The TurfMasters Approach: A Better Way

The TurfMasters methodology to lawn care in the new millennium is one that is committed to an environmentally-friendly approach. Our state-of-the-art equipment and advanced application techniques allows us to do just that. The TurfMasters well trained service team members are able to target the use of control products, rather than needlessly blanket the entire lawn, like the mega, national companies. With most other companies, you get whatever is in the tank that day. Their high employee turnover rate forces this one-size-fits-all mentality.

At TurfMasters, we employ certified, knowledgeable turf technicians. Our experience combined with our specifically designed trucks allow us to customize our program to fit your lawn’s unique needs. Further, our automated application equipment permits our team members to be more efficient, providing the time necessary to do the little things that sets us apart. You’ll be amazed at the difference in service!

Superior Program & Products Yields Superior Results

FERTILIZER STRATEGIES

At TurfMasters, we use professional-grade products from Lesco – the same ones used on 90 of the top 100 golf courses in the U.S. Our fertilizers are slow-release formulations that give your lawn a steady, even greening without the surge top growth. Our Late Spring and Summer custom blends are fortified with iron for enhanced color and high in potash (potassium) to help your turf combat summer stress. Many of our competitors, especially the large, national companies, use high nitrogen quick-release fertilizers in these applications, resulting in excessive top growth at the expense of the turf’s root system. This actually causes great water loss in the grass plants and depletes energy reserves and makes the turf more susceptible to disease incidence, such as brown patch. Ever wonder why your lawn looks so bad in the summertime? Well it doesn’t have to – even if you don’t water.

With the TurfMasters fertilization program, we put our heavy nitrogen fertilizers on in the fall applications. University research shows at least 60% of your lawn’s nitrogen requirements should be applied in the fall, when grass growth slows, allowing for more use of the nutrients by the turf’s root system. Did you know that most grass plant root development occurs over the fall, and especially the winter months? This agronomically sound approach causes the turf to store the nutrients over the winter giving you a thick, lush green lawn in the spring so you don’t have to apply harmful amounts of quick-release nitrogen in the spring.

WEED CONTROL STRATEGIES

Another superior aspect of the TurfMasters program relates to our weed control strategies. Our approach focuses on weed prevention. The best defense of a weed-free lawn is one that is thick and healthy; our university-proven fertility program provides for that. Next, our team members work with you to make sure the proper cultural practices are being done, mainly correct mowing and watering techniques. At the heart of the TurfMasters weed grass prevention effort is an initial pre-emergent crabgrass control application applied with the Early Spring service. We then follow that up with a 2nd pre-emergent in the Late Spring along all edges and “hot spots” where the prevention barrier breaks down. Most of our competitors do not do this, certainly not the national companies.

While we can pre-emergently control most of your crabgrass, broadleaf weeds such as dandelions, are controlled with post-emergent products (the weeds must be up and growing in order to be controlled). Our advanced equipment technology allows our turf technicians to truly customize our weed control. We have the ability to use fine-mist liquid products applied only to where the weeds are present. This technique produces superior control while reducing usage of the weed controls around your home. In contrast, many of the other companies apply the weed controls to the entire lawn, needlessly. Did you know that blanket weed controls can injure the grass plant’s root system? At TurfMasters, we use control products judiciously; getting outstanding results with the use of our advanced methods, while limiting rates which is better for you and your lawn.

The Turfmasters approach to professional lawn care combines the best in turfgrass management technology and practices with knowledgeable, helpful team members who have a passion for giving you a lawn to be proud of.

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