Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Lawn Fertilization and Weed Control

 Our Lawn Fertilization & Weed Control Program For Salt Lake City

During the grass growing season, we visit your Salt Lake City home on a 4-6 week basis to apply organic lawn fertilizer nutrients and more eco-friendly weed control treatments to your lawn. 



We use fertilizers that will be a mix of granular and liquid depending on the needs of the soil and turfgrass. We also  a wide variety of organic and hybrid fertilization applications based on the time of year too. 


We base our programs on the lawn and soil needs of the Salt Lake County region as well as local environmental concerns. For example, if it’s peak weed season, we use a hybrid mix including organic nutrients as well as some weed controls in a weaker concentration.


What Results Can You Expect From Our Lawn Care Program?

There is a stark difference between lawns that are fertilized with Eco Lawn of Salt Lake City versus ones that aren’t. An organic fertilized lawn produces deep green grass that’s thick and dense with no room for weeds.



If you invest in our organic lawn fertilization & weed control program, you’ll see that your turfgrass can withstand the dry, hot Utah summers much better. There will be no brown spots or thinning areas on your lawn.


Instead, your turfgrass is green, thick and a delight to walk on without shoes. Conversely, you can spot a non-fertilized lawn when there is weak turf growth, many weeds and bare spots. Our organic lawn fertilization is vital for maintaining full, green grass.


Lawn Fertilizer & Weed Control 

Program Benefits

Our lawn fertilizers promote healthy soil and a healthy green lawn while our Eco-friendly weed control will keep your lawn weed free.

Are You Ready For An Amazing Lawn?

We use quality products, and we deliver quality service. The adage, “you get what you pay for” is true with lawn services. 


Our lawn fertilizers promote healthy soil and a healthy green lawn. We use slow-release fertilizers that slowly unleashes nutrients and feeds the soil over time.


If you choose to go with the cheapest service, you’ll miss out on quality organic lawn products that build the natural resistance of a strong and thriving ecosystem as well as regular communication from our amazing Ecolawn team.


For more information, please call us at (801) 895-4659 

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Heat + Drought Stress

 

What to Do About Heat and Drought Stress

With the recent summer heat, we have noticed that dry spots are appearing on lawns around town. If you are seeing this in your lawn there are a few things that you can do:

1) Check your irrigation. Run a manual test during the day and watch every zone to make sure that every section of your lawn is getting covered with water. Sprinklers should be checked monthly during the season. Once a year is not enough. Heads often get damaged, blocked by objects or other growing plants, and clogged with mud. This can leave areas accidentally and unknowingly un-watered.

2.) Run your sprinklers for a few minutes in the evening to help cool down the lawn. This is in addition to your early morning watering.

3) Use a Soil Conditioner treatment. We have a product called Revive which, when combined with proper irrigation, can help to bring back the color of your lawn.

4.) Paint it. We have a non-toxic turf paint that we can be applied to dried out areas. The paint improves the look and color of the lawn until the natural green bounces back.

Please remember that drought stress is just temporary and with proper irrigation, your lawn will bounce back.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Plant Fertilization

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Plant Health Care for Flowerbeds and Shrubs
You want to hire Ecolawn to nurture your Heber-Midway, Park City or Salt Lake City gardens and landscape. We use only 100% organic fertilizers, compost teas, soil amendments and weed controls.
Our products produce healthy, weed-free flowerbeds and shrubbery while invigorating the soil to build plants that are robust and pop with color.

Ecolawn’s Plant Health Care for Flowerbeds and Ornamental Shrubs

At Ecolawn, we provide homeowners in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, and Utah counties plant health care for their flowerbeds. We designed our organic fertilizer blend to give nutrients to flowerbeds and ornamental shrubs.
And yet, our organic plant health care doesn’t extend to tree care. If you need tree health care, we partner with a local arborist to provide that care for you.
We don’t provide plant installation, pruning or mulching. We only specialize in creating an organic fertilization program that includes soil amendments to transform a low energy soil into one that produces bright, bold flowers and verdant leaves and stems.
We also provide a flower and shrub weed control program. Our organic weed control program contains 100% natural products including citrus, clove, mint, vinegar and fatty acids. There are no smelly egg odors, only citrus, clove and mint scents.
Our organic weed control kills grassy and broadleaf weeds on contact. So, you won’t have to hand-pull weeds in the hot, summer sun. Instead, our weed control kills the weeds.
It does take about two weeks to see the weed leaves start to curl up and die. We’ll visit your gardens regularly over the summer to keep weeds from invading your flowerbeds.
If you have a bed where weeds have overtaken it, we won’t be able to spray our organic weed control. For example, if weeds are growing out of the middle of a hosta, we won’t spray around the ornamental plant because our mixture will kill your hosta as well as the weeds inhabiting it.

