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We use Garden Supply Company. They do our lawn care. Organic/Natural. I couldn't tell you how much it would cost you because we have SOOOO many hollies that it throws off our total per month.
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we tried naturaLawn of America in Morrisville. It did NOTHING. waste of money. Yard looked worse a year later! Cost was not more than traditional lawn care companies
We use Leapfrog which is owned by or affiliated with Garden Supply Company. They are not 100% organic, they use a pre-emergent not corn meal gluten. We have been happy with the results. If you want 100% organic I agree, call Pleasant Green Grass.
We use Leapfrog which is owned by or affiliated with Garden Supply Company. They are not 100% organic, they use a pre-emergent not corn meal gluten. We have been happy with the results. If you want 100% organic I agree, call Pleasant Green Grass.
We use them, too. They do part of our work and Garden Supply does the rest.
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If you want to save yourself some money and willing to spend a day or two, I can tell you what I've done to bring two dead lawns full of weeds (and crabgrass) back to lush and perfect. It'll cost probably 30% of what a lawn care company would charge you, and I can attest that you'll get better results (I fired my guy years ago and took it over myself). Some of it organic. Last yard was .28 acres. Current yard is .4 acres.
Place I shop (I'm in Northern Virginia outside of DC) is called Southern States Co-op. They have the best prices by far around here. You need to shop where the pros shop, and that isn't Home Depot.
Items used:
Caravan G ($50)
Tenacity ($60)
Drive XLRB ($50)
Surfactant (just type it in Amazon and you'll see it)
Alfalfa Meal ($15 per 50lbs bag)
Soybean Meal ($10 per 50lbs bag)
Tall Fescue grass seed. ($30 per 30lb bag)
Here's what each does. And, you can put all of this down at the same time (none hurt the seeds)
Caravan G by Syngenta - is a herbicide and pesticide granular. Use it once to essentially reset your lawn from the bad that's in there (disease, fungus, bad bugs). I can buy a 30lb bag from Southern States for $50 ($100+ on Amazon). It's just enough to cover my lawn.
Tenacity by Syngenta is a spray herbicide that wipes out a whole laundry list of weeds and bad grass (torpedo grass, clover, etc.).
Drive XLRB will wipe out all crab grass with total ease, no matter how mature the weed is.
Alfalfa Meal and Soybean Meal will make your grass seed go bonkers and germinate like wildfire and quickly! Will also feed your existing grass to bring it back to health too.
Tall Fescue is heat tolerant, relatively cheap, and beautiful (in my opinion).
Here's how I've used this stuff to bring back both lawns from the dead.
First, I mow with the bagger to basically clean the yard of debris.
Then I put down the Caravan G with the spreader (Scott's spreader from Home Depot or similar).
Then I mix the Tenacity, Drive XLR8, Surfactant in my sprayer per the instructions and spray the lawn in a walking pattern.
Then I put down the seed.
Then I put down the Alfalfa Meal
Then I put down the Soybean Meal
Then I water. Then I wait about 2 weeks before mowing again. When I do mow, I bag once more.
Then, I sit back and enjoy the compliments of my neighbors and answer their questions of "how'd you do that?"
At that point, if you want to hire an organic company to take over the management, you can. You'll be handing them a lawn in great shape to start with, so they'll be on spot to not screw it up.
The nice thing about the Drive XLR8 and Tenacity, is that it just takes a little to get the results. You'll likely have plenty left over if you need to spot check (or hit the lawn again later in general). I have probably enough left over to cover my entire lawn another two times each.
That's just my opinion. I had each of my lawns quoted to get to what I've got now. Was looking at well over $1,500/year in costs to do it. I tried for a year with Scott's. I'd say I got about 30% of what I wanted from them. Did a little research on the net and drove out to where the farmers shop and asked questions. These are the things I learned to do. In 3 weeks time, I had far exceeded what I was hoping to have in general from my lawn with this approach. No weeds, just pure grass. On my current lawn, which was essentially nothing but dead dead and dead when I started last March, I got to the point where in a couple of areas, I could mow and then set a golf ball on top of the grass and the grass would hold the ball off the ground. But, fall happened and I'm on hold until March to finish it up for a couple of areas that need shade grass instead.
we tried naturaLawn of America in Morrisville. It did NOTHING. waste of money. Yard looked worse a year later! Cost was not more than traditional lawn care companies
Ditto.
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