Additional Lawn Care Services
Here at Agronomic Lawn Management, we pride ourselves on providing comprehensive lawn care solutions designed to keep your lawn and landscape in pristine condition all year round. In addition to our basic lawn care program, we offer a range of add-on services to address specific needs and enhance the beauty and health of your outdoor space. Our goal is to create a thriving, lush lawn while protecting your home from common pests. Plus, our expert technicians are always available to educate you on the best times for treatments and applications, ensuring that your lawn receives exactly what it needs at every stage of the year.
Along with our standard services, we also offer a range of specialized add-on services to address unique lawn care challenges:
- Goose Control: Effective methods to deter geese from nesting or grazing on your lawn, preventing damage to your grass and landscape.
- Soil Amendments: Nutrient-rich soil treatments to improve soil health, enhance root growth, and promote overall lawn vitality.
- Fungicide Applications: Prevent and control lawn diseases with professional fungicide treatments that help keep your turf healthy and free from harmful pathogens.
- Warm-Season Aeration: Specialized aeration services for warm-season grasses, improving soil compaction and water absorption, and boosting overall lawn health.
- Sedge Control: Targeted treatments to eliminate sedge, a common weed that can disrupt your lawn’s aesthetic and health.
Optional Add-On Services
At ALM, our lawn care programs are just the foundation of what we offer. Beyond these tailored programs, we provide a range of additional services designed to address your lawn's unique challenges and needs. Each recommendation comes with your lawn's health and your goals in mind, ensuring every service adds value. If we suggest an extra service, it’s because our experts genuinely believe it’s the right choice for achieving the lush, thriving lawn you deserve.
Some of the additional lawn services our technicians might recommend are:
Goose Control Services
Since so many of us live on or near the water, we all know how many geese flock among us. They are commonly called "resident geese" since they're often on our lawns! Our area typically has giant Canadian geese that do not migrate predictably—if at all—due to their larger size, which gives them a higher tolerance for our winter weather. These animals eat on our lawn until there's none left, leave feces everywhere, and can easily attack humans and pets. At ALM, we provide goose control so that you don't have to worry about them any longer or deal with animal control!
Our Goose Control Service:
- Utilizes a specialized spray: Contains a UV colorant visible to geese but invisible to humans.
- Deters geese naturally: Makes turf unappealing by altering its taste, "training" geese to avoid your property.
- Safe and humane: Non-toxic and does not harm the geese in any way.
- Flexible application schedule: Includes three treatments, with additional monthly applications available if needed.
Soil Amendments: Creating the Foundation for Healthy Turf
Soil amendments are an essential add-on service for many homeowners because healthy turf starts with healthy soil. After conducting a required soil test, we carefully analyze the results to identify imbalances or deficiencies in the soil. This test provides critical information about pH levels, nutrient content, and overall soil composition.
If the results indicate that your soil lacks key nutrients or is not at the ideal pH level, we recommend targeted soil amendments. These adjustments may be necessary to:
- Balance pH Levels: Lawns thrive in soil with the correct pH range. If your soil is too acidic or alkaline, it can block nutrient absorption, leaving your grass malnourished even with proper fertilization.
- Improve Nutrient Availability: Certain soils may lack essential nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, or potassium. Soil amendments replenish these nutrients, supporting strong root growth and vibrant, healthy grass.
- Enhance Soil Structure: Compacted or poorly draining soil can limit the flow of water, oxygen, and nutrients to your turf’s roots. Amendments like organic matter improve soil texture and increase its ability to retain moisture and nutrients.
Warm-Season Aeration: A Key to Thicker, Healthier Lawns
Warm-season core aeration is an essential add-on service designed to complement our Warm-Season Lawn Care Programs, specifically tailored for grass types like Bermuda, St. Augustine, and Zoysia. These grass varieties thrive on spreading through rhizomes and stolons, which are natural growth mechanisms that help your lawn become thicker and more resilient over time.
The timing of this service is critical for optimal results. We perform warm-season aeration during the late spring—typically from the last week of April through the end of June—when these grasses are actively growing. By targeting this period of peak growth, aeration maximizes the benefits to your lawn.
Why Choose Warm-Season Aeration?
