Our Clean-Air Core Aeration service is one of the most beneficial ways that you can improve the health of your lawn! Especially when doing so without the harmful exhaust, produced by small gas engines, going into the cores that were just pulled to allow oxygen into the root zone of your turf grass! Our all battery-powered equipment typically pulls 2-4″ plugs from your lawn.
This helps to break up soil compaction, redistribute the nutrients in those plugs throughout the lawn, and allows water to penetrate deeper into the soil for stronger and deeper roots for the turf and nearby trees and shrubs, as well as creating near-perfect growing conditions for new seeds, should you choose to pair the service with our overseeding at the same time. All with sound reductions of 2-4x less than the typical gas machines!
Pulling cores also helps to stimulate and encourage the growth of rhizomatous turf types such as Kentucky Blue Grass, Perennial Rye, and even Zoysia Grass which are all common grass types in our area. Be sure to get sign up today for your Clean-Air Core Aeration!
Lawn thatch is organic matter, such as grass clippings, rhizomes, stolons, or stems, that haven’t quite broken down yet. This organic matter forms as a layer on top of the soil surface between the soil, and the leaves of the turf grass. It is beneficial to have a small layer of thatch, as this helps to retain soil moisture, suppress weeds, and add beneficial microbes to the soil.
As that layer builds up over time, it can have reverse effects on your lawn. Several different, common, grass types in our area travel and spread in your lawn via root networks called rhizomes. If this thatch layer is too thick, this will prevent these desirable turf types from spreading and thickening up your lawn. Dethatching also helps to remove the extremely invasive, Japanese Stilt Grass. This is due to the shallow root systems of the Stilt Grass.
The best time of year to have your lawn dethatched is when the turf is actively growing. In our area, this is in the spring time or the fall due to our primarily cool season turf types. This service is very beneficial by itself, but is well paired with our Clean Air Core Aeration, Overseeding, and Sprinkler System Rental for best results to thicken up your lawn!
Thank you for taking the time to check out our Organic Lawn Fertilizer program! Our program is designed to build soil health from the top down using OMRI Listed Organic Fertilizers. OMRI Listed simply means that the products have been tested and approved by the Organic Materials Review Institute for use in certified organic operations under the USDA National Organic Program.
Spoil Test
Spring Wakeup Fertiizer
Summer Prep Fertiizer
Clean Air Core Aeration
Autumn Germination Fertilizer
Winterizer Fertilizer
Limestone
Iron
Biochar
Humic Acid
Molasses
Essentials Package
Advanced Package
Our goal is to build soil health, not destroy it with commonly used herbicides, fungicides, miticides, or biocides. Regardless of whether a pesticide is organic or not, it is still killing something, which always affects ecology negatively.
Synthetic fertilizers, including those that are listed as “Natural-Organic” are harmful to your soil, pets, and children. More often than not, these synthetic materials leach into storm water management systems.
Our fertilizer blends primarily contain feather meal, kelp meal, and blood meal. These ingredients are safe for you, children, and pets to walk on right after application. No more hiding inside while harmful pesticides are being applied!
When building soil health, everything starts with a soil test. We test every lawn to get accurate readings to find out what your lawn has, and what we need to focus on building. From there, we offer several options to best suit your needs.
Limestone – Most of our native soil is known to be acidic. With proper soil testing, applications are put down to help neutralize the ph. This creates much better growing conditions, as ph levels are a big factor in knowing how to treat your lawn for optimized results.
Iron – Iron is a wonderful mineral to help increase growth and density of grass, strengthen resistance to disease, and promote a deep green color. Lawns that are rich in iron are much more tolerant to heat stress, drought stress, and heavy traffic.
Biochar – Biochar is a charcoal product, created from wood or agricultural waste. This beneficial application improves soil structure, increases water and nutrient retention, and promotes increased soil microbial activity. Another wonderful benefit of Biochar is that it acts as a carbon sink, taking the carbon out of the air and putting it back into the soil. This helps to mitigate the effects of global climate change by sequestering carbon.
Most “weeds” in lawns are beneficial plants! They’re also symptoms of what’s going on in the soil biology. For example, common clover is typically found in soils that are nitrogen deficient. This beneficial plant has nodes on its roots that release more nitrogen into the soil than it takes up, making it an excellent soil nitrogen fixer!
It was common before the early 1960’s for every blend of grass seed to have about 5% of clover seed in it as well. Clover is also a wonderful source of pollen for our all important bees. Another common weed is Wild Violet. Violet’s are a great ground cover that is native to our region! They are host plants for sweat bees (Halictidae), which are a specialist native pollinator to the Wild Violets.
When it comes to violets in lawns, we see them as wonderful additions to add beautiful color in spring and fall. One last example of a misunderstood lawn plant are Dandelions. Dandelions are clear indications of two major soil conditions; low calcium and soil compaction. They send out a thick tap root, which goes deep into the soil and alleviates soil compaction.
This allows deeper water penetration and better moisture retaining capacity.
By optimizing the soil nutrients, and using only the best lawn maintenance practices, we are able to create a beautiful thick lawn with a high turf canopy. This keeps your soil cool, hydrated, and helps prevent weed seeds from ever getting the required light to germinate. This typically takes 2-3 seasons of our Clean Air Core Aeration and Overseeding service.
Serving the Plymouth Meeting, Lafayette Hill, Conshohocken, Fort Washington, King Of Prussia, and surrounding neighborhoods!