Our Flowerbed and Shrub Health Care with Weed Control Includes These Services

When you invest in our organic plant health care with natural weed control, you’re guaranteed to have knowledgeable and highly trained technicians, additional service calls as needed, and a customized plant health care program.
Since every UT property is different, we customize our plant health care program to meet your schedule and plant needs. Also, we’ll maintain your gardens with our fertilization treatments and additional weed control throughout the summer.
Our organic weed control works best on grassy and broadleaf weeds. If you have invasive groundcover, like ivy, our products may not work to get rid of them. Instead, you can make a special request for us to remove overgrown groundcovers for you.

How Do You Benefit from Our Organic Plant Health Care and Weed Control?

Customers who are busy and want to enjoy their outdoor space are perfect for our plant health care services. We save you time and energy.
As we mentioned before, our weed control products take away the need to hand-pull weeds. Instead, you can now entertain friends and family in your backyard without having to spend hours removing weeds before your guests arrive.
When you hire us, you’ll be getting a beautiful landscape that you want to show off to everyone who visits your home. You’ll come home from a busy day at the office and observe your colorful landscapes that create the perfect curb appeal.
The real benefits you’ll receive are
  • Improved curb appeal
  • Increase in your property value
  • Decreased workload since our organic products take away the hours spent weed-pulling
  • You’ll be content and satisfied because your property looks the way you want it to—magnificent!
  • Other benefits from hiring us to work on your Heber-Midway landscape include installing native plants to improve the look of your property rather than pesky weeds taking over your flowerbeds.
  • You also get a healthier soil and plants since weeds take valuable real estate in your flowerbeds.

What Is the Cost of Not Investing in Ecolawn’s Plant Health Care Program?

If you decide not to hire us at Ecolawn for your plant health care needs, you’ll notice that weeds will overtake your flowerbeds. And you’ll need to spend a good chunk of time and money to renovate your landscape when weeds overcome it.
Likewise, your entire landscape is thrown off-balance and looks unkempt because you aren’t using organic fertilizer, soil amendments and weed control.
If you choose to go with a name brand, synthetic fertilizers and weed controls, you’ll notice a reduced earthworm population and that you’ll need to keep using more and more products to get the same desired effect.
Plus, if your property is in an HOA, you’re responsible for keeping your flowerbeds and shrubs looking uniform and well maintained.
If you hire a competitor, you may end up with 10 people on your yard pulling weeds. It’ll cost you about $12,000 per season to pay for the weed pulling and plant health maintenance where crews are on your property a half a day or longer.
And yet, if you hire us to fertilize and treat your beds with organic products, you’ll pay $2,000 less per season compared to our competitors. We’re also on your property for 15 minutes per treatment evaluating your landscape as well as applying our products.
Finally, our products are 100% natural and are safe to use around pets and children. You don’t have that same assurance when you hire traditional landscape maintenance companies.

What Are the Results of Using Ecolawn’s Plant Health Care and Weed Control Products and Services?

When you hire us to apply organic fertilizer, soil amendments and weed control to your beds and shrubs, you’ll notice that your beds and landscape are looking vibrant, colorful and weed-free.
You’ll notice your plants have less fungal diseases because our organic foliar spray protects your plants from disease. You’ll also observe your plants are healthier, stronger, and more resilient. Plus, your flowerbeds are cleaner, and your entire property looks well maintained.

How Does Ecolawn Back Up Its Claims?

Look at our gallery of before and after photos. You’ll notice right away a difference of how your Park City neighbors’ beds and landscape looked like before they hired us. You’ll also see how their gardens improved after we applied our products.
We also have customer testimonials and research to back us up. For example, our owner, Rob Ah Ping, has researched and trained with a compost tea specialist. He has observed that the soil’s food web improves with organic fertilizers, compost teas and other soil amendments.
Rob also knows from experience and study that when you use organics in any soil where you want plants to grow and thrive, you’ll notice that you’re using fewer chemicals and synthetic fertilizers.
So, organic plant health care and weed control improves your plants’ soil as well as contributes to less synthetic chemicals used for plant health.
Finally, you’ll notice that your plants have less fungal diseases. Why? Because our compost teas contain beneficial bacteria and fungi that fight off the bad fungi invading your plants.

What Can a Salt Lake City Homeowner Expect from Ecolawn’s Services?

