Learn About Our Upcoming Summer Services!
Summer Lawn Applications:
Our professional technicians apply each lawn application with care and precision. Applications are applied during specific times throughout the year to maximize nutrient uptake and to avoid any harm to the surrounding environment. Beginning early May, we will begin applying our Insecticide and Weed Kill lawn applications. If you are new to our program, we may need to customize the package based on the status of your lawn.
Insecticide Lawn Application – This is a granular application, which controls above and below insects. This lawn application can be applied more than once throughout the summer to continue to protect your lawn if requested. Here are some of the most common insects: grub, fleas, and ticks.
Weed Kill Lawn Application – This is our only liquid lawn application; it will only treat weeds present at time of visit (does not prevent). After a two-week period, our technician will return to do a spot check treatment. It’s completely normal to see bare spots after the application as it’s getting rid of the weeds.
The 7 lawn applications are applied as follows throughout the year:
- Pre-emergent – March
- Spring Lime – April
- Spring Fertilizer – April
- Insecticide – May
- Weed Kill – July
- Fall Lime – September
- Fall Fertilizer – September
Insecticide on Shrubs:
The insecticide is a liquid foliar spray, applied by hand, and it is a contact foliar spray applied to most common damaged (select) plants. It deters insects from eating foliage from a wide range of shrubs such as Roses, Japanese Weeping maple, and Cherry Laurels. It is used to control a wide range of insects such as beetles, mites, and wood borers. We start early May, to prevent plants from being damaged, this is applied three times during the summer May, June, and July.
Summer Prune:
G A Landscaping is set to accomplish a healthy-looking landscape around your home! Therefore, we are now offering summer prune services to conserve the longevity of your shrubs by restoring shape and structure. Pruning during summer is beneficial as it avoids the shrubs to overgrow their space and it stimulates new healthy growth. It improves the air circulation, therefore, reducing moist-based problems such as: fungi, dead roots, and pests.
Common plants that would require summer prune:
- Roses (dead head to promote new blooms)
- Lilacs
- Spiraeas
- Camellias
- Rhododendrons
- Abelias
- Fruit trees
- Deutzias
- Flowering quinces
- Forsythias
- Viburnums
If your lawn is looking stripped and simple, the grass on your lawn may be mature with no more signs of reproduction, leaving bare spots on your backyard. One of the secrets to keep your lawn looking beautiful is to over-seed it. It’s a simple technique to achieve an even, healthy green grass. An ideal time to over-seed your lawn is when temperatures start to drop in the fall but are somewhat still warm enough for seeds to germinate before the winter. Seeding during the fall allows the young grass to get a head start and establish its roots before it goes dormant in the winter. Normally, rain amounts are greater during fall and its preferable to over-seed during this time of year. Approaching spring, the young grass will continue to develop deeper roots before temperatures start to rise again. The lawn will therefore have a thicker turf, enable its ability to fight weeds, insects and diseases, and improve lawn appearance.
In Loudoun county…. Summers can get busy with BBQ’s, children playing, pets, maintaining and mowing lawns. Summers in Loudoun county can also get very dry, then rainy days approaching during fall can make the lawn look like its full of small puddles and next thing you know the rainfall isn’t going anywhere because the soil is pressed with no airways. If you’re in Loudoun county and you begin to see your backyard all worn up with teared grass here and there it means you may need to look into some Aeration services because your yard literally… has to breathe.
