How your lawn looks in the first year of treatment depends on how healthy your lawn is at the start of our program. One thing you have to understand is this -- just because your lawn looks great and has no weeds, does not mean it is healthy. If your lawn has been supported through regularly scheduled applications of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, your grass may look good, but it’s only because of the treatments. Stop the chemical applications and the weeds and pests will be taking over your lawn in no time. And then, because your lawn looks terrible, you call them back to start the chemical treatments all over again. We call this the cycle of chemical dependency. This approach has become the accepted lawn care method of Americans today.  Americans spend billions of dollars each year on chemical lawn care.

You need to realize that pesticides are designed to kill living things.  They don’t just kill weeds they kill the millions of living creatures that exit in healthy soil. Your grass needs these microscopic organisms to be alive and well so they can breakdown nutrients and support the plants in your soil.

Making a smooth transition to natural lawn care usually doesn’t happen overnight.  There is typically a period of time where your lawn will not look all that great.  We will do our best to transition your lawn off the chemical dependency cycle as smoothly as possible.  How smoothly it transitions and the length of time it requires will depend on its level of dependency.

If your lawn was chemically treated in the past, usually by the second year if there were any chemicals left over they will be used up or have leached out of the soil. This is when you could see new weeds appear or the lawn develop problems like brown patches.  This is actually a good thing however, because this means your soil is coming back to life. We will do our best to anticipate and minimize any of these problems as your lawn transitions. 

Every lawn is unique, so depending on how your lawn responds, it should be well on its way to becoming self sustaining.  This means less maintenance on your part like less watering, mowing, fertilizing and weeding. You more than likely won’t need to de-thatch anymore because the microorganisms have come back and they are doing what nature intended once again. We will need to aerate less often because the soil is healthier and not as compacted as it used to be. You won’t be mowing as often because natural fertilizers won’t cause your grass to grow like crazy anymore.  You won’t have to water as often because your grass has grown deeper roots and your soil has more moisture holding capacity.  By now, if you have followed our programs closely, your lawn will be very nice.

We will guarantee a greener, healthier and safer lawn for your family and pets to live and play. A 100% weed free lawn is probably not realistic. We seek to establish a level of weed presence that is aesthetically tolerable to our customers.  It might not be perfect, but we can get it pretty near perfect if that is what you desire.  The really great thing about an organic lawn  is that once we get it healthy, it is practically self sustaining. 

The best weed control is promotion of a dense, healthy stand of grass. 
Uniform coverage of grass reduces thin areas that allow weeds to become established.  Tall, dense turf shades the soil surface and prevents weed seeds from germinating.  Healthy grass is better able to compete with weeds for space, light, water and nutrients.  A healthy lawn can absorb and recover from insect damage, resist disease, and mask/prevent weed development.

An organic lawn care program will help you protect your family’s health, improve the health of your landscape and protect the health of the environment. An organic lawn also means less maintenance, which results in reduced costs and more free time for you.

Initially it might cost more for an organic program, but in a few short years your costs will go way down.

Each lawn is unique and soil testing is one of the methods we use to custom design a program exclusively for every lawn we service.   By testing we know the deficiencies and the over abundance of every nutrient in a customer’s soil. We never over apply or under apply any products. And we will never recommend a product or service that your lawn does not need. Over applying creates run off or leaching into our water supply.  If we under apply products the plants will not get the proper amount of nutrients for maximum benefit.  Remember this -- “If they’re not testing, they’re just guessing!”

Ask questions. What products do they use? An organic provider will be talking about things like adding beneficial microorganisms, balancing soil nutrients, or creating a self sustaining ecosystem in your soil.   Be aware of pretenders. As demand for organic lawn care increases, chemical companies will offer organic services.  Again, ask questions. There are myriad ways to disguise products that are not all natural or organic; organic-based, mixes, inert ingredients are just a few examples.  Remember this, “Organic is only as good as the people behind the products!”