Wednesday 24 December 2014

Need for Lawn Aeration


Your lawn needs to breathe…in fact, it deserves to breathe like you and me do…There are various times when your lawn tends to get compact- when you step on your lawn; when you mow your grass; or when kids play over it…and this makes it important for the homeowner to contact a professional lawn aeration service, may be annually or bi-annually.
Need for lawn aeration:
Aeration makes your soil loose which is important for several reasons:
  • It allows the vital nutrients, fertilizer, water and even air to move into the soil and reach the root area.
  • It promotes a good number of microorganisms that can breakdown lawn thatch. To elaborate further, thatch is a buildup of dead grass that needs to be removed to help the soil breathe. This thatch can block nutrients and water from reaching your lawn, thus making the lawn more susceptible to diseases.
When and how often the lawn needs aeration varies from soil to soil. You need to identify the variety of grass sown in your lawn and decide on aeration accordingly. By hiring a professional team for lawn aeration, lawn plugs may be removed and the compacted soil is allowed to expand into empty spaces as the grass grows. There are hand aerators also available to do the needful. A professional company would have all the requisite aerating equipment to provide the most effective aeration. An efficient aeration process is when the soil plugs are actually removed and not simply pushed deep inside…
All in all, it is this process of aeration that increases water penetration and air permeability, which in turn would improve the turf growth, by and large.

Sunday 21 December 2014

Factors that affect law maintenance service cost

The costs of having a lawn mowed and maintained professionally will depend on what range of services you want to avail. There are some people simply want their lawns treated for weeds and get it fertilized, while others want to go for services that include edging, mowing, pruning, and complete maintenance which includes several other tasks.  They need more full-fledged landscaping work done.

That is why the payment scale will depend on which all services you use and what combination of it. A top cut lawn care company will first take a look at the lawn and come up with an estimate depending on the amount of work that has to be performed. The estimate will be provided by checking the configuration and size of the yard. The company may also suggest which particular services are best recommended for it and accordingly calculate yearly or monthly charges.

If you simply need your landscape mowed you can easily find lawn care companies in any city very easily. Although there are amateurs who also offer their services but if you don’t want to compromise on the quality, then go only for a top cut lawn care company. Most of the homeowners often want their yard to be edged, cleaned up, mowed along with shrubs and trees pruned.



The full-fledged services will comprise of all these tasks and more. The company will also do chemical treatment on a regular basis to control weed and to improve the quality of grass. However, you need to know that if you want services encompassing of all these tasks then according the service charge will be higher. It could cost anywhere around one thousand dollars or so. Under the full service package you can also get maintenance work like controlling weed, fertilizing, removing debris, leaves, plantation of seasonal flowers and lot more.