Lou's Landscaping Services
We’ve got an eye for all things green! With a skilled team of landscaping experts, we’re ready to take on any job you need completed for your yard. We offer a complete catalog of different landscaping services to choose from. We don’t consider any job to be outside our scope of work. If it involves making your yard more beautiful, we’ve got the skills and tools to make it happen. Contact us today to get your next project started!
- Lawn Care Maintenace
- Power Washing
- Dethatching
- Over-seeding
- Spring & Fall Leaf Clean Ups
- Free PH Soil Testing
- Natural lawn Grub and Insect Repellent
- Brush Hogging
- Lawn Aeration
What is Thatch?
Thatch is a loose, intermingled organic layer of dead and living shoots, stems, and roots that develops between the zone of green vegetation and the soil surface. Thatch build up begins when turf produces organic debris faster than it can be broken down.
When is the best time to dethatch my lawn?
Early Spring/early fall is the best time to dethatch the lawn.
Why shouldn’t I just use the power washer myself?
In short, it’s time consuming and expensive. The average pressure washer costs around $100/day to rent. You’ll have to worry about picking up the machine, cleaning it, fueling it, and dropping it back off again. More importantly, it’s possible that you could damage your home’s exterior by using a pressure washer that’s too strong for your house’s finish or by filling it with the wrong detergent. Many untrained people end up causing more harm than good to their homes in the long run. It takes years of experience to be able to do the job right.
Should I Aerate & Over-seed my lawn?
If your lawn has a faded color, thin or bare areas of grass, or patches of dirt, aeration and overseeding can bring it back to life. Also, if your lawn gets a lot of heavy use from your kids and pets, or feels spongy and dry, chances are your soil is too compacted for proper nutrient flow. Compaction problems are also evident in homes that have been recently constructed. Often the subsoil of new housing plots has been compacted significantly by heavy construction equipment. The new topsoil will look nice for a period, then fade from the inability to flourish.
How to know if you have Grubs?
One way to know if you have grubs is to pull on the dead grass in your lawn if it easily comes out the ground or comes out with very few roots attached to it; then you likely have grubs. You can also cut a 12-inch square out of your lawn to see if there are grubs in the soil.