Your expectations should align with how many weeds your gardens have as well as if you’ve been using synthetic fertilizer for a while.
Our organic weed killer works quickly to reduce weeds in your garden than traditional herbicides. Your weeds will lose their color, vitality and will start to wilt. In a matter of days, you’ll notice your weeds dying after we apply our organic weed control products.
Our organic weed control reaches all the way down to the plants’ root system making sure that the weed is destroyed without compromising the soil’s eco-system.
Since our organic fertilizer and amendments work with the soil, you’ll notice a darker, healthier soil. You’ll observe that your plants are more vibrant in color too.

Why Should You Get Your Organic Plant Health Care and Weed Control from Us Rather Than Our Competitors?

In the Wasatch Range, we don’t have any competitors at this time. However, our organic plant health program is unique. Rob makes all of his compost teas in-house ensuring that your soil gets all of the microorganisms it needs to rehabilitate.
Further, Rob is dedicated to furthering his education and finding quality, organic products. At Ecolawn, we aren’t a quick-fix company. Indeed, we’re committed to your property’s well-being, growth and beautiful curb appeal.
If you go the traditional route with a landscape maintenance company that uses synthetic weed control and traditional fertilizers, you’ll be missing the health benefits that organic plant health care and weed control system do for your soil’s food web and the surrounding eco-system.
Also, you run the risk of hiring uncertified technicians who’ll spray product willy-nilly risking storm water contamination and our natural waterways will have more pollution.
The value you receive from Ecolawn’s service includes getting better results with the least amount of impact on the environment. We use less product to get the same or even, better results.

What Are the Benefits of Using Ecolawn’s Plant Health Care System over Anyone Else (Even DIY’ers)

You can rest assured you’re hiring a local company that has integrity. Some companies may take illegal risks with the products they apply to your property. But at Ecolawn, our products are organic, safe and legal. Our technicians are trained and certified to use our products too.
Our organic products are safe to use around children and pets. You don’t have to worry about your loved ones touching or breathing in harmful chemicals.
Conversely, there’s more risk when you don’t hire us to apply organic plant health care and weed control products.
If you hire a company where the crews aren’t adequately trained and certified, you risk your technician spraying the wrong plant. Also, some synthetic products are harmful to both the weeds you want to get rid of as well as the ornamental plants you’re trying to nurture.
There are also safety concerns and long-term impact on your property’s eco-system when you hire a traditional landscape maintenance company to apply weed control to your Park City flowerbeds.

How Does Ecolawn Apply Their Organic Fertilizer and Weed Control to My Landscape?

You’ll notice that the majority of the time our technicians wear backpacks to spray weed control to your gardens and under shrubs. Since we want to use low-pressure when applying our products, our backpacks are battery-operated.
Our technicians take their time when they’re applying our products. Our techs want to do a thorough job when using products to your flowerbeds and shrubs.
When we feed your gardens, we use backpacks or chest-packs to spread our products right to the base of the plants. We want our organic fertilizers and soil amendments to go deep down into the soil to feed the roots and reinvigorate the soil. We use both liquid and granular fertilizer depending on what your gardens need at the time.



Lawn Fertilization

Ecolawn Care – Fertilization Services
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At Ecolawn Care, we take our mission for finding the safest and best quality products to produce beautiful, green lawns without weeds. Our customer service makes your relationship with us easy and hassle-free.

How Does Fertilization Work?

At Ecolawn Care, we split up our fertilization program into three zones to meet the unique needs of each area that we service:
  • Heber Valley gets six fertilization applications per season
  • Park City gets five fertilization applications since the area is higher into the mountains
  • The Wasatch Front gets seven fertilization applications because the area is lower on the mountain range and has a longer growing season.
During the growing season, we visit your home on a four to six-week basis to apply nutrients to your lawn. We use fertilizers that will be a mix of granular and liquid depending on the needs of the soil and turfgrass.
We use a wide variety of organic and hybrid fertilization applications based on the time of year too. Here’s what you need to know about our fertilization treatments:
  • Some treatments are 100% organic
  • Some treatments are a mix of organic and conventional treatments
  • Some treatments are conventional, but diluted to reduce the number of chemicals we put on your lawn
  • When we apply fertilizer treatments, we may be working on soil health or turfgrass health. Both areas need balance in their nutritional needs to grow a healthy lawn.
We base our programs on the lawn and soil needs of a region as well as local environmental concerns. For example, if it’s peak weed season, we use a hybrid mix including organic nutrients as well as some weed controls in a weaker concentration.
When we use the above method, we put fewer conventional products in the ground compared to using a strictly conventional fertilization program.

What Type of Fertilization Products Do We Use?

We use granular products during the summer as well as locally brewed compost teas in the summer and fall.

Who Needs Ecolawn Care’s Fertilization Service?

Homeowners