Effectively maintaining your outdoor spaces means taking good care of your lawn. When our team shows up to administer regularly-scheduled maintenance, you may hear our technicians use some terms you’re not completely familiar with. Lawn care has a unique language that can be helpful to speak. Below, we’ll go through some essential residential lawn care terms that we feel are important for Frederick, MD homeowners to be somewhat familiar with.
Four Essential Lawn Care Terms
There are several lawn care-specific terms that can come up during our residential lawn care treatments. Here are a few of them:
Scalping. Although our team doesn’t offer lawn mowing services, we may advise you on how to mow effectively. A term that might come up during that discussion is scalping, which is a term used to describe cutting grass too short. This is an issue because it makes your lawn more susceptible to weed invasions, lawn diseases, sun damage, and other problems.
Aeration. Compacted soil is one of the most common problems we see in local lawns, and it damages your lawn by preventing water and nutrients from reaching your root systems. Aeration refers to breaking apart compacted soil. It’s commonly done with either manual aeration tools or machinery, and the aim of aeration is to restore the essential circulation of nutrients, water, and other resources.
Anaerobic. Your lawn needs oxygen to thrive and produce healthy grass growth. Lawns that are lacking oxygen are referred to as anaerobic, which simply means without oxygen. This issue can pop up for several reasons, like compacted soil or excessive thatch.
Pre- & post-emergent. We utilize comprehensive weed control solutions to fight these invasive plants. Pre-emergent and post-emergent simply refer to treatments targeting weeds either before or after they’ve sprouted up through the ground.
Our Residential Lawn Care in Frederick
When you work with our team, you’ll be working with lawn care pros who will be right beside you throughout the entire treatment process. We’ll work with you to create a custom-tailored treatment plan and answer any questions you may have—terminology related or otherwise.
Our neighbors in these areas utilize our proven residential lawn care services:
- Frederick
- Middletown
- Walkersville
- Ijamsville
- New Market
- Myersville
- And throughout the surrounding communities
Local homeowners count on residential lawn care provided by the experts at Lawn Doctor of Frederick. To discover what we can do in your lawn, contact our team today!
