Fall fertilization helps bring your lawn back to life after a tough summer and sets it up for a strong winter.

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Scotts

Scotts Turf Builder WinterGuard Fall Weed & Feed lawn food is formulated to deliver the nutrients lawns need in the fall, repairing damage from the heat and drought of the summer while killing weeds.

Scotts Turf Builder WinterGuard Fall Weed and Feed

Amazon

The Andersons

The Andersons HCU 44-0-0 Humic Coated Urea is developed with exclusive technology that produces 44-0-0 nitrogen granules. These granules are bonded with potassium humate which enhances the soil's biological and chemical properties.

The Andersons HCU 44-0-0 Humic Coated Urea

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7-0-0 GreeNe EfFect Turf & Ornamental Fertilizer Plus 6% Iron is a simple and economical way to correct chlorosis issues in turf and ornamentals. It provides a consistent greening effect on chlorotic plants and provides a deep green color to the turf.

Greene EfFect 7-0-0

Yard Mastery

TurfGrassPro

TurfgrassPro Micros is a liquid fertilizer for turf and ornamentals micronutrients. It is complexed with an organic acid to increase nutrient availability made from iron, manganese, and boron. Use for cool and warm season turf and ornamentals.

Energize

TurfGrassPro Micros

Simple Lawn Solutions

Lawn Energizer is a high-quality chelated iron and micronutrient lawn booster intensified with nitrogen. This enhanced booster is specifically designed to energize your turf and soil to its optimum nutrient levels for maximum health, growth, and color.

6-0-0 Lawn Energizer

Live Earth Products

Blitz 22 Plus from Live Earth is a premium liquid lawn fertilizer. This 22-0-0 formula contains natural, humic acid, three forms of nitrogen, and iron for continuous performance.

Live Earth Products Blitz 22 Plus Premium Turf Fertilizer

Growth Booster is a specifically designed phosphate concentrate energized with Fulvic & Humic acid. Formulated to increase your lawn's vertical and lateral growth along with intensifying reactions with existing minerals in your lawn and soil and help fight mineral deficiencies.

Lawn Booster: Extreme Growth Booster

TurfPlex

TurfPlex (20-2-3) is a high nitrogen fertilizer for heavily used turf areas. Nitrogen is provided in three plant-available forms that produce excellent turf response and color.  Chelated nutrients improve availability and uptake to produce more vigorous turf.

TurfPlex IV (20-2-3) with SeaXtra

Ferti-Lome

Ferti-Lome Lawn Food Plus Iron 24-0-4 will make all kinds of turf green really fast. Use Ferti-Lome Lawn Food Plus Iron 24-0-4 to correct yellowing grass and keep it from yellowing due to an iron deficiency. 

Ferti-Lome Lawn Food Plus Iron 24-0-4

Ferti-Lome Weed-Out Plus Lawn Fertilizer 25-0-4 controls a broad range of post-emergent broadleaf weeds in warm and cool season turf while providing much-needed nutrients to the turf. Within 7-10 days you will see the effects on targeted weeds.

Ferti-Lome Weed-Out Plus Lawn Fertilizer 25-0-4

The Andersons 18-0-4 Fertilizer with 0.426 Barricade Herbicide is a 2 in1 formula that helps protect the lawn while feeding the grass to promote stronger roots and turf. It contains 0.426% Prodiamine as its active ingredient which provides effective, pre-emergent control of unwanted broadleaf and grassy weeds in established turf grasses.

The Andersons 18-0-4 Fertilizer with 0.426 Barricade Herbicide

The Scotts Turf Starter Food gives new grass a quick start by promoting faster root and blade development, and the 24-25-4 fertilizer ratio provides the ideal nutrient balance for your developing lawn.

Scotts Turf Builder Starter

Scotts Turf Builder Lawn Food helps you to build a thick, green lawn. It's a homogeneous fertilizer that provides even greening and feeding.

Scotts Turf Builder Lawn Food

The Andersons New Lawn Starter 20-27-5 is specifically formulated to develop strong and healthy root systems. This formula contains three types of nitrogen - fast, intermediate, and slow reacting to give a quick response and then a steady feeding of nitrogen

The Andersons New Lawn Starter 20-27-5 Fertilizer

Pennington

Pennington 18-24-6 .25 Uflexx Turf Fertilizer is a great way to keep your lawn green consistently all year round. Uflexx is special because it works consistently all year round, no matter the soil temperature or the weather. The secret about Uflexx is that it keeps the nitrogen from leaching from the soil.

