Few things can give you pleasure and enhance your home more than a lush, green lawn. But keeping your lawn in first-class condition can be time consuming and requires a knowledge of how to deal with a wide variety of bugs and weeds. That’s why thousands of people are turning to Greensleeves Lawn Care to take the hassle out of keeping a beautiful lawn.
Through its network of franchises around the United Kingdom, Greensleeves Lawn Care offers a reasonably-priced, specialist lawn care service treating customers’ lawns with a bespoke feed and weed treatment.
To achieve a deep-green, weed-free lawn, most lawns should be fed four times a year during the growing season, using a quality fertiliser product and weed or moss control. Greensleeves use top-quality products with ‘no scorch’ technology - no need to water in - combined with time-release granules that give a steady supply of nitrogen so as not to produce surge growth, giving a long-lasting greening to your lawn.
Mosses are, for many, one of the worst lawn problems. Mosses are resilient and versatile non-flowering plants that are a symptom of a poor lawn rather than the primary cause. To successfully remove a moss problem, it is important to identify the primary cause and remove it or reduce its impact. Moss will thrive in areas of excessive moisture shade and poor turf quality. Left unchecked, moss will increase, reducing the grass’s ability to thrive and will eventually choke out the grass completely. The first thing to do is to try to identify the cause of the moss problem. If it is due to shade from trees, it is possible to remove lower branches or thin out the tree. If it is due to excessive moisture, then hollow-tine aeration will help to improve the surface drainage. If thatch is the problem, then deep scarification is what is required.
One of the easiest ways to reduce the incidence of moss is to prevent the lawn from getting long over the winter months. Grass rarely stops growing in the winter nowadays so it is important to keep cutting it. Dealing with the moss that is already there is the next issue. As moss develops from the autumn through to spring, it is important to treat it at these two times. Firstly autumn, but more importantly in the spring when moss is likely to be at its most prevalent.
Many types of weeds can leave a lawn looking unsightly. They tend to produce flowers and seed heads at different times of the year ruining the uniform green of a lush, well-maintained lawn. Weeds are generally, as with moss, an indicator of a weak turf but they can even be a problem in a well-maintained and established lawn.
Greensleeves have spent many years working with turf and lawns and have been able to develop their own range of branded fertilisers. These are tailored perfectly for the needs of your lawn at various times of year. They have worked with one of the world’s leading manufacturers of garden and lawn care products to bring these products exclusively to Greensleeeves customers. They are not available through any retail outlet or from any other lawn or gardening care company.
Greensleeves Managing Director David Truby said: “Our proud boast is that we provide a first-class lawn care service using high quality materials and qualified staff at prices less than the cost of doing it yourself. “We can give you a beautiful lawn and take all the backache and heartache out of it for you.”
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Posted: Fri 24-Jul-2009 10:29AM