Spring is the time to get your lawn ready for the long days of summer. A lawn care service can help you complete the necessary tasks so you can rest assured that you will have a lush lawn for summer entertaining.
1. Debris Removal and Cleanup
Even if you raked and swept up everything in the fall, winter has a tendency to blow in more leaves, fallen branches, and other debris. In areas with heavy snow, it can be surprising to the state of the lawn and beds once the snow melts. Your lawn service can come out and clean up everything — a necessary task as a pile of dead leaves can kill part of the lawn once the weather begins to warm.
2. Soil Test and Feeding
One service you should insist upon annually is a soil test. The test lets your lawn care provider know exactly what nutrients are deficient in your soil, which then lets them better develop a fertilizer schedule that addresses both timing and fertilizer type needs. Your lawn service can then begin fertilizing in spring or they may even need to add amendments, like compost, to improve the soil.
3. Pre-emergent Weed Treatment
Getting on top of weeds begins before the first weed sprout emerges in spring. Lawn services typically begin applying pre-emergent fertilizers in late winter and early spring, before weed plants break dormancy. These herbicides kill seeds and young sprouts in the soil so that the weeds are never able to get established. This one task can eliminate many of your summer weed problems.
4. Edging and Border Repair
Shoveling snow can be rough on the edges of your lawn, which tends to get torn up along sidewalks and driveways in winter. Garden borders may also be unkempt, as frost heave pushes edging out of the ground. Your lawn service can edge along sidewalks and driveways to clean up the damage and give the lawn a crisp edge. They can also repair or replace any damaged bed borders.
5. Grass Health Recovery
Thin spots, brown spots, and areas with snow mold will often greet the frustrated homeowner when the snow melts off the lawn in late winter and early spring. Your lawn service can help the grass recover. Mold issues and tip browning can usually be fixed with some fertilizer and mowing off the affected grass tips. Thin spots or dead spots will recover reseeding, possible in conjunction with aeration to help loosen the soil for rooting.
Contact a lawn care service for more help with spring maintenance.
