue to use it over winter and into the spring.

Spread the organic fertilizer onto your lawn in an even manner just after you have mowed, as this will help the fertilizer reach the roots of your lawn. If there is no moisture in the forecast the next day, water your lawn to help prevent lawn damage and get the fertilizer working.