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Spring may still be weeks away in Utah, but the best lawns start with preparation before the growing season begins. In this guide, Stewarts Lawn Care & Pest Control explains how winter impacts your lawn, why early weed prevention and soil preparation matter.

If you’re tired of looking out your window at a dry and patchy lawn, follow the advice in this article to bring your lawn back to life this spring. This post will answer the following common questions about Utah lawns.

Utah lawns need deep, infrequent watering based on temperature (about 1–2 inches/week in spring/fall and 2.5–3 inches/week in summer), with longer run times for rotary heads, extra care during extreme heat, morning or evening watering.

Utah lawns do best with cool-season grasses like Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, fine fescue, or turf-type tall fescue, each with trade-offs in drought tolerance, appearance, and maintenance, while warm-season grasses like bermudagrass are generally less suitable.

Spring lawn care in Utah can be stressful because several lawn diseases often show up after winter. The most common ones are pink snow mold, gray snow mold, necrotic ring spot, and ascochyta. Each has different symptoms and treatments, but most are linked to cool, wet, or rapidly changing weather conditions typical in Utah.

Spring tree fertilization replenishes nutrients lost in manicured landscapes, helping trees grow stronger, healthier, and better prepared for summer and winter stress. An arborist-approved fertilization program that improves nutrient absorption, supports steady growth, and protects the environment.

Sunscald damage happens to trees in winter and early spring when the sun heats up the bark before the tree is ready. Young trees are especially susceptible to sunscald damage, so you should take steps to prevent it early on.

Did your trees struggle with aphids, scale bugs, or another type of insect infestation last year? Stewart’s offers treatments that can help. Some insects, like scale, are unaffected by most tree pest sprays.

Whether you’re selling your house soon or planning to live there for the rest of your life, improving (or maintaining) your front yard should be a priority.

We spend a lot of time refining our front yards—for good reason. Your front lawn is the first thing someone is going to see when they visit your home, and an aesthetically pleasing front yard makes a great first impression.

Many homeowners along the Wasatch front deal with a variety of household pests on a regular basis—black widows and other spiders, boxelder bugs, ants, wasps, and yellow jackets, for example.

If your tree’s branches and leaves start to shrivel and turn brown, it may be struggling with fire blight. Fire blight is a bacterial disease that affects a variety of trees, but pear and apple trees are susceptible.

Are the leaves on your trees discolored or full of holes? Your trees might be struggling with a spider mite infestation. Spider mites are a tree pest that does major damage in the summer months.

Does your lawn have uneven patches of yellow grass, even though you water correctly? Your lawn might have a sod webworm infestation. Sod webworms are a type of grub that can damage the lawn.

You might be tempted to use the $50 aeration service coming door-to-door this fall—think twice before saying yes. Services like that aim to make a quick buck without understanding the potential risks.