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Northern Appeal's Lawncare and Snow Removal offers a full range of services for both residential and commericial customers. If you manage a business, retail development or commercial property, the appearance of your grounds is an indicator to your prospective clients regarding the quality of your operation. Northern Appeal Lawn Care and Snow Removal can help you provide your customers the impression you want convey. Northern Appeal has lawn care and snow removal programs for your private or commercial property that can be custom tailored to suit any budget. Northern Appeal uses commercial mowing and plowing equipment to provide our customers with professional results.
Northern Appeal Frequently Asked Questions
And Lawn Care Tips
Seasonal lawn care will vary to some extent depending on the climate zone and type of grass that is grown, whether cool season or warm season varieties. In general, however, there are recognized steps in lawn care that should be observed in any of these areas.
Spring or early summer is the time to seed, sod, or spring a yard, when the ground is warmer. For a new lawn, adding a fresh load of topsoil to the ground is beneficial. Seeding the lawn is the least expensive way to plant, but it takes longer for the lawn to grow and usually needs daily watering, or the freshly-sprouted grass will die. Sodding is more expensive, but it will provide an almost instant lawn that can be planted in most climate zones in any season.
Summer lawn care requires raising the lawn mower for cool season grass, and lowering it for warm season lawns. Lawns will require longer and more frequent watering, best done in early morning to encourage a stronger root system. This is also the time to apply an all-purpose fertilizer. During the hot summer months, lawns may be susceptible to fungus disease. It’s advisable to take a sod sample to a local expert for testing and treating the yard, if necessary.
In the autumn, lawns can be mowed at a lower height and thatch buildup that occurs in warm season grasses should be removed, although lawn experts are divided in their opinions on this. This is also a good time to add a sandy loam and apply fertilizer, one that contains some type of wetting agent. Cool season lawns can be planted in autumn if there is adequate rainfall.
Lawn Care is an important exterior home maintenance task. The sections below have information on how to design your landscape, what to consider before hiring a landscaping service, how to use lawn equipment, general lawn maintenance and repair tips, types of lawn sprinklers, and seasonal lawn maintenance tasks.
The key to a successful, great looking lawn is routine, consistent care. The chore can become a pleasant habit instead of a dreaded duty with the right attitude and a little expertise. The secret is to do the right chore at the right time.
Lawn care in the winter is minimal, requiring only light feedings of organic material, such as green-waste compost, and minerals to encourage earthworms and beneficial microbes.
Ultimately, most home owners have better things to do than spend every spare minute caring for their lawn. Fortunately, that is where Northern Appeal will come to help you properly maintain your yard.
More Lawn Care Tips
Maintaining a rough lawn requires only occasional cutting with a suitable machine, or grazing by animals. There is often heavy social pressure to mow one's lawn regularly and to keep up with the Joneses.
Maintaining higher quality lawns may require special maintenance procedures:
- Mowing regularly with a sharp blade at an even height.
- Not mowing when lawn is wet.
- Not removing more than 30% to 40% of the plant tissue.
- Alternating the direction of cut from previous mowing.
- Scarifying and raking, to remove dead grass and prevent tufting.
- Rolling, (to encourage tillering (branching of grass plants) and to level the ground).
- Top dressing with sand, soil or other material.
- Spiking or aeration (to relieve compaction of the soil).
- Additional watering.
- Fertilizing application.
- Organic or synthetic pesticide application.