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Installing
a lawn is a lot like cooking a meal. You need to use quality
ingredients, and they need to be mixed in the right amounts, and in the
right order. Use cheap ingredients, ignore the recipe, and you’ll end
up with something that doesn’t taste very good.
Seeded Lawns
We utilize a seed mix
that is proper for lawns in Wisconsin. It consists of a mix of Kentucky
Bluegrasses, Fescues and perennial Ryes. The Rye germinates quickly and
provides cover for the Fescues and Bluegrasses, which germinate later
and fill in to give you a lush, full lawn. Mixing seed types also helps
to protect your investment should a disease come through the area,
attacking one type of grass. This way you won’t lose your entire lawn.
And we use quality starter fertilizers to get your lawn off to a good
start. This is the smart way to install a new lawn.
Proper soil
preparation is also key to a successful lawn installation. Sometimes
this involves applying a non-selective herbicide to kill the weeds that
are already there. If this is needed, we’ll tell you about it up front
so there aren’t any surprises later. And failing to do so in a weedy
yard will only mean a weedy yard later, too. Once the weeds are gone we
will ‘shoot’ the grade with a transit to ensure water is flowing in
the direction it should, and use grading equipment when it needs
adjustment. It also invloves working quality topsoil into the grade. The
soils in the Fox Valley tend to have a high clay content, and having 2
or more tri-axle loads of pulverized loamy soil to till in can help keep
that soil porous enough to allow grass roots to penetrate the soil and
start growing.
Seed contact with the
soil plays a large role in a successful lawn seeding. That’s why we
like to use drop spreaders to apply seed (even though we have
hydroseeding equipment that could spray the seed much more quickly).
Once we’ve applied the seed and fertilizer, we lightly go over the
entire seeded area with rakes, so the seed can make good contact with
the soil. It’s only after this is done that we start the engine on our
hydroseeder.
Hydromulching your
newly seeded lawn can aid in giving it the best chance to grow fast and
full. We use recycled paper mulch or a paper/wood fiber mixture to cover
the seed and fertilizer. This does several things: It retains water to
make it available to the seed, it covers the ground to prevent weeds
from growing, it helps hold the soil in place so a little rain isn’t
going to wash away your seed, and it’s neat. When we leave, you won’t
have chopped straw blowing all over the neighborhood and into the
street. And you won’t have anything to rake up after a few weeks, like
you will with straw.
And if you’re like
most in the Fox Valley, you don’t have an irrigation system to keep
things watered. To protect your new seedlings from being trampled when
you walk through mud to move hoses, and to save you time, we offer a ‘watering
kit’ that includes 10 hoses and sprinklers, couplers, and instructions
for you to set up your own temporary irrigation system. We’ll even
come out and pick it all up when you’re done using it.
Sodded Lawns
Don’t have the time
and patience to wait 2 or more years to have a full, lush lawn? Sod may
be the answer. We only use sod grown by professional local growers, and
is installed in your yard the same day that it’s harvested. The sod
has already been growing 2 years when it’s installed, giving you an
‘instant lawn.’ And we follow the same soil preparation and
fertilizing procedures we follow for seeding. The impact on your yard is
dramatic and immediate.
So whether you want
quick results or can invest some time into growing your lawn from
scratch, we can handle your lawn installation project and get it off to
a good start.
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