Crabgrass Control
     We apply Cavalcade® herbicide from mid-March through late-April to prevent crabgrass and many other annual weeds.  Crabgrass grows from the seeds of the previous season’s plant.  We can prevent these seeds from germination with this treatment. 
 

Fertilizer
     We use balanced, dry granular fertilizers to feed your lawn. We choose fertilizers for the specific application, time of year, and growing conditions. Our premium slow release fertilizers will not cause excessive growth of your lawn, reducing the amount of grass clippings and extending the feeding time up to 6 weeks. 

Lawn Insect Control
     We can apply insect control throughout the season depending on the insect pest causing damage. Without warning, insects can cause a great deal of damage to your lawn. Mattingly-Lawn Care can treat your lawn for a wide range of surface and root feeding insects. Examples of such insects are white grubs, lawn moths, sod webworm, chinch bugs, bluegrass billbugs (adult and larvae), armyworms, etc.

Note: Certain lawns have a special problem with white grubs. Mattingly Lawn Care can apply a preventive grub control treatment in July that will protect your lawn for the entire summer and into late fall. See grub worm control.

Grub worm control
     Mattingly Lawn Care applies both preventive and curative grub control treatments. We use Mallet® insecticides to prevent damaging grub worms from invading your lawn.  Mallet is a very effective insecticide at very low concentrations.  This lowers the amount of pesticides being spread over your lawn while achieving over 90% control of grub worms!  This application is made when the summer application is applied.  There is an additional charge for this application.

Preventive.  We use Mallet® insecticides to prevent damaging grub worms from invading your lawn.  Mallet is a very effective insecticide at very low concentrations.  This lowers the amount of pesticides being spread over your lawn while achieving over 90% control of grub worms!  This application is made when the summer application is applied.  There is an additional charge for this application.

Curative [rescue treatment].  We use Dylox 6.2G for control of white grubs once they’ve been discovered in your lawn. We begin to see grub worm damage starting approximately mid-August, although this can be delayed by dry growing conditions. Often, grub worms aren’t discovered until there has been significant damage. At this time Mattingly Lawn Care can apply Dylox to stop feeding and begin the recovery process.  Some lawns may need over-seeded or renovated (see below).

Disease Control
     Mattingly Lawn Care can apply fungicides to help control diseases that occur in your lawn.  Lawn diseases occur for many reasons and some lawns are more susceptible to disease than others.  Some factors that influence disease presence include: soil type, thatch, watering practices, species of grass, and mowing and watering practices. Treating disease preventively is most cost effective but knowing when to treat can become very difficult because of quickly changing weather conditions that prompt disease outbreak. If you have a disease problem, we will look at your lawn and identify the problem and which treatment is recommended. Some disease problems are difficult to treat because symptoms show up after the fungus has already damaged the lawn. Examples of some common diseases are red thread, dollar spot, and the ‘patch’ diseases.

Over-Seeding

     Over-seeding introduces and develops new plants and thickens existing lawns. Mattingly Lawn Care uses only the very best grass seed selected for lawns in central Indiana.  We can select the perfect grass seed for the intended look and use of your lawn. The best results are achieved when performed immediately after core aerating the lawn.

Slice Seeding

     Slice seeding is a method of seedbed preparation that uses a slice seeding machine to cut the seed into tiny grooves in the soil. The slice seeder, with its fixed blades, works the seed into the top ¼ to ½ inch of soil. Slice seeding works well to fill in a thin lawn or start a new lawn from scratch.

Lawn Renovation

     Renovation describes corrective procedure to restore beauty to an old lawn without removing all of the sod. It can be as simple as over-seeding a thin turf area or can include power raking and core aeration if thatch is greater than ½ inch or the soil is compacted.  Our lawn renovation approach is very aggressive and can make an average lawn look absolutely amazing!  We had some outstanding results from lawn renovation jobs we completed just last fall—after the dry summer severely damaged lawns in central Indiana.

Soil Testing

     We use soil testing to determine the pH of the soil and the levels of the primary nutrients available for turf grass to use. We take numerous samples of soil throughout your lawn and send them to a professional soil testing lab. The results are analyzed according the grass type and use of your lawn.  Sample testing usually takes less two weeks. After receiving the results, we can customize a program that will give your lawn all the nutrients it needs to thrive and be healthy.  Soil testing should be done every two years.