Lawn Care Treatments
Do you have trouble with weeds? Do you have dead spots? Would you like to transform your lawn and make it thick and green grass? Your lawn is more than just dirt and grass. It's an extension of your home. How your lawn looks impacts the drive by curb appeal, the value and the usability of your yard. A good lawn mower is key, but it takes more than lawn mowing to get a beautiful stand of grass. But here's the good news...a good looking lawn with great turf is fairly easy to obtain. On this page we'll give you the 5 seasonal treatments that result in a good looking lawn. In no time at all, with good lawn care, you'll look like the neighborhood sod farm.
The 5 Necessary Lawn Treatments1. In the spring, right before the temperature in your area consistently stays above 50 degrees F, treat your lawn with fertilizer that contains a pre-emergent crabgrass treatment. This will stop crabgrass and similar weeds before their old seed from last year germinates. It is critical to stop crab grass type weeds before their seed germinates. The fertilizer feeds the grass which is hungry after a long winters nap. 2. About a month later, you have cut your grass 2-3 times, and here comes the broadleaf weeds. They take up space and grass can't grow where they are and they steal precious water and fertilizer from your grass. Kill the weeds. Do this by fertilizing your lawn with a fertilizer that contains a broadleaf weed killer. 3. About 6 weeks later the hotter temperatures are coming - and so are the insects. If you have moles it is because the you have insects. Kill the insects and the moles leave because their is no food. Apply a fertilizer that contains an insecticide. Many people want to skip this step - don't. Insects will destroy your grass roots and leaves and attract moles. 4. As the summer ends and the cooler fall temperatures just arrive, apply a late summer early fall fertilizer with weed killer. The combination spring and fall weed killing really let's your yard grow grass, not weeds. 5. It's time to put your yard to sleep for a long winters nap. Just like a baby, feed it before you put it to bed. This is an often overlooked critical feeding. You don't need to treat for weeds or insects. Just a winter feeding. In the spring your lawn will wake up with nourishment, ready to grow.
Self Lawn Treatments Versus A Professional Lawn ServiceFor years I was a do-it-yourselfer. I would buy the bags of Scotts products and the spreader and then try to put the stuff down without missing a spot. I then learned the best weed killing comes from liquids, not dry powders. Then I watched my spreaders corrode and fall apart. Then I noticed I was spending more time working on the yard than sitting in it. So I let a few professional lawn care services like Scotts LawnService, TruGreen and some local lawn services quote. Today I use a local company called LCS (Lawn Care Services) and they are about the cost of me buying just the fertilizers. That's right...I was doing it myself, getting worse results and spending my time to save no money. You may find the pros will negotiate with you, so don't accept the first quote. My lawn looks better since I switched to a pro.
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