Blended Lawn Care program
What Makes bioLawn’s Blended Lawn Program Unique?
Our focus is in providing results rather than applications. Our customers benefit from our experts on staff, which include three individuals with masters degrees in turfgrass management. Our guarantee is to tweak your fertilization and weed control to produce your desired lawn. From time to time other problems occur such as disease and insect problems. While not included in our standard program, we can offer applications to combat those problems.
Fertilizer
Our fertilizer contains a proprietary blend of organic and traditional fertilizers. This provides consistent growth and green color, while also feeding the soil biology to promote a healthy lawn over the long term. The type and amount of fertilizer is varied throughout the year to meet the needs of the season and weather conditions to achieve healthy growth.
Weed Control
Our weed control practices consider environmental impact while achieving results. Product toxicity, type of weed, time of year and number of weeds drive our weed control practices. We utilize both spot and blanket applications to target weeds specifically. Our weed control focuses on the most prevalent weeds in the midwest, including dandelions, broadleaf plantain, clover, crabgrass, creeping charlie and wild violets.
seasonal applications
Early Spring Application (April – May):
The optimum time to prevent crabgrass. This application is a pre-emergent for crabgrass and a fertilizer to stimulate winter recovery. As dandelions start to bloom, weed control is added to keep dandelions at bay. What to expect? During cool spring weather, lawns are slow growing and slow to respond to treatments. Results from the early spring application can take longer, but this application is the foundation for the rest of the season. Ask about our Soil Soft Activator, which can be added to this application to speed up results.
Late Spring Application (May – June):
A great time to control broadleaf weeds, dandelions and creeping charlie, and stimulate the lawn’s roots to grow. This application of fertilizer and weed control will do just that. What to expect? Warmer weather leads to quicker weed control and your lawn jumps out of the ground after this application. If you have a lot of weeds, do not expect this single application to control them all. With bioLawn’s program, consistent applications will have the weed population wilting down throughout the year. At this time we also do preventative grub control applications.
Summer Application (June – August):
New weeds are popping and the grass is stressed out. This application targets germinating weeds. Depending on how your lawn is growing we may add additional fertilizer at this time. What to expect? Weeds can be more difficult to control during the summer, so weeds are slower to die. Most lawns will not need supplemental fertilizer at this time, but rest assured we will apply some if needed. Sometimes the heat and lack of rain is too much for lawns. Our Stress Health application can be added to your program during the summer to help your lawn make it through the tough weather.
Early Fall Application (August – September):
As the weather cools, it is a great time to recover the lawn from summer stress and control new weeds. This application provides fertilizer that encourages growth and recovery. We also control any new weeds that have shown up since the summer. What to expect? The lawn will steadily improve throughout the fall. The fall is also a great time to do aeration. Liquid aeration can be added to this treatment to improve water and air infiltration to the soil.
Late Fall Application (September – October):
This application prepares the lawn for winter. We use a specialty fertilizer designed to encourage storage of reserves in the roots. This is what helps the lawn survive the tough midwest winters and come out healthy in the spring.
What to expect – Year 1, Year 2 and beyond?
Most clients come to bioLawn when their lawn needs some love and attention. Of course, we can take care of your lawn if it is already in great shape.
Year 1
Our focus in year 1 is to jumpstart the grass and soil biology as well as control the weeds. You will see the lawn steadily fill in and thicken up with each successive fertilizer application. You will see the number of weeds decrease with each application. While results occur after each application, the lawn does not go from 0 to 10 after one application. For example, if you have 50 weeds, after the first application that number will go down to 25 weeds, then after the next down to 10 weeds, then after the next down to 5. If you have creeping charlie or wild violets, it can take over a year of applications to get substantial control. Our goal is to make steady improvement through the first year.
Year 2
With the weeds mostly controlled and the lawn actively growing, you will see increased density in the lawn and a more vibrant color. Weeds will continue to be a problem during the second year and you may notice weeds popping up frequently. Our repeated applications will knock out these new weeds. As soil biology activates, the consistency and vibrancy of the lawn will increase.
Beyond
The lawn is actively growing with some weeds from time to time. At each application, we will control any weeds and provide the appropriate amount of fertilizer. Our fertilizer and weed control applications are driven off the evolving changes seen in your lawn to continue a dense, lush lawn.
Questions About Lawn Care
We recognize that you might have additional inquiries. Explore our FAQ page for answers to frequently asked questions. For any further queries, feel free to reach out to us by calling or texting at 651-967-7592, emailing us at [email protected], or simply filling out our contact form.
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