Pennington 18-24-6 .25 Uflexx Turf Fertilizer

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PGF Complete 16-4-8 is formulated with the perfect 4-1-2 ratio for high-performance results. It includes iron, micronutrients, and Humic DG for total nutrition.  It provides super-fine particles provide even distribution, with twice the number of particles per square foot.

The Andersons PGF Complete 16-4-8 Fertilizer with Humic DG

Simple Lawn Solutions: 16-4-8 is an all in one balanced Lawn Food Liquid Fertilizer made from high-quality ingredients. 16-4-8 is designed to give your turf green & growth while providing just enough energy for root support, health and strength.

Lawn Food: 16-4-8 Complete Balanced NPK

Ferti-Lome For All Seasons II Lawn Food Plus Crabgrass and Weed Preventer 16-0-8 with the active ingredient of Prodiamine is for selective pre-emergent control of grass and broad-leaf weeds in established lawns.

Ferti-Lome For All Seasons Lawn Food Plus Crabgrass and Weed Preventer

Ferti-Lome Classic Lawn Food 16-0-8 with Slow-Release Nitrogen contains three different kinds of nitrogen that release over time at three different intervals, with one application lasting for up to eight weeks.

Ferti-Lome Classic Lawn Food 16-0-8 with Slow-Release Nitrogen

Yard Mastery FlagShip 24-0-6 Yard contains both immediate-release and slow-release nitrogen along with 3% iron. It’s a winning combination because you get some green now and even more later without pushing too much growth.

Yard Mastery FlagShip 24-0-6

The Yard Mastery Starter Fertilizer contains 12% nitrogen, utilizing premium nitrogen source ammonium sulfate which brings a really nice steely-blue-green color to turf and interacts well with the other elements in the overall blend. It also contains 12% phosphorus and potassium along with 3% iron.

Yard Mastery 12-12-12 Starter Fertilizer

Yard Mastery 6-0-0 Double Dark blend will do just what the name implies: make your lawn double dark green. It also contains 16% nitrogen to force some growth on your lawn.

Yard Mastery 16-0-0 Double Dark

Ecologel

Multi-Purpose Plus with micronutrients is the ultimate product from the Bio-Pro line made by Ecologel, makers of Hydretain and CytoGro/SeaXtra. Its secret sauce is that it contains both! It also contains a small amount of nitrogen and potassium plus micronutrients, including iron.

Ecologel Multi Purpose Plus (4-0-2)

Greenview

GreenView Fairway Formula Spring Fertilizer Weed & Feed plus Crabgrass Preventer performs three tasks: provides a crabgrass preventer, lawn fertilizer, and broadleaf weed killer all rolled into one application for the spring.  It contains 65% slow-release nitrogen providing fertilizer for up to 12 weeks.

GreenView Fairway Formula Spring Fertilizer Weed & Feed plus Crabgrass Preventer

Home Depot

Scotts Turf Builder Triple Action is a lawn fertilizer that combines three functions in one product. It promotes strong grass growth, kills weeds, and prevents the development of damaging insects. It targets dandelions and other broadleaf weeds.

Scotts Turf Builder Triple Action

Protene

Protene Performance Fall Fertilizer is a granular fertilizer designed to help your lawn prepare for winter. It contains 20-0-5 nutrients, plus potassium and chelated iron, which help to strengthen the turf and improve color. Protene Performance Fall Fertilizer utilizes a proprietary sustained-release technology that provides a constant nutrient input to the turf over a 90-day period. 

Protene Performance Fall Fertilizer

GCI Turf Academy

Protene Performance Winter Fertilizer is a granular fertilizer designed to help your lawn survive the winter. It contains 19-0-19 nutrients, plus potassium and chelated iron, which help to strengthen the turf and improve color. Protene Performance Winter Fertilizer utilizes a proprietary sustained-release technology that provides a constant nutrient input to the turf over a 90-day period. 

Protene Performance Winter Fertilizer 

Protene Performance Summer Fertilizer is a granular fertilizer that is designed to keep your turfgrass healthy during periods of stress. It contains 12-0-24 nutrients, plus potassium and chelated iron, which help to improve color and strength. Protene Performance Summer Fertilizer utilizes a proprietary sustained-release technology that provides a constant nutrient input to the turf over a 90-day period. 

Protene Performance Summer Fertilizer

Protene Performance Spring Fertilizer is a granular fertilizer that is designed to help lawns and turfgrasses grow strong and healthy during the spring months. It contains a balanced blend of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, as well as other essential nutrients, to promote vigorous growth and deep green color. It also utilizes a proprietorially unique homogeneous granular technology that helps ensure all essential nutrients are made available over a 90-day period.

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