Lawn Restoration
Does your lawn need a little TLC? We’re the Twin Cities’ premier lawn restoration experts.
Green With Envy
In America we tend to think of our lawns as a billboard of sorts, expressing at a glance our worthiness as neighbors, income level, and value to society. Looking on the other side of the fence, we can’t help but simmer in jealousy at the thriving lawn with lush green turf our neighbors somehow effortlessly maintain. If the neighbor’s lawn is greener than ours, surely their lives are happier, easier, and more fulfilling.
Whether all of this emotion and assumption is justified remains unproven, and still dead patches, thinning grass, burned out turf, compacted soils, and weed riddled yards remain a source of embarrassment and consternation.
There’s no need to live in shame any longer. Lawn restoration is within reach, and we’re here to make it easy.
Restoring Glory
We offer two options for restoring your lawn to its rightful glory. For client’s who need results asap, we offer a fast paced “Rapid Restoration” that occurs all in one visit, restoring the lawn within a few months.
We also offer a “Moderate Restoration” which costs less and takes three years to complete. Both of our options for lawn restoration rely on building a healthy soil profile to support turf density and vigor.
Rapid Lawn Restoration
The rapid restoration process starts with stripping away struggling sod and weeds. We haul away the debris then we aerate, seed, spread compost, seed again, and lay down a seed blanket. This all happens in one visit. Our aerator mechanically breaks through the compaction layers while the solid compost we install has all the microbiology and nutrients needed to sustain a vigorous soil environment and support a lush lawn. After installation we provide watering directions and ongoing support to ensure that the lawn fills in nicely.
Moderate Lawn Restoration
Our best budget conscious approach to lawn restoration is called the Moderate Restoration option. We aerate and over-seed your lawn three times per year for three years in a row, using the seed blend of your choice. We combine aeration and seeding with organic fertilizer and liquid compost extract to restore health to the soil and turf.
Our repeat aeration services break up soil compaction, allowing soils to absorb water and grass roots to penetrate deeper into the soil. The moderate lawn restoration option relies on organic fertilizer and liquid compost to feed and replenish soil microbiology such as beneficial fungi, bacteria, and microarthropods.
Mowing Rules:
There are three key mowing rules to follow for supporting soil and turf health:
- Never mow shorter than 3”.
- Never cut off more than 1/3 of the leaf-blade height at a time.
- Always mow with a sharp mower blade.
Our lawn care service follows these rules and our lawns show it! Most lawn damage is due to improper mowing techniques.
How Does Mowing Affect Soil Health?
Damaging the turf damages the soil, here’s how: plants make sugars through photosynthesis that occurs in their foliage. Up to 40% of the sugars made by plants are exuded through their roots to feed soil fungi and bacteria. When plants are thriving, they are feeding the most possible sugar to soil fungi and bacteria. Whenever we cut off more than 1/3 of the plant height, mow shorter than 3”, or mow with a dull blade, we do damage to foliage, reducing the plant’s ability to photosynthesize. This causes a massive reduction in the amount of sugar being oozed into the soil which in turn reduces the biomass and benefits of fungi and bacteria in the soil.
As fungal networks die off, so to dies back the web of organisms feeding and protecting plants. Beneficial nematodes disappear from soil profiles because they rely on fungal networks to provide a moist soil environment to thrive. As beneficial nematodes numbers are reduced, damaging insect larvae such as Japanese beetle grubs begin numbers begin spiking. The good news is that our lawn restoration services rejuvenate the soil and turf together making a system that perpetuates health and abundance in our lawns.
We all want to fit in, we all want to be accepted. A damaged lawn broadcasts an image of ourselves that maybe we’d rather not portray. Don’t fret, get set.
Contact Minnehaha Falls Landscaping today to schedule an on-site consultation so we can start restoring your lawn today!
