Lawn Treatments

Early Spring Application: This application includes pre-emergent control for many grassy weeds including the annoying weed crabgrass. This application is done prior to crabgrass germination and creates a barrier in the turf prohibiting this eye soar from entering your turf. The pre-emergent weed control is blended with a premium dry granular fertilizer allowing for maximum feed.

Spring Application: Blanket selective herbicide application over the entire lawn to provide broadleaf weed control for hundreds of annoying weeds. If present, dandelions and other broadleaf weeds will wilt and die shortly after treatment.

Early Summer Application: Consists of a premium dry granular fertilizer with slow release nitrogen to provide steady food for your lawn. Broadleaf weed control is applied as necessary to take care of any remaining broadleaf weeds that may have emerged in the lawn.

Late Summer Application: Here again we apply more slow release nitrogen for maximum feed. If broadleaf weeds are present, the will be sprayed dead as needed.

Fall Application: This application is probably the most beneficial for your lawn. While your lawn is preparing for winter by storing food and nutrients in its root system, it is important to feed it what it wants. This promotes the health of the grass plants and ensures they will be ready to green up early next spring.

Insect & Disease Control: If an insect or disease becomes present in your lawn, we will notify you of the problem and rectify it. While lawns in the Hagerstown area are susceptible to certain insects and diseases, they are usually only treated on an as needed basis. White Grubs are the most common problem encountered in lawns in our area and can easily be treated with an insecticide. Two good indicators that you have a grub problem are the presence of moles looking for food (they cause small bumps in long lines through the grass) and Japanese and May/June Beetle damage to tree and shrub leaves in summer and early fall (they are the adult form of grubs and like to eat foliage close to home).

What is Aeration?: Aeration is achieved by using a gas powered machine that removes thousands of small plugs of soil from you lawn that has become compacted over time. Aeration also helps to break down thatch that has built up in the lawn. Thatch in a lawn is like a thatch roof on a house. It repels water. This layer of thatch prevents water, fertilizer and grass seed from over seeding to reach the soil. Aeration breaks down this barrier allowing the water, fertilizer and grass seed to reach the soil where it does the most good.

Each year your lawn should be aerated to help relieve compaction of the soil. Which will allow your lawn to receive the most benefit from the rain that it absorbs (instead of running off due to compacted soil) and from our lawn treatments thus improves the appearance, health and beauty of your lawn.

Here are the Benefits of Aeration:

1. Improved appearance and health of your lawn.
2. Relieves soil compaction to help reduce run off of rain water and fertilizer.
3. Helps to break down thatch
4. Stimulates the roots of the grass to grow deeper to help during dry spells and helps keep the grass healthier.
5. Allow the lawn to recover faster after a dry spell or summer stress.
6. Allow the grass to receive the most benefit from our lawn treatments.

Please call or e-mail us for a free consultation and estimate.

All Lawn Treatments are completed by a Maryland Department of Agriculture Licensed Applicator