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Thank you for your business! We really appreciate you choosing Happy Roots to help maintain your lawn, landscape and sprinklers. Below you will find a few tips on what to do next.
Please call or e-mail us if you have any questions or comments regarding the services performed on your lawn today. E-mail:Les@ColoradoHappyRoots.com Phone: 303-457-8300
After Service Care:
- -If your lawn was aerated, leave the plugs. They will disappear in a couple of weeks through watering and mowing and are good for the lawn. They help break down the thatch layer, and if you have low spots, you can rake plugs into these areas to help level them out.
- -If your lawn was fertilized, water it in as soon as you can, the fertilizer is activated by water. If possible, wait until you water it in a couple of times before mowing. If you need to mow, mulch the grass instead of bagging it.
- -If your lawn was over seeded, water it in the same as the fertilizer and stay on a regular watering schedule for as long as possible to keep the soil moist, this will help with germination of the seed. If you have thin or bare spots, hand water them a couple of times a day for a few weeks to help the seed germinate in these areas, once it gets cold, the seed will not germinate until next spring. Seed does take good soil contact, moisture and heat to germinate.
- -The key to making the products and services we perform on your lawn work is proper watering. Don’t water too much or too little, make adjustments to your sprinkler clock regularly through each season to avoid your lawn drying out or wasting water and causing other problems by over watering. Also, it is a very good idea to winter water with a garden hose and sprinkler once or twice per month through the winter months, unless we are getting sufficient amounts of snow. Winter watering will help prevent spider mites from taking over and killing large areas in your lawn. Your grass is still alive in the winter, not dead, it’s dormant and winter watering is great for the roots of your lawn.
- -If the weeds in your lawn have been sprayed, wait 24 hours to water.
Services you may be interested in this fall/winter. Call or email us for details and pricing.
- -Sprinkler Winterization
- -Leaf Clean-up
- -Yard Clean-up, Pruning of Shrubs and Trees
- -Junk Removal and Hauling
- -Snow Removal
- -Outdoor Christmas Lighting (You provide the lights we put them up.)
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We have just been through one of the driest winters and early springs on record, up until this last week that is. Those of you who started a regular watering schedule early (end of March – Early April) probably have a very nice thick green lawn right now and those who waited awhile to get on a regular watering schedule probably have a lawn that is struggling or even has damage from spider mites or grubs.
The dry winter/spring has created an environment that insects love. If you have big brown patches in the middle of some green lawn, you probably have spider mite damage. If you have areas in your lawn that are thin and just not looking too good even after regular soaking, you may have a grub problem. We have been seeing a lot of these issues around this area. Most of the spider mite damage is on South facing slopes.
To avoid these issues in the future, remember that water is the most important thing your cool season lawn needs. Not too much but definitely not too little. The grasses we have in our lawns are native to the east where rain is plentiful and here in Colorado we are obviously very dry and even drier this year. So winter watering, soaking the lawn, trees and shrubs once per month through dry winters is advisable, and getting on a regular watering schedule early in the spring is also advisable. You don’t have to turn on your sprinkler system to do this, just pull out the garden hose (like the old daysJ) and put a sprinkler on the end of it. I like the tractors that roll across the yard on a hose, my grandma used to have one of these………anyways, uh-oh I’m showing my age now.
With these insect and watering issues, I would like to offer a few suggestions that we may help with if you need it. With your second application of fertilizer and other services, I would recommend an insecticide application be done with it. For most yards this application would cost an additional $35, larger yards would be a little more of course. We have seen grub damage and spider mite damage all over this area and an insecticide application would be a good preventative measure and also would take care of these two issues if you have problems with them. It also takes care of other insect problems in the lawn area that may arise. A second application in the summer may be needed.
For assistance with watering schedules and practices, I am available by appointment to come over and assist with sprinkler clock programming. I can show you how to properly water each zone of your sprinkler system and put the program in your sprinkler clock, so that your lawn is using more of the water that you are putting down. I can help you understand and be able to monitor your watering situation year round so that you can be on top of the most important part of keeping a nice lawn, your water. These appointments are available in 30 minute consultations and cost only $30. You will save your lawn or much more than $30 in your water bill. It is well worth it and I would love to teach you so that you will be happy with the other services you get throughout the year, because the other services you get throughout the year will not give you good results without proper watering practices.
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Thanks,
Les Cowan
President – Happy Roots
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Here in Thornton, Westminster, and Broomfield we have had a very dry winter. The mountains have recieved huge amounts of snow fall, but we are over 30 inches below our normal snow fall amounts here in the Denver metro area and front range of Colorado. We now find ourselves halfway through our “normally” snowiest month with nothing to speak of yet.
My Point to this is that I would recommend soaking your lawn, trees and outdoor plants with the hose this weekend. It’s still too early to turn on your sprinler system, but do it the old fashioned way……with a garden hose. You may have some damage to your lawn by mites if you don’t get some water on it soon. That also reminds me, don’t pay anyone to put chemicals on your lawn to get rid of mites. Mites don’t like water, so all you have to do is water your grass and they will go away. You may already have some damage, but acting now will minimize it.
So go ahead don’t wait until it’s too late, get the hose out and soak your lawn. You’re grass will thank you!
Les Cowan
Happy Roots
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1. Aerate - This breaks up compacted soil, reduces thatch, and creates thousands of holes that penetrate into the root zone of your lawn to deliver water and food (fertilizer) directly to the roots where your grass needs it.
2. Fertilize – Fertilize every 2 months and start with a spring application in March or April. Fertilizer will replace the nutrients that are vital to a healthy lawn. These nutrients are not readily available in our native soils, so regular fertilizer applications are essential to keep your lawn thick and green. By the way if you keep your lawn thick and healthy you will have less weeds in your lawn, because the weeds cannot compete with thick grass.
3. Water properly- Proper watering is the single most important maintenance practice for your lawn. Without proper watering throughout the entire year, none of the other maintenance services you spend money on will work. Watering needs change throughout the entire year so you will need to adjust your watering schedule for those needs. These watering adjustments may need to be done weekly to keep the correct amount of moisture in your soil at any given time of year. At the very least, you should adjust your watering schedule monthly. Winter watering is also very beneficial if we are having a dry winter. We offer sprinkler consulting starting at just $30. We can show you how to monitor and schedule your sprinklers so that you are not watering too much or too little.
4. Other good options – If you have a thin lawn, you will want to improve your maintenance practices on tips 1-3, and then you may want to add some more beneficial services like over seeding to fill in some of the thin areas or EZ Wet wetting agent to get more out of the water and fertilizer you are putting down.
5. Mow low - Instead of power raking or dethatching which we do not reccomend, mow your lawn low in mid to late March. This will get rid of all of the dead grass on top and expose the green grass underneath that is starting to grow. Don’t power rake! Power raking adds un-needed stress to your lawn.
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