Lawn Seeding and Sodding
It doesn't matter if you live in Pennsylvania's Philadelphia suburbs or the outskirts of Lancaster County, a new lawn installation can provide the most dramatic change in the look of your property. Going from brown piles of fill or loose topsoil to finely graded, softly rolling hills of crisp, green blades of Kentucky Bluegrasses, Perennial Ryes and Fescues makes your yard finally feel like home.
With a full lawn, the kids can play outside in the yard without having to be hosed down before returning indoors. You can spend time in your yard in bare feet, letting the new blades of grass tickle your toes as you stroll from one landscape bed to another. And the summertime smell of freshly cut grass is hard to beat.
We can provide you with a new lawn installation and all the joys that can bring. We utilize two different methods for installation and allow you to decide which method better suits your new lawn needs.
Hydroseed
Starting from an initial rough grade, we fine grade the soils on your property. We then amend the native Pennsylvania soils with higher grade topsoils that have greater organic matter content, helping to provide your new lawn with all the nutrients it needs to germinate, grow and mature.
All grading work is done according to the engineered drainage plans developed for your subdivision. Following the engineering plans for rainwater runoff help to guarantee water on your property is efficiently shed to the designated drainage points for your development.
The use of high tech equipment is also employed in grading your property. Self-leveling lasers and multi-tined, rotating rock rakes (such as a Harley rake) allow us to measure the accuracy of our grading to within ¼" every 100 feet. While the tools we use may not be all that important to you, the results they produce should be: our equipment and the procedures we follow for grading and hydroseeding mean that you won't have pools of standing water in your yard due to improper grading. A Reading area farmer dragging a box rake over your yard can't produce the results we can.
Once grading is complete we mix our hydroseed slurry. This slurry consists of recycled paper fiber (good for Pennsylvania's environment), wood fiber, a food-grade coloring dye pack, starter fertilizer, and tackifier (which helps the slurry "stick" to the soils). It also contains high quality grass seed, selected for it's ability to achieve excellent results for eastern Pennsylvania lawns.
With the slurry mixed in our hydroseeder tank, it's applied to the soil with a jet sprayer, mixing with the uppermost layers of soil, providing good soil-to-seed contact, critical to seed germination.
Sod
We follow almost identical grading procedures when preparing a property for sod, including amending the existing soils and grading according to approved city grading plans. But instead of mixing and spraying seed to the soil, we roll out your new lawn like a living carpet over your property.
The sod we use for our installations is grown locally and is of the highest quality. The grass turf is grown for two years on the farm before it's harvested for use in your lawn. And the day it's harvested from Pennsylvania fields is the day it's installed; fresh, giving it the best opportunity to heal in and set roots into it's new soil and surroundings.
After new sod installation and two weeks of light watering, your lawn is ready. Ready for your kids. Ready for your pets. Ready for that barefoot stroll we were telling you about.
Give us a call. We'd love the chance to discuss your new lawn installation. And don't forget to ask us about installing an irrigation system to keep your lawn looking it's best.
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