We have a fairly big yard here..about 38-40k sf of lawn. .. Every single mer itlooks good in the spring.. like crap I. July /Aug then good again in the fall. I know much depends on watering ..and we have irritation that runs virtually every day in the summer. We also pay a company to do the fertilizer applications. ..who I'm not very pleased with their results. The lawn appears to look a bit worse every year..instead of better every year. A friend of mine has a much smaller lawn and he does his fert by himself.. all he uses is starter fertilizer all spring/summer and fall.. nothing else.. he does 5 or 6 applications a near and his lawn looks incredible... anyone else have a system that they use similar to this ?