Lawn Care & Cleanup
Maintain A Clean, Green & Healthy Yard
Lawn Mowing
Our basic visit consists of mowing, string trimming around all objects and surface areas bordered by grass, then blowing clippings off pavement. During the regular mowing season grass clippings are discharged and not bagged. We use the process of grasscycling which is the practice of leaving these clippings on the turf when mowing.
The aesthetics to your lawn are important to us, and any grass clumping will be addressed with a blower to evenly distribute clippings.
Lawn Aeration
Lawn Aeration is the mechanical process of removing small cores from the turf and soil. This process is covered over the entire lawn providing many benefits to the turf and soil.
Benefits of Lawn Aeration include:
- Improved water absorption
- Reduce soil compaction
- Stronger and deeper grass roots
- Enhanced thatch breakdown
- Enhanced heat and drought stress tolerance
- Allows air, nutrients & water to better reach the root zone
Dethatching
Thatch is a layer of decomposing and dead vegetation just above the soil surface. All lawns have thatch layers, and for the health of the lawn it’s good to retain a thatch layer of about a ¼ inch. However when this layer builds up to a thickness of a ½ inch of greater it begins to choke out the lawn preventing air, sun light, and water from reaching the turfs root zone. A thickness of a ½ inch or greater also increases the risk of a harmful insect and disease infestation.
To remove this thatch layer we use a power rake that combs through the turf down to the top soil surface. This mechanical process will pull up the debris to the top of the lawn.
Lawn Fertilizing
Our lawn care program consists of a granular fertilizer which contains a slow release technology providing a continuous release of nitrogen effective for 6 weeks or more. In addition to while applying the granular fertilizer we apply a blanket spray application of our broadleaf herbicide. This eliminates all broadleaf weeds and prevents grassy weeds from establishing.
- Improve nutrition within the soil providing fertile ground
- Helps eliminate weeds and prevent grassy weeds
- Thicker, greener, and more attractive lawn
- More stress resistant lawn
- Improve root system
Hedge Trimming
Trimming shrubs on an annual or bi-annual basis is recommended to maintain the health and shape of the plantings. This will help prevent them from becoming overgrown and overtaking a landscape.
We offer two types of trimming:
- Selective: Individually pruning parts of each planting to help retain/reduce size while maintaining an informal natural look.
- Shearing: Typically done with a mechanical hedge trimmer; trimming the outer foliage to a formal geometric form.
Spring/Fall Cleanup
After the harsh winters of Wisconsin you might find all sorts of debris after the snow melted away. A spring clean up will help prepare your lawn and garden beds for the season ahead.
A Spring/Fall clean up is important to sustaining a healthy lawn and garden. Neglecting a clean up can leave your lawn with excessive debris suffocating the turf and other plantings.
- Dead-wooding necessary perennials & ornamental grasses
- Lawn Cleanup of all debris; down branches, sticks, leaves
- Blow out of all garden beds of debris