Busy professionals, families, seniors and even couples can all benefit from some help around the home. One of the most frequent chores throughout the spring through late autumn involves keeping the lawn and the landscaping looking great.
Many St. Paul homeowners do their lawn work on their own. If you have the time, the equipment and the energy, it is a great way to get some exercise and get outside, but does take a lot of time and effort.
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the maintenance for a front and back yard simply doesn’t provide the results you want or expect. When this happens, or if you just don’t have the time for all the work, hiring lawn care professionals is the perfect answer.
Routine Maintenance
There is actually a lot more to effective and regular maintenance required to keep your lawn looking beautiful and healthy. In addition to regular mowing effective lawn care includes using organic fertilizers, mulching, weed control, removing all leaves and organic material and edging around sidewalks, driveways, landscaping, decks and patios as well as along fences.
It is important to cut the lawn routinely as well. Allowing the grass to get too long can create a greater risk of insect problems and lawn diseases, particularly if the grass is left long or poorly maintained before the winter season.
Weeding
Weeds in a lawn not only rob the grass of moisture and natural nutrients in the soil, but they can actually choke out healthy grass. Weeds can also spread from your lawn into flower beds and other landscaping, even cropping up on patios and around your pool.
Routinely weeding the lawn and using safe, effective weed reduction programs that are based on the specific weeds in your St. Paul lawn can minimize the need for herbicides. This can be accomplished by timing the application to address emerging weeds at different times in the growing season.
Soil Enhancement through Mulching
By using professional lawn care companies, your lawn will benefit from mulching. With commercial equipment, lawn mulching creates a very fine mulch of the grass that adds a layer of organic material to the top of the soil.
This is a great way to preserve moisture in the soil, help to naturally decrease the growth of weeds and to also help in preventing erosion on the surface of the lawn. The grass will grow in thicker, and there is less need to use fertilizer when mulching is a regular part of the lawn services provided.