Garden centers sell lawn fertilizer by the bagful, and they want to move the product.

The better course is to apply lawn fertilizer once a year, late in the season, possibly around Thanksgiving time.

For this reason, an application of lawn fertilizer is now crucial.

It should, in fact, be the only application of lawn fertilizer during the entire year.

"But unless you get a mole inside a plant, it's hard to tell if the chemicals are for lawn fertilizer or weapons."

Lime lawns; if lawn fertilizer was not spread late last fall, then do so now.

Those include the runoff from storm water, which includes lawn fertilizers and animal wastes.

Good gardeners are learning about the trend of just one fall application of lawn fertilizer, too.

Applications of lawn fertilizer now plus lime, if it has not been limed in a long time, should help.

Tradition has it that lawn fertilizer should be spread by the end of November.