Dethatching - Helping your Lawns Natural Recycling Process
Excessive Thatch blocks the light force your grass needs to grow healthy and thick. Thatch creates a dense mat of tightly compacted,partially decomposed organic matter which blankets the lawn keeping air, water, and fertilizers from flowing down to the root zone
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Core Aeration - The Answer to a More Beautiful Healthy Lawn
Core Aeration is the removal of small cores of soil to reduce soil compaction, specially designed hollow coring tins, that when rolled over your lawn, pull out small "plugs" allowing your lawn to breath. Aeration has many benefits; it allows air, water, and fertilizers to reach the root zone. Aeration provides a lodging place for seed when overseeding and saves watering due to reduced run off. Core Aeration is essintial for a healthy root system and a more beautiful lawn.
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MOWING TO DROWN OUT WEEDS
Mow high. Encourage grass to crowd out the weeds by waiting until grass is 4 1/2 inches tall and then cutting it to no shorter than 3 inches. This is hard to get used to at first but it really works. Cutting grass shorter (more than 1/3 of the blade) only stresses it out and gives encroaching weeds the advantage. Leaving the clippings on the lawn will act as a fertilizer. They will not attribute to the thatch layer as they are made up of mostly water they will dissolve into your lawn in no time.
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OVERSEEDING
Ideally, it should be combined with Core Aeration for better germination rates, WHO NEEDS IT? Customers whose lawns are not as thick as their potential. Customers with small thin or bare spots caused by insect and grub damage, pet damage or traffic. If you want a stronger thicker lawn because you have chosen not to use pesticides.Overseeding should be performed on an annual basis to successfully grow a thicker insect and disease resistant lawn. This service should be done in spring or fall.
Thick lawns are a natural weed resistant and help fill in small bare spots . The result is a thicker, greener, weed free lawn in a shorter time.
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