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Summer is a time to enjoy your lawn and hang outside with friends and family, but when summer weeds try to invade, they can destroy the look and feel of your grass, making it look much less inviting and potentially hazardous.
Learn about three common summer weeds that can invade your lawn in Lowell, Ada, Cascade, and the nearby areas of Michigan and how you can identify and kill them before they take over the entire yard.
We have both red clover and white clover here, so it is easy to see the flowers of these weeds when they begin to sprout. The plant itself has three leaves clustered together that make it easy to identify. Many easily confuse clover with other plants like oxalis and black medic that also have three leaves together, but clover leaves are teardrop-shaped while oxalis has heart-shaped leaves.
Clover will begin growing in your lawn during the summer and thrives when lawns are dry and soil is compacted.
In our area of Michigan, there are several types of thistle that grow. Some of these thistle plants are considered invasive, meaning they are not native to the area and need to be removed. Invasive thistle species include:
The thistle is characterized with its tuft-like bright purple flowers that grow tall...
Working to create a beautiful lawn is a lot of work, and when that work is destroyed by unwanted plants taking over your grass, that can be incredibly frustrating. One of those unwanted plants that is also hard to get rid of is called yellow nutsedge.
Learn more about this nuisance plant and how to get it out of your lawn in areas such as Lowell, Ada, Cascade, and surrounding cities in Michigan.
The first sign of yellow nutsedge is your lawn slowly turning yellow. This plant is a type of sedge, or a grass-like plant. It generally begins growing in the months of June, July, and August. While at first, it may not be as visible as other undesirable plants, you will quickly notice it happen because nutsedge will grow much more quickly than your grass and will stick up from the rest of the grass. Your previously uniform lawn will no longer look green and vibrant. It is a very invasive plant and will take over the lawn rapidly. As it grows, there will be spiky yellow flower-like structures sticking out of the top of it.
Getting rid of yellow nutsedge is not a simple process. Since sedge is not a typical weed, it does not respond to broadleaf weed control treatments. Removing nutsedge is a multi-year process because it can never be truly removed, it has to be suppressed. In other words, yellow nutsedge may always be present in your yard but suppression treatments...
Imagine investing hundreds and hundreds of dollars over the years into making your lawn beautiful, green, and healthy--only to have that lawn taken away in a matter of days by an unseen threat. That is exactly what can happen if you do not use preventative grub control treatments to protect your lawn.
Save your lawn and your money with a preventative treatment administered to properties in Lowell, Ada, Cascade, and nearby areas of Michigan.
Every year, various types of beetles will lay their eggs in your grass. Sounds relatively harmless, right? Bugs are everywhere. However, while these beetle larvae may be harmless to you, they pose a grave danger to your lawn. Once they hatch in late summer, they immediately target your healthy grass, eating the roots and destroying everything in their path. They continue their path of destruction as they grow during their larval stage, eventually burying themselves in the soil to pupate and turn into full adults to begin the process all over again.
This process can be avoided by applying a preventative grub control treatment over your entire lawn in June. The treatment will ensure that the grubs will not hatch and eat your grass. Keep your lawn protected and save yourself a lot of money over having to use lawn repair services.
If you do not use preventative grub control to stop grubs from damaging your...
Caring for your lawn involves many different steps and treatments. Without fertilization, the grass will be weakened. Without weed control, you will have an issue with problem weeds growing in your yard—and the list goes on.
At Turf Tech Fertilization, our lawn experts have devised a treatment schedule that can be administered throughout the year to keep your grass in tip-top condition. If you are in Lowell, Ada, Cascade, and the nearby areas of Michigan, learn about the ideal lawn treatment schedule for your yard.
It is best to apply lawn treatments periodically throughout the year. Each treatment builds on the previous one to establish a strong, healthy, and verdant lawn.
In early spring, we start your grass off on the right foot by applying a pre-emergent weed control treatment for crabgrass. Crabgrass and other broadleaf weeds can be difficult to get rid of once they have grown in your lawn, so this pre-emergent treatment helps to kill them off before they start growing. You may also consider an aeration treatment at this time, as it can help alleviate soil compaction after being stuck under layers of snow and ice all winter long.
Around late April to mid-May, we'll start applying slow-release fertilizer treatments to the grass. We use nitrogen-heavy fertilizer because the element of nitrogen contributes to maximum chlorophyll production. Slow-release...
Crabgrass is a hardy weed that tends to thrive in sandy and tightly-packed soil, which is the most dominant type of soil in the Grand Rapids area.
Our lawn fertilization experts here at Turf Tech Fertilization deliver a preventative crabgrass treatment early on in our lawn care program. We serve both homes and businesses located in Cascade, Ada, and Lowell, MI.
Crabgrass grows rapidly once the spring rolls around, so you must have preventative measures in place if you want to keep this pesky weed at bay. Check out some of the specific reasons why you need to keep crabgrass out of your yard.
According to a study conducted by the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, crabgrass strips lawns of the nutrients, water, and sunlight that they need to grow. Additionally, the same study found that crabgrass emits its own herbicides that kill adjacent plants.
Because of the herbicides that it emits, crabgrass can also damage the quality of your soil. While your soil's quality can be restored, it requires extensive soil testing and costly soil repair services.
Crabgrass is defined as a warm-season annual, but it behaves much like a perennial. It lives and dies off within the same year like an annual, but its growth pattern isn't that simple....
Not only does routine fertilization keep your lawn looking green and full, but it also promotes its health in the long term. Fertilization is especially important on commercial properties, as these areas tend to be bigger and receive heavier traffic.
Here at Turf Tech Fertilization, we apply six fertilization treatments throughout the year to your commercial lawn. We serve the lawns of businesses located in and around Cascade, Ada, and Lowell, MI. We developed this fertilization schedule to best cater to your commercial lawn.
Your business has a lot of expenses, but don't make lawn restoration services one of them. Check out these three reasons you should recruit professional fertilizations for your commercial lawn in Ada, MI.
If your commercial lawn has been recently established, whether through overseeding or new sod, regular fertilization will be incredibly beneficial. Fertilization treatments will help your new grass achieve optimal growth. Our fertilization schedule helps your Ada lawn grow healthily and quickly, which is essential to the long-term success of your commercial grass.
Our fertilization company offers a Happiness Guarantee for every fertilization project. This means that if your lawn doesn't grow green and lush after our treatments are applied, we will revisit your property and develop a new plan of action.
We would like to announce our new website has been launched! We are very excited about new and existing customers being able to find us online, learn about our services and get in contact with us.
Part of our new website is a blog that we'll be utilizing to provide you with lawn care tips, reminders and other great lawn and landscaping information. We encourage you to join in and comment on our posts with your questions, opinions and requests.
Since we just launched the website, there are many things we'll be adding into the future. When you see or talk to us, let us know what you think! Your feedback is important as we strive to offer the best lawn service possible.
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