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A beautiful healthy lawn can be yours when you leave the work to Liqua-Grow Turf Specialists. We offer Experience, Knowledge, and Customer Satisfaction. Lawns are like any plant, they need proper nutrition. The most important thing you can do for yours is to feed it. A well-fed lawn is healthier, which means it has a better root system to combat heat, cold, drought, mowing, foot traffic and other stresses. While fertilizing only once a year will improve the condition of the lawn, a well-fed lawn that receives multiple feedings a year will do even better. Feeding your lawn throughout the season creates a healthy, beautiful outdoor space to enjoy.
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Our 30th year in business and our technicians and Operations Department have once again been working very diligently attending the latest industry seminars gathering lots of information that will provide you and your family with the best possible service using the best products and equipment on the market. As always we pride ourselves on the more personalized customer service that we offer and we are serious about producing lawns that stay thick, green and healthy all year. Customer expectations and satisfaction continue to be our driving force. We continue to provide highly trained professionals that really do care about your specific lawn care needs. We work very hard to apply precise applications of the best environmentally friendly products at the proper intervals throughout the season. All of our lawn care programs meet product label guidelines and nutrient management regulations to support the clean up of the Chesapeake Bay.
Important Insect Information: Early summer will signal the return of one of your lawn’s worst enemies…the loathsome white grub. These root eaters are the larvae of several types of beetles, including Japanese beetles and June beetles. If left untreated, grubs can do devastating damage. Adult beetles lay their eggs in lawns during early summer, and the grubs hatch soon thereafter. White or gray in color, the newly hatched grubs are feeding on grass roots throughout the summer and fall months, then burrow into the ground to over winter. In the spring, most return to the surface to feed again, then pupate into adult beetles and lay new eggs. Some types of grubs have a two-year life cycle, enabling them to do even more damage to lawns. Though grubs feed on grass roots throughout the summer months, the damage they cause may not be visible until late summer or early fall. Lawns that are infested with grubs eventually wilt, turn brown and die. Since the roots are being eaten away, sections can be rolled back like a carpet. And even worse, infested lawns tend to attract moles, skunks, raccoons and birds that will tear up the turf in order to feed on the grubs.
How to Prevent Grub Damage: For the past 5 years, weather conditions in our area have been optimal and have proven a sharp increase in lawn destroying grub populations. Some of you have seen first hand the damage grubs can do to your lawn and know that it is much easier (and a lot cheaper!) to prevent their damage than to repair it. To protect your investment in a beautiful yard, we are strongly urging our customers, especially those that have had grub problems in the past to consider adding a grub preventative application to your program this year. After doing careful research and spending lots of hours meeting with chemical representatives we feel the need and importance to share our concerns for what can be done to prevent future grub problems.
Another pesky lawn problem in a lot of lawns for the past 2 summers has been sod web worms and chinch bugs doing their damage. We have done our research and have found a new product called “allectus” which is a new innovative, dual-action insecticide that controls all major surface-feeding and subsurface turf insects with just one application a year. Allectus combines the insect-fighting power to control insects above and below the ground surface. In extensive testing, Allectus has been shown to achieve 90 percent or greater control against destructive pests, including white grubs, chinch bugs, sod webworms, cutworms and armyworms. It effectively controls multiple insect stages for flexible application options and has up to 12 weeks of residual control.
We are very happy to report that over the past 3 years, we were extremely happy with the results of the Grub Preventative Applications and will once again be offering Merit Insecticide to provide effective, season-long control of all turf destroying grub species. Merit, with twelve years of proven performance, is the most widely used grub control material by turf care professionals. We recommend Merit to all our customers not only for its effectiveness against grub damage but also because of its low environmental impact and low use rate.
We are confident Merit and/or Allectus will provide season long control and protect your lawn from insect damage. Please call our office today if you are interested in adding a grub or insect preventative application to your program.
Remember that LiquaGrow Turf offers free lawn evaluation & estimates so you can have the lawn you always wanted.
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