Lawn Care Program

Depending on your grass type, the comprehensive TurfPride Lawn Care Program provides five or seven individual treatments per year especially designed for the Raleigh market as well as for the Atlanta market. These treatments are scheduled at five to seven-week intervals and provide both liquid and dry fertilizers as well as weed and turf-damaging insect controls. These programs, coupled with your good watering and mowing, provide your turf with all the basics for a beautiful and healthy lawn throughout the growing season.

1. Treatment One - Early Spring
Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass and Centipede
Pre-emergent crabgrass control, post-emergent broadleaf weed control, potassium fertilizer.
Fescue
Pre-emergent crabgrass control, post-emergent broadleaf weed control, early spring fertilizer with iron.

2. Treatment Two- Spring
All grass types
Pre-emergent crabgrass control, post-emergent broadleaf weed control, spring fertilizer with iron.

3. Treatment Three- Late Spring/Early Summer
All grass types
Late spring fertilizer with slow-release nutrients and broadleaf weed control applied as needed.

4. Treatment Four- Summer
Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass
Summer fertilizer with slow-release nutrients and broadleaf week control applied as needed.
Fescue
Lime supplement and broadleaf weed control as needed.

5. Treatment Five- Late Summer
Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass, Centipede
Summer fertilizer with slow-release nutrients and broadleaf weed control applied as needed.
Fescue
Fall fertilizer with high phosphorus to promote healthy plants and new seedling development. Broadleaf weed control applied as needed.

6. Treatment Six- Early Fall
Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass, Centipede Winter weed pre-emergent control and broadleaf weed control. Fall fertilizer to promote cold weather tolerance.
Fescue
Fall fertilizer with high phosphorus to promote healthy plants and new seedling development. Broadleaf weed control applied as needed.

7. Treatment Seven- Late Fall
Bermudagrass, Zoysiagrass
Lime, winter weed pre-emergent control and broadleaf weed control.
Fescue
Late fall fertilizer to promote cold weather tolerance and promote healthy spring green-up. Broadleaf weed control applied as needed.

Tree and Shrub Program

Each season, your landscape grows and changes. All the trees and shrubs on your property make up a valuable and growing investment, adding both value and enjoyment to your home. But each new season also brings insect, disease and weather problems that can damage or even destroy the beauty and health of your landscape.

TurfPride has the experience you can trust to carefully inspect and manage the health of your landscape trees and shrubs. Through each season of the year, we monitor and treat insect and disease activity on all plants covered by our program. Our program also provides precisely formulated fertilization for improved plant growth, bloom potential and general vigor.

Our comprehensive Tree & Shrub Program provides complete fertilization and controls for ornamental insect and disease concerns in your landscape. These treatments are scheduled at five-to-seven-week intervals to provide your ornamental plants with consistent protection from a broad spectrum of pest concerns.

TurfPride's program also includes a rotation of insecticides and fungicides throughout the spring and summer to ensure consistent performance. Coupled with good watering and proper pruning and trimming, this program provides your landscape with all the basics for beautiful and healthy plants throughout the growing season.

1. Treatment One - Late Winter
Foliar application of Dormant Oil spray for control of over-wintering insect eggs and fungal spores.

2. Treatment Two - Early Spring
Spring fertilization - balanced fertilization with slow-release products and micronutrients injected into the root zones of all ornamental plants.

3. Treatment Three - Late Spring
Foliar treatment with systemic insect and disease controls. Miticides applied as needed.

4. Treatment Four - Early Summer
Foliar treatment with systemic insect and disease controls. Miticides applied as needed (treatment is specifically designed for Japanese Beetle control.)

5. Treatment Five - Summer
Foliar treatment with systemic insect and disease controls. Miticides applied as needed.

6. Treatment Six - Late Summer
Foliar treatment with systemic insect and disease controls. Miticides applied as needed.

7. Treatment Seven- Fall
Fall fertilization - balanced fertilization with micronutrients injected into the root zones of all ornamental plants.

Additional Services

Aeration

Mechanical core aeration will help alleviate excessive thatch, reduce water run-off and increase water penetration. Spring or fall is the best time to use aeration to enhance the development of a deep root system so that it can withstand drought, disease and insect stresses.

The aeration equipment consists of a series of hollow coring tines. When these are rolled over the lawn, they puncture the soil, systematically removing small soil plugs. The equipment is compact and can be easily used in confined areas.

The plugs of soil and thatch are pulled up and left on the lawn, as they contain beneficial microorganisms that will help to break down the remaining thatch. They will disappear back into the lawn in 7 to 10 days or with the first mowing. Raking the cores to break them up will speed their disappearance from the lawn surface.

Aeration may be used 1 or 2 times each season. It is usually recommended for the spring and in the fall when soil is moist.

For more information, please e-mail us or call 770-590-7200.

Overseeding

All cool-season lawns require special attention every fall in order to maintain a healthy, thick turfgrass for the next growing season. Fescue & Kentucky bluegrass lawns must be re-establish from seed every fall to replace any voids or thin areas of your turf. Cool-season grasses are best seeded from mid-August to mid-October in order for new seed to germinate and for plants to establish a strong root system before winter. Seeding too late can result in weed competition developing next spring due to thin turf areas of your lawn, and poorly established plants before the onset of cold weather.

When overseeding or interseeding lawns, good seed-to-soil contact is critical in order for good germination and seedling establishment. TurfPride recommends that homeowners mow their turfgrass as low as possible, aerate their turfgrass with a mechical hollow-core tine aerator to a depth of .75-1.5 inch deep, and broadcast seed onto the surface at a rate of 5-7 lbs of seed per 1000 square feet. Slit seeding may be an alternate method of seeding by utilizing a machine to open a slit in the soil and the placement of seed at the desired depth in the soil. Regardless of the seeding method, watering after soil preparation and seeding will be critical for the first 7-10 days in order for the seed to germinate and a new root system to establish for your new plant. Do not allow the seedlings to dry out.

Do not apply any herbicides to your lawn 2-3 weeks before you aerate and overseed with any cool-season turfgrass seed.

For more information, please e-mail us or call 770-590-7200.

Landscape Plant Material Root Injections

Tree & Shrub Landscape - Fall and Spring fertilization of landscape plants are recommended on an annual basis. Plant nutrients are injected directly into the root zone of the plants with special injection equipment in order to provide your tree & shrubs with nutrients where they need them, in the root zone. Surface applications of commerical fertilizers must breakdown into a water solution and leach down to the root zone in order for the landscape plant to utilize the nutrients. Many times, surface applications of granular products may be less effective due to surface wash off resulting from heavy rains or irrigation, or laying around the base of the plant due to the lack of water dissolving the granulars.

TurfPride's treatments consists of Nitrogen (for green-up), Phosphorous (for root development) and Potassium (for cold and warm weather hardiness) These elements are essential to plant growth. In addition to essential elements being applied, TurfPride also includes micronutrients or minor elements for optimum growth and plant development. These nutrients are supplied in small amounts to provide that extra boost for your plants growth. The minor elements included are Iron, Born, Copper, Manganese, Molybdenum and Zinc. Special note: Spring flowering shrubs (like Azaleas, Rhododendrons, etc.) should not be fertilized until after their flowering in the spring.

For more information, please e-mail us or call 770-590-7200.