Arlington County. The skylines of Arlington's Courthouse and Rosslyn neighborhoods, with the Georgetown and Downtown neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. immediately past them. The county accounts for most of Virginia's border with the District.
Watering and mowing alone will not make a healthy lawn. It must be fertilized. We have included a starter fertilizer in the mixture applied, but it is only sufficient to supply enough nutrients for about 30 to 45 days. It is important for the development of a healthy lawn that a fertilization program be started at this time.
Fertilizing lawns, garden beds and shrubberies is something we do because of a vague notion that plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for health and vigor, an idea reinforced with some formidable marketing efforts by fertilizer companies. âThe one thing we do in gardening, we fertilize mindlessly without really knowing what we are doing,â said Jeff Lowenfels, a veteran garden writer and author based in Anchorage.