The Key to Successful Core Aeration

Wednesday, 10 September 2014 by

Core Aeration Our Way!- Now is the time of year to perform core aeration to your cool-season lawn! Core aeration is the only no-till way to relieve soil compaction from your hardened clay, here in the piedmont region. As certified turfgrass professionals, we guarantee results with our core aeration technique as we provide multiple passes

Mowing Heights are Key to Longevity – Raleigh Lawn Care Every year we see homeowners who love to mow their tall fescue at 2.5 inches.  This may look great and resemble carpet but add a little of our summer heat and the grass will burn fast, foster disease, harbor more weeds, and eat its own

Update On Warm Season Grasses

Tuesday, 10 June 2014 by

Capital City Groundskeeping knows warm season grasses Warm season grasses, Bermuda and Zoysia, have struggled this year up until now. Sod farms have had a difficult time harvesting the sod due to the grass being slower to mature from a cold winter and spring. We also saw a much higher disease rate than we previously

Cool season grasses, Tall Fescue especially, have seen a rapid increase in brown patch and dollar spot disease over the past 2 weeks. This increase is attributed to the Triangle’s heat and humidity that has begun. It is always a good idea to spray a preventative fungicide one in each of the summer months for

That’s right, we as certified turf grass professionals we only use Certified Blue Tag Fescue seed in conjunction with fall aeration. You haven’t met picky until you meet us, we only buy the best Fescue Blended seed, blue tag certified, that includes top performers on the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program’s annual trials. The seed is

Bermuda and Zoysia lawns can be a challenge to keep disease free and weed free into the fall and winter months. Now is the time to apply a good fungicide to keep large patch from occurring in early spring. Large Patch disease remains ‘dormant’ looking after spring green up, but is actually dead. Along with

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