- Loosens Compact Soil: Over time, soil can become compacted, especially in areas with heavy foot traffic. Aeration creates small holes in the soil, relieving compaction and creating pathways for essential nutrients to penetrate.
- Enhances Root Growth: By improving oxygen and water flow to the root system, aeration fosters deeper, stronger roots, which are the foundation of a healthy lawn.
- Boosts Nutrient Absorption: Aeration helps fertilizers and other lawn treatments reach your lawn’s roots more effectively, increasing their impact and promoting vigorous growth.
- Thickens Your Lawn Naturally: As rhizomes and stolons spread, they use the improved soil conditions to establish new plants, resulting in a denser, more vibrant lawn.
Fungicide Applications: Protect Your Lawn from Harmful Fungi
Fungal diseases are a common threat to lawns, capable of causing unsightly patches, discoloration, and even long-term damage if left untreated. Our fungicide applications are specifically designed to target and prevent the growth of harmful fungi, ensuring your lawn remains healthy, vibrant, and resilient throughout the year.
Common Lawn Fungal Diseases We Treat
In our area, some of the most frequent fungal diseases include:
- Brown Patch and Summer Patch: These diseases create irregular patches of discolored grass, often thriving in warm, humid conditions.
- Spring Dead Spot: Affects warm-season grasses, causing circular patches of dead turf that persist into spring.
- Dollar Spot: Leaves small, silver-dollar-sized patches of bleached grass blades.
- Mildew: Forms a white, powdery coating on grass blades, particularly in shaded or humid areas.
Tailored Fungicide Treatments for Every Lawn Type
We customize our fungicide applications based on the type of grass you have, as warm-season and cool-season lawns require different care strategies:
- Warm-Season Grasses (e.g., Bermuda, St. Augustine, Zoysia):
- Includes 4 standard applications: two in the spring and two in the fall.
- Additional treatments are available during the summer for lawns prone to fungal outbreaks or under significant environmental stress.
- Cool-Season Grasses (e.g., Fescue, Kentucky Bluegrass):
- Includes 5 targeted applications throughout the summer, addressing peak times when fungal activity is most likely to occur.
Why Choose Fungicide Applications?
- Preventative Protection: By applying fungicides proactively, we stop fungal growth before it can cause damage.
- Targeted Treatment: Our applications are specifically formulated to treat the fungal diseases most common in your area and lawn type.
- Healthier, More Resilient Lawn: Protecting your lawn from fungal diseases enhances its appearance, health, and ability to recover from stress.
Sedge Control: Keep Your Lawn Free from Invasive Weeds
Sedge is a particularly stubborn and invasive type of weed that thrives in lawns and gardens, quickly taking over if left unchecked. Known for its thin, sharp blades that can easily cut your hand, sedge is not only unsightly but also a nuisance to deal with. Its ability to spread rapidly makes it a common challenge for homeowners aiming to maintain a pristine yard.
Why is Sedge a Problem?
- Rapid Spread: Sedge grows quickly and can infest an entire lawn if not addressed early.
- Tough Texture: Its sharp blades make it unpleasant to handle and walk on.
- Competitive Growth: It competes with your turfgrass for essential nutrients, water, and sunlight, weakening the overall health of your lawn.
Our Sedge Control Service
To effectively manage sedge and prevent it from taking over, we offer a targeted sedge control program that includes:
- Two Summer Applications: Applied during the peak growing season, these treatments stop sedge in its tracks, preventing it from spreading and recurring.
- Comprehensive Coverage: Our treatments are designed to address sedge infestations at their root, ensuring your lawn remains weed-free throughout the summer.
The Benefits of Sedge Control
- Improved Lawn Health: By eliminating sedge, your turfgrass has more access to vital resources, resulting in a stronger, greener lawn.
- Aesthetic Appeal: Keep your lawn looking clean, uniform, and inviting by removing unsightly sedge.
- Peace of Mind: Our expert treatments ensure effective and long-lasting results, so you can enjoy your yard without worrying about invasive weeds.
Areas We Service in Virginia
Agronomic Lawn Management has been proudly creating beautiful lawns since 1998. We provide exceptional lawn care in Virginia in a manner that is effective and environmentally responsible. We are proud to provide our services to these areas:
