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31 Mar

Application of Soil Conditioner/Overseeding and Fertilizer.

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Lawn Maintenance Colorado Springs

The perfect time to fertilize and overseed your lawn is immediately during or after your aeration service. This enables vital nutrients to get to the root zone quickly which results in a THICK, PLUSH lawn that all of your neighbors will envy. We use an excellent commercial grade golf course blend Colorado grass seed as well as a Liquid Organic to Slow Release Granular that gives grass the nutrients it needs while being 100% safe for kids and pets.

Why fertilize your lawn?
To keep your lawn green, growing and looking at its best, a consistent program of fertilization is essential. Regular Fertilization will lead to thicker healthier lawn that reduces erosion, filter pollutants,provides natural cooling and cleans the air. Plus your lawn will be less likely to suffer from weed, insect and disease problems when it’s fertilized on a regular basis. And perhaps best of all your lawn will need less water when it gets the nutrients it needs throughout the year.
What’s in fertilizer, anyway?
Fertilizer contains three primary (and many secondary) nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Nitrogen promotes strong color and top growth, phosphorus stimulates root development, and potassium helps with disease resistance and water retention. For the best results, your lawn should be given these nutrients in evenly spaced treatments throughout the year.
How do lawns use fertilizer?
After fertilizer becomes mixed with the moisture in the soil, its’ absorbed by the plants through hair-like feeder roots. Once inside the plant, nutrients are distributed to the areas where they’re needed and can go to work building new roots, promoting fuller leaf growth, warding off diseases and helping the grass hold water throughout the seasons. Based on our local history, we know the best fertilizer for your particular needs, and we can apply it in the right amount at the right times of year to ensure beautiful, healthy growth. Call us today for more information on our fertilization program, or to schedule your lawn for this very important service.

Why overseeding?
Overseeding is a great way to thicken up a thin lawn or add a hardier, more drought-resistant grass variety to your property. Good seed-to-soil contact is essential for seeding success, and the new grass seed will have an easier time growing in the holes left behind by aeration. Keep in mind that if your lawn has been seeded, the soil should be kept moist with light, frequent sprinkling until the new grass is well established.

Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

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31 Mar

Soil Conditioner And Overseeding.

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Lawn Maintenance Colorado Springs

Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

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26 Mar

Power Raking Colorado Springs 3

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Power Raking is great a way to remove the dead debris and crust that builds up on a lawn over winter. It is also a gentle way to remove thatch from the lawn without causing the significant damage that dethatching can cause. We recommend power raking in the early spring before new growth has begun. Power raking slices the surface stolons and stimulates new growth, thickening the lawn.

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3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

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25 Mar

Tree and Shrub Care Colorado Springs

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Lawn and Land-care provides professional tree services performed by highly trained crews. We can help you create an outdoor living environment that is beautiful, healthy and safe. Furthermore, proactive tree service and tree protection through preventative maintenance will help to protect your property value.

Our company will inspect your landscape, diagnose any problems, make recommendations based upon years of experience working in your area and provide a tree service estimate at no charge. Lawn and Land-care is ready to help, whether you need assistance from a tree doctor to diagnose or treat tree disease, or if you are new to tree service and want to learn more.

Our Tree Services:
• Tree Fertilizing
• Tree Disease Treatment
• Insect Control
• Clean Up

Tree & Shrub Health Care

Your trees and shrubs represent a growing investment that’s worth protecting. Our program of scheduled inspections and treatment helps to keep all of your ornamentals healthy and in top growing condition.

There are hundreds of insects and diseases that can attack and infest your landscape. Our trained and licensed staff can identify and control these problems before severe damage or plant loss occurs.

CUSTOM PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF YOUR PROPERTY
Each landscape is different, and we can provide either standard or customized programs to fit virtually any property. OUr plan of protection can include insect managment, disease management and dormant applications. We can also combine these pest management services with properly timed and applied fertilization.

EXPERT PROTECTION FOR YOUR LANDSCAPE INVESTMENT
We understand and appreciate the value of your landscape investment. Call on us for a comprehensive evaluation and program recommendation.

There are hundreds of insects and diseases that can attack and infest your beautiful trees. Our trained and licensed staff can identify and control these threats to tree health before severe damage or plant loss occurs.

Deep Root Feeding

Your trees and shrubs are a growing investment that should increase in beauty and value with each passing season. But landscape plants often fail to flourish, and may even go into decline, due to lack of proper nourishment. Proper feeding of your ornamentals offers many benefits, including improved flowering, increased resistance to disease, and increased ability to ward off insect attacks. Root feeding injects the proper plant foods directly into the root zone of the plants, which allows the fertilizer to be easily absorbed and quickly put to work.

Feeding helps compensate for poor soil or less-than-ideal planting locations. Over time, poorly located plants may gradually “decline” if not given proper care. Feeding your trees and shrubs at least once per season is good preventive maintenance. The right diet helps to prevent many types of stress that weaken plants. When your trees and shrubs are in top health and growing well, they’re often strong enough to fight off many infectious diseases or insect attacks without suffering serious or permanent damage. Balanced root feeding, scheduled on a regular basis, helps to improve and protect your growing landscape investment.

Custom Programs

Each landscape is different, and we can provide a completely customized Tree Health Care Program to meet your specific needs and budget. Our plan of protection may include, disease management and dormant applications. We can also combine these pest management services with properly timed and applied fertilization. Expert Protection for Your Landscape Investment

At Lawn Pros, we understand and appreciate the value of your trees. Call us anytime for a comprehensive evaluation and program recommendation.

Tree, Shrub and Perennial Fertilization

In forest settings, plant are free to absorb all the nutrients they need from the rich, organic forest soil. In your landscape, however, it’s a different story entirely. The roots of your trees, shrubs and perennials are constantly competing with grass roots for valuable nutrients. In addition, they’re often planted in poor subsoil after topsoil is removed, and they need our help in order to thrive.

Fertilization from Lawn Pros is an extremely efficient method of delivering nutrients to your trees, shrubs and perennials. With this service, Lawn Pros injects a custom-blended fertilizer mixture below the soil surface under high pressure, right into the feeder root zone of your plants. This ensures that all feeder roots are fed and helps to reduce soil compaction.

The trees, shrubs and perennials in your landscape are valuable investments, and fertilization from Lawn Pros is one of the best ways to help them reach their true potential. Give us a call for more information about this service today.

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719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

25 Mar

Sprinkler Repairs/Upgrades and Installations

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As your landscape matures, you’re Colorado Springs irrigation system may become inefficient. Plants grow and cover-up sprinklers. Heads may become clogged with mineral deposits. Pipes may start to corrode or break. If you’re looking to upgrade or retrofit your system, we can offer our expertise in making your system work right. If your looking for sprinkler repair companies in Colorado Springs we are your people.

• Retrofit spray heads with water saving rotating nozzles
• Upgrade your existing controller to a new state of the art model
• Replace your existing system with a new water saving drip system
• Replace corroded pipes
• Maintenance and sprinkler repair

Your Colorado Springs irrigation system will require plenty of maintenance to keep it working optimally. Heads, controllers, and valves will all need constant adjustments. Eventually something will break. A broken pipe or sprinkler can waste hundreds of gallons of water and lead to plant death. We can provide fast, reliable service that in the long run can save you money.

We offer a full range of irrigation services. Whether you’re looking to retrofit an existing system or just need a quick sprinkler repair in Colorado Springs, we can help. Our experienced staff can handle just about any situation. We have all the tools to handle the job. We stock high grade, brand name parts from Rain Bird, Hunter, and Toro. We never use low grade parts or make short-cut repairs.

Now is the time to have us make any changes, add-ons, or upgrades. Landscaping changes and matures over time, which means the sprinkler system needs to be changed and adjusted as well. Sprinkler heads need to be moved to accommodate new or over grown shrubs, and some need to be raised and straightened over time.

Some upgrades can be made to your system to either save on water, give better coverage and water distribution, or just to be more user friendly. There are rain sensors to turn off the system when there has been enough rainfall, “smart” controllers that adjust the watering schedule according to the weather, easier to use controllers than some of the older models, and newer heads and nozzles that water more efficiently.

