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6-Step
Lawn Care | White Grub Control | Perimeter Pest Control Check our "Growing Conditions" section. We will keep this page updated with information you can use to understand our program, corresponding weather conditions and tips you can use to supplement our care. click here The Greenskeeper, Inc. offers a six step seasonal lawn care program that is specifically designed to meet the needs of lawns in Indiana. These timely applications vary in content to continually build the health, color, and vitality of your lawn. These applications are made by fully certified and state licensed Turf Specialists.
Request a free estimate: fill out our online form or call 317-846-7131.
White Grub Infestation is a very common problem in the cool season grasses found in central Indiana. The Greenskeeper will always include a price for White Grub Control in all our estimates.
In approximately 30 days, these eggs hatch and the larva produced, begins feeding on the root system. Damage can be severe for two reasons. First, the root is actually cut away from the soil leaving the grass plant to slowly die. Secondly, because the insect is feeding in the root zone, it cannot be seen by the naked eye and thus the damage it causes won't be discovered until after it has occurred. White
Grub infestation is treated in one of two ways. 2. If, in late August or September, grub damage is discovered; the lawn can be treated on a curative basis with insecticides that actually kill the grub by being absorbed thru its' skin, or being eaten by the insect. In both cases, the insecticide must be watered in after application in order to be effective. Is your lawn susceptible to White Grub damage? Here is where we tend to find White Grubs. 1. Older
lawns that are sodded rather than seeded. Request
a free estimate: fill
out our online form or
call 317-846-7131. "Occational Invaders" are a relatively broad group of insects which live outdoors, but which may invade buildings at some point in their life cycle. Although they usually do not cause structural damage or pose a health threat to the public, they are considered nuisances and, therefore, must be controlled. The periodic treatment of planting beds and surrounding turf for the control of such insects, is a process known as Perimeter Insect Control. What
Is Perimeter Insecticide Control? The Greenskeeper Perimeter Insecticide Program is on a spring, summer, and fall application schedule that you can begin at any time. How
can you help control insects inside your home? 6-Step Lawn Care | White
Grub Control | Perimeter Pest Control
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Early Spring: This application
starts the year with a fertilizer containing pre-emergent crabgrass
control. Crabgrass and Foxtail control is applied at the highest
rate possible and the product used is widely accepted as one
of the top one or two available to the professional lawn care
industry. NOTE: We also double treat any boulevard areas along
the street which are always more susceptible to crabgrass breakthrough.
At the same time, we adjust the make-up of our fertilization
so as not to encourage excess top growth.
Late Spring: As the weather
warms-up, broadleaf weeds begin to germinate and grow in the
lawn. Once this process has started, we shift our attention to
their control. Probably the biggest thing that sets our broadleaf
weed control applications apart from our competition is that
we blend different herbicides together in order to get better
control of a wider variety of weeds including dandelion, chickweed,
and white clover. Special emphasis is placed on treating the
borders of the lawn where such weeds are more prevalent.
Early Summer: Surface insects
such as Sod Webworm, Cinch bug and Billbug invade the landscape
at this time of year and damage lawns by eating the leaf blade.
Therefore, this application includes an insecticide to combat
these surface feeding insects. Broadleaf weed control and early
summer fertilization is also included at this time. We also include
iron in this and other applications. A valuable micronutrient,
iron is added to strengthen the root system and permit the plant
to hold leaf color longer.
Late Summer: The latter half
of summer is generally one of the most stressful periods for
any growing plant. Central Indiana is in a "transitional
weather zone" which produces a wide variance of heat, humidity,
and rainfall in both July and August. During this period we concentrate
our efforts on providing the lawns root system with a very slow
release fertilization designed to sustain it during what often
are radically changing growing conditions.
Fall: This is the season of the year when all
growing plants go through their last sustained growth period. It
is an excellent time to control hot weather weeds that may have
germinated over the summer and to slowly begin preparing the lawn
for colder weather. Our blend of slow release fertilizers and weed
control herbicides are specifically designed to take advantage
of such growing conditions.
Dormant Fertilization: As lawns slow their upward
growth and lose color; the plant continues to grow downward for
an extended period. During this time, a high rate of Nitrogen is
applied that will almost all go towards enhancing the root development
of the plant, provide it with food reserves for winter, and promote
earlier green-up next spring.
White
Grubs are the larva of two types of beetles, the Northern Masked
Chaffer or the Japanese Beetle. In late June, the female of these
beetles, lays eggs by burrowing into the thatch layer of a lawn
so that the eggs are deposited in the root zone of the grass.
