"I want an instant beautiful lawn now!"

Are you wanting a lawn care services that can roll up to your house and give you instant curb appeal with a beautiful looking lawn, transformed from your jungle of a "lawn" that is infested with weeds, rocks, bare spots, and clay-like soil? Well, you are in luck! A professional services can kill off the lawn, grade the landscape, haul in lots and lots of topsoil, grade the topsoil, and sod the entire lawn. Just be ready to pay several thousand dollars for this instant service. But hey, you will have an instant beautiful lawn. Oh, and be prepared for some really high water bills that your sod will need to survive. Miss a few days of watering and your sod is sure to die, requiring removal of the dead sod, install of new sod, and another expensive bill.

So, what are you left with in this situation? Well, your other option is to be patient and work with a lawn care service that can work with your lawn to transform it into a good stand of grass that will be your neighbors envy. Will it be overnight, of course not. But, it will be more cost effective and less of a drastic change to your landscape. Aerating, seeding, weed control, fertilization, soil treatments (lime, sulphur, etc.), and proper lawn maintenance can work wonders for a lawn. And, the old saying goes, anything worth having takes time and patience. So, be patient with your lawn maintenance professional, they can work wonders on your lawn be we are not magicians.

Mike Wathen

Wathen Lawn Care