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Fall Fertilizer Cutoff for Warm-Season Lawns

Professionals on golf courses may apply light nitrogen into fall with calibrated equipment. Homeowners should stop by September 1 in Atlanta. Late applications waste money and risk disease. Warm-season grasses absorb little nitrogen pre-dormancy.

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