Picture the soil under a healthy lawn. It’s a soil studded with networks of air pockets. Oxygen travels through these pockets, and that’s important: Just because grassroots are underground, that doesn’t mean they don’t have to breathe! But it’s more than just oxygen that must percolate down through the ground, as your grassroots also need water and whatever nutrients homeowners are supplying when fertilizing lawns. There’s a veritable beehive of activity going on down there under a healthy lawn.

Now consider the soil under the grass that is performing poorly. Instead of being fluffy enough for oxygen, water and nutrients to flow through it (down to the grassroots), it is compacted. It may also be crowned with a thick layer of thatch, rendering it even more impervious. This lawn is crying out for core aeration.

Power Ranking

With Power Raking the machines raking tines are generally set lower so that they dig into the soil to ensure they pull up all the stubborn moss which can resemble a carpet and be up to 3 inches thick. In most cases a moss control product will be applied to the lawn at least a day before to ensure that the moss turns black and is dead before raking. This will help prevent the spread of the moss through air born spores during power raking. Then generally depending on the severity of the moss, power raking is done in 2 to 3 passes with manual collection of the loosened moss between passes. After completion the lawn in most cases is pretty bare and down to the soil in spots that were heavily infiltrated by moss. After power raking it is recommended that the lawn be aerated, limed & fertilized. Then the lawn needs to be completely re-seeded and top-dressed with a layer of a sand & organic soil mix often called turf blend.

De-Thatching

With De-Thatching the machines raking tines are set higher so as not to dig into the soil so that they just loosen the thatch layer with minimal damage to the lawn and the lawns root zone. De-Thatching is generally done in just 1 or 2 light passes with the machine

Everyone wants a thick and healthy lawn. Overseeding is the practice of adding new grass seed into a lawn. Overseeding introduces new endophyte-enhanced grass species that require less water, less fertilizer, resist insects, disease pressures, and discourage weed infestations.

Overseeding is recommended annually for every lawn, even the best conditioned.

For lawns that are thin, weak, and have minor areas of concern, overseeding works wonders. New grass seed assists in thickening up these areas before they continue to worsen and problems arise, and continually adding new grass seed replaces older, tired grass to keep it healthy and robust.

Weed Control

As weeds spread across your lawn, they compete for the sunlight and nutrients that your grass needs to flourish. Unfortunately, watering and mowing only speeds up their growth. But you don’t have to let weeds ruin your otherwise great lawn. With weed control and pre-emergent weed control programs from Lawn Masters Canada, you’ll be able to get rid of the most common and most stubborn weeds surrounding your yard. Our lawn care specialists are experts in the weeds native to your region and the weed removal treatments that work best to keep them away for good.

Our team can provide monthly landscape maintenance plans which involve shrub trimming, overseeding, clean-ups, irrigation start-ups, irrigation winterization, and more. For more information on our landscape and lawn packages, fill out our online form or email us.

For any of our lawn care or landscape maintenance services, please ensure you remove all hazards and dog waste from your yard prior to your service being performed.