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3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

25 Mar

Sprinkler Blowout Colorado Springs

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Now is the time to think about protecting your sprinkler system from freezing temperatures. Water left inside the pipes, heads, valves, and backflow preventers will freeze over the winter. When water freezes it expands and cracks these components, causing hundreds, and even thousands of dollars worth of repairs.
Blowing out the sprinkler system is the best protection for this. Blowing out the system consists of hooking up an air compressor and forcing all the water out through the sprinkler heads. Unfortunately, small home style air compressors are not the best for this. They can not sustain pushing out enough air volume continuously.
High pressure is not the key to blowing out a system properly. We can actually do this with very low pressure, but high volume is needed.
Protecting your system from freeze damage is the absolute best preventive maintenance you can do to prolong the life of your sprinkler system.

QUESTIONS:
Q: Do I need to be home and What should I do to prepare to get my service done?
A: No, you do not need to be home at the time of service. If you are not home please:
Make sure a gate is unlocked and all dogs are put away. Make sure to shut off the water source to your sprinkler system prior to my arrival.

Q: If I am not there then how can I Pay you.
A: You can leave a check or cash or call in with a credit/debit card.

Q: How often should I have my sprinklers blowout?
A: You only need to have your sprinkler system winterized once a year. Make sure to winterize your system before the seasons first hard freeze. There after there is no guarantees or warranty that all the water can be flushed out of your system and you will not sustain costly damage. Just because you did not blow them out during the first hard freeze, get them blown out as soon as possible. The longer it freezes outside the farther down the freeze travels in the soil. If you do not blow them out you are virtually guaranteeing a disaster which will cost you alot of money to repair. In some cases the entire sprinkler system may have to be replaced.

Why Lawn Pros? We continue to strive to be the best we can be. We invest in our people and equipment. We don’t look for short cuts. We continue to look for the best way to service our customers. We use only the best products.

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Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

25 Mar

Sprinkler Sytem Parts You Don’t Want To Freeze

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In Colorado Spring there are two of the most critical parts of the sprinkler system that you do not want to freeze. Your system may have one or the other, or something else a little similar. These are safety devices called backflow preventers. They protect your drinking water from getting contaminated. They are also very expensive to replace when they crack from freeze damage. And when the ice thaws out, water can then continuously run out of the broken components and possibly flood your home or basement. Please be careful and either drain your sprinkler system at night during the spring, or heavily wrap these and any exposed above ground pipes and valves with heavy blankets or insulation. Freezing water will expand and crack any exposed copper, brass, galvanized steel, PVC or any other pipe or parts.

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719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

24 Mar

Lawn Pro’s for Lawn Aeration and Sprinkler Repairs.

Posted by lawnpros7171 in Uncategorized. Tagged: Aeration, Core Aeration, Deep Core aeration, Detaching A Lawn, Fertilization, install sprinkler system, landscaping, Lawn Aeration, Lawn Aeration Colorado Springs, Lawncare, Mowing, Overseeding, Power Raking Colorado Springs, Rich Green Lawns., Soil Conditioner, sprinkler repair, Sprinkler Repairs., sprinkler system repair. Leave a Comment

Lawn Aeration Colorado Springs

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Lawn Pros
3335 Landmark lane
Colorado Springs CO.
719-963-6267
720-221-3606

Do you often take a look at your lawn and wish it was thicker, greener or less patchy? If so, you could be suffering from soil compaction and poor grass aeration. Luckily, these symptoms are easy to solve by making aerating your turf part of your regular lawn care routine. Lawn Pros offers deep core lawn aeration Colorado Springs service for residential properties using the best lawn aeration equipment and techniques you can find.

Why lawn aeration?
Lawn aeration service is vital for all lawns and helps to increase the overall health of your lawn. The benefits of lawn aeration includes increased water retention, air penetration and the reduction of soil compaction. Lawn aeration also helps to remove the buildup of thatch which is dead organic matter. Thatch is thought to feed insects and also promotes weed growth.

Poor lawn drainage:
Soil compaction often manifests itself by the pooling or puddling of water on the turfs surface or by runoff into the surrounding beds or paths. Compacted soil has had the air and moisture squeezed out from between the grains of the soil leaving fewer and smaller passages for the rain to soak into the turf. This water then collects on the surface and runs off into the surrounding garden, but leaves the grass with only a wet surface layer and very little seepage into the deeper soil where the roots can access it an nourish the grass.

This puddling and runoff from compacted soil can lead to shallow root structures and rapid drying and dehydration. The suction effect of the evaporating water between the grains of the soil also compacts it further compounding the effect for the next rainfall or watering.
You can identify poor drainage by comparing your lawn to others in the area. If yours seems to be thinner, less green and dries out more quickly you may well have an issue with water retention in the soil that can be solved by lawn aeration.

How often should I aerate my lawn?
Lawn aeration service should be completed atleast two to three times per year to achieve the best results. We recommend early spring lawn aeration and fall. Lawn aeration may also be performed in the early summer months for greater water penetration resulting in a thicker and healthier lawn before the heat.

QUESTIONS ABOUT LAWN AERATION COLORADO SPRINGS:
Q: Do I need to mark all my sprinkler heads and how do I mark them?
A: Our machines will not get within 6” of the perimeter of your yard, so sprinkler heads on the edges “usually” do not need to be flagged, just heads in the middle of the yard. We keep plenty of sprinkler parts on hand so we will immediately replace any sprinkler head that we damage that has been clearly marked, but will not be responsible for sprinkler heads that are not clearly marked. If you do not have flags then you can use yard toys, rocks, sticks or anything that is visible and will attract the attention of the crew, or point them out to us when we arrive to do the lawn aeration.

Q: Do I need to be home at the time of the lawn aeration?
A: No, no one needs to be home when we’re doing the aeration as long as all gates are unlocked so we can access the back yard and also please be sure that all pets are kept indoors. Please call with any special instructions or leave a note where visible.

Q: I’m not sure of my lawn size, what happens if it’s more than 5000sq. ft.?
A: If your lawn is more than 5000 sq. ft. we will immediately try to contact you. We charge $10.00 for each additional 1000 sq. ft of lawn so you can make the decision to proceed or not. If we can’t get a hold of you the aeration will not be done but will be rescheduled ASAP if you wish.

Q: If I am not there then how can I pay you?
A: You can leave a check or cash for us under the front door mat, screen door, or wherever you feel comfortable. Just let us know where so we can access it discretely and quickly or you can pay over the phone with any major credit or debit card after the service is completed. You can also pay online. Just go to lawnpros.biz and click on payments.

Things to do before your lawn aeration:
1. If you have a sprinkler system, please mark off any sprinkler heads that are in the center of the lawn. We typically stay way from about 6 inches of the perimeter, so you don’t have to worry about those sprinkler heads on the edges, but please feel free to mark all if you wish. This is to avoid any damage to your sprinkler heads or our equipment.
2. Water your lawn as often as you can before your aeration. The soil should be moist but not wet, this allows for deeper plugs.
3. Please clean up after your pets before we come.
Things to do after your lawn aeration:
1. Apply fertilizer or whatever treatments you wish (overseed, revive etc.)
2. Water your lawn as often as you can over the next few weeks.
Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

23 Mar

Sprinkler Start up.

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Colorado Springs Sprinklers Start Up:
Sprinkler Start Up includes the following:
• We make sure all solenoid valves are completely closed.
• Open irrigation or water valves
• Inspect for breaks or damage.
• Activate the controller, Install new battery when applicable set watering schedule.
• Test all valves in the system.
• Inspect and adjust all sprinkler heads for proper water coverage
• Repair line breaks and broken sprinklers if needed. Repair charges may be an additional billing.
• Check cleanliness of all lines, heads and nozzles. Trim sod from around all heads and flush sprinkler lines as necessary.

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Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

23 Mar

Irrigation System Repair.

If your Colorado Springs irrigation system won’t work,
here are a couple of possibilities:
The first thing to check is the water supply. Make sure nobody shut the water off. Another thing is that the outlet which your timer is plugged into can be on a GFI breaker. If you have power, then the problem could be out in the yard. Was there any work done on the house or in the yard recently? If so, somebody may have have damaged the wire to the system. Either way, it’s time to give us a call so we can come out and fix the problem.With proper maintenance and a watchful eye, sprinkler systems can save you a lot of time and money.

Adjusting the spray heads and/or rotors annually will give the best performance and return on your investment.For example: Now that that bush that you planted several years ago has grown into a stunning specimen maybe the grass on one side has started to look bad, is the bush in the way of the spray pattern? It may only need a simple adjustment to the nozzle to clear the bush, or it may need to be moved several feet.

Give your sprinkler system a little attention and you’ll have a beautiful, happy lawn.

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Lawn Pros
719-963-6267
3335 Landmark lane Colorado Springs CO 80910

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