Commercial Lawn Care Services
Custom organic and low impact lawn & plant care programs.
Commercial Lawn Care Service
For property managers and landscapers
The right business partner can change your business. We are here to serve you and your properties. Whether you handle just a few sites or have several hundred to manage we have the tools to help your business succeed.
Commercial Benefits
You focus on installations and landscaping maintenance and leave the fertilization, insect and weed control to us. Our highly trained technicians are licensed, insured and here to support you with quality commercial lawn care.
- Lawn fertilization, lawn insect and disease control, plant health care programs and assessments for difficult issues.
- Lawn insect control service includes grub and chinch bugs.
- Soil testing.
- Aeration and overseeding, including specialty seed applications.
- Vegetation control for hardscapes, gravel areas, driveways, planting beds, anywhere weeds show up.
- Customer communication tools including day in advance phone, text or email service notifications.
- Co-branded marketing tools: We use leave behinds and service records with your logo on them to emphasize the service is from your business.
- Set service days that work with your maintenance schedule and will troubleshoot any issues that arise with call back services included throughout the season.
- Free, fast service calls for commercial clients. Just ask any of our existing customers. Our results are guaranteed. We only look great when you look great.
Easy service set up
Call us in for one or two problem sites to start and let us show you what we can do for you. Some landscapers have us do the lawn and plant health care, others just the plant health care. Our role is to support your business and help it grow by making your sites look fantastic. We simply do the inspections, analysis, and applications to keep your customers looking great. You get the time to focus on your business.
Organic Commercial Lawn Care
An organic lawn and landscape not only looks beautiful, it is also a place you and your family can enjoy without thinking about potential negative impacts people, pets or the environment. With an organic lawn, it is important to appreciate biodiversity (weeds) that will occur. There are reduced risk materials to deal with different weeds, but for a 100% organic lawn will have weeds. To reduce weeds we ask that you (or your lawn maintenance service) mows the lawn high. At least 3 inches or higher. This longer turf will have deeper roots and will keep the soil cooler to reduce annual weed germination.
To get the best performance from your organic lawn you must have regular soil tests every 2 years and aerate and overseed every year. The best looking organic lawns will have an irrigation system in place that is used as needed in the summer months.
Organic Based Commercial Lawn Care
For larger lawns, or lawns with issues, and Organic Based program might be the answer. Organic based lawn care is a more cost effective option for a homeowner than an organic program. Each application is less expensive because it is a blend of nitrogen sources including organic sources and water soluble nitrogen in slow release format. The objective is to get a great looking lawn while adding organic water insoluble nitrogen to the soil.
Low Impact Commercial Lawn Care
To keep your property lawn looking great, or get it looking great, it needs nitrogen and water. That creates the foundation for a lawn you tenants or customers will enjoy. Our low impact lawn care program uses effective slow release nitrogen and potassium to give your property’s lawn the balanced fertility it needs to do well throughout the growing season. GreenHow low impact programs do not contain organic sources of nitrogen, they are high quality, dry applications with coated materials guaranteeing slow release and consistent even coloring. We do not use any liquid nutrient applications in our program. We can customize the nutrient applications of a low impact program to include or exclude weed and insect control based on your needs.
Weed Control
Weed control can be added to any commercial fertilization program we offer. For reduced risk weed control there are several options. Fiesta and Tenacity are the primary ones we have used for years and have had good results with. Both offer weed control for a variety of weeds with an environmentally friendly profile. Like any material with an EPA registration number, we must post the application when it is performed. Everyone will need to stay off treated areas until they are dry. Some discoloration may occur, but the effect is temporary. For Tenacity, treated areas will become white. For Fiesta, the thatch in treated areas may become a dark brown or purple. We can tank mix other materials with Tenacity to minimize the bleaching effect.
Aeration and Overseeding
Aeration is done to keep air circulating in the soil and minimize the effect of soil compaction. Soil compaction restricts air, water and fertlizer in the soil. It can result in thin and stunted turf. Compaction can also allow invasion of certain weeds which are better adapted to those conditions. Core aeration will also alleviate problems from thatch development. Thatch is living part of the grass that is growing above the surface rather than roots growing below the surface. The best time to aerate is from August 15th to September 30th. That gives the lawn and the new seeds plenty of time to germinate and mature enough so the hardening off process can happen as winter approaches. Opening up holes in the spring will result in summer annual weeds like crabgrass showing up. The best way to control weeds is through healthy turf that is thick and dense. We use a plug aerator and always overseed after aeration with high quality grass seeds.
After aeration, please keep seed wet. Germination should occur in 21 to 28 days depending on soil temperature and adherence to watering recommendations. Seedlings will emerge from the aeration holes. The majority of seeding failures are the result of failure to keep the seed moist. Click here for a copy of of aeration and slice seeding follow up care.
Slice Seeding
For a beautiful lawn, slice seeding and dethatching is an excellent way to improve your turf appearance. When we leave, your turf will look rough, an effect of the mechanical action of the thatch being pulled up and the slicing of the grass and soil to get the seed, where it needs to be, in the dirt. The positive impact will be apparent after the seed germinates. We use high quality grass seeds from New England seed companies. This should not be done in the spring, unless the area is bare dirt. This is done on areas of weedy turf, dead areas and areas with exposed dirt. All other areas should be aerated and overseeded.
There is a process called lawn renovation that utilizes a slice seeder to introduce seed into the bed after areas that are weedy have been killed. This process kills perennial weeds and then leaves them there to serve as organic matter and cover for the seed after the area has been sliced. If space permits, we always slice in 2 directions, a method known as cross slicing, to achieve a fuller growth more rapidly.
After slice seeding, please keep seed wet. Germination should occur in 21 to 28 days depending on soil temperature and adherence to watering recommendations. Seedlings will emerge from the aeration holes. The majority of seeding failures are the result of failure to keep the seed moist. Click here for a copy of of aeration and slice seeding follow up care.
Soil Conditioner
Soil conditioner is used to help soil drain rapidly and hold water. It sounds impossible, but this interesting material does both very well. Soil conditioner is fired clay that has a lot of nooks and crannies in each piece. It is spread on ball fields after a rain storm to absorb water. The clay absorbs water quickly. If integrated into soils, the roots of grass near the clay, then draw out the water held by the nooks and crannies like a reservoir. This is how it helps wet areas dry out and dry areas retain moisture for plants. It can be added at each aeration and overseed at three different rates (and charges) of light, medium and heavy.
Grub Worms
Grubs are a very destructive insect that eat the roots of turf grass. An area susceptible to grubs is a sunny and wet area. Any irrigated sunny lawn will do for grubs. The female beetle mates and lays her eggs in late July or early August. The eggs hatch and the feeding larva of the beetle (the grub) does its damage. The grub will feed until the following spring moving down into the soil as the frost line moves down staying just below the frost line. In late spring and early summer the larva will pupate and after the pupation an adult beetle emerges.
Grub damage is usually noticed in late August and September as dead areas that peel back easily like a toupee that isn’t secured or a carpet rolling up. Often animals including raccoons will roll back the grass to feed on the grubs beneath. If the activity is noted in the late summer or fall it is too late for a systemic treatment. The only treatment at that time is a curative material that will kill the grubs and be inactive 24 hours later.
Once you have had grubs, or if you have an area susceptible to grubs, a systemic treatment is a superior option. It is much more effective and environmentally friendly than a curative treatment It must be applied before mid-July. It is best applied with a fertilization application to the growing grass moves the material into the roots. It must be watered in after application. An area susceptible to grubs is a sunny and wet area. Any irrigated sunny lawn will do for grubs. The female beetle mates and lays her eggs in late July or early August. The eggs hatch and the feeding larva of the beetle (the grub) does its damage. The grub will feed until the following spring moving down into the soil as the frost line moves down staying just below the frost line. In late spring and early summer the larva will pupate and after the pupation an adult beetle emerges.
Grub control may be added to any fertilization program we offer. Preventative and curative grub control may be applied as a separate application or as part of a combined application. There is always a charge for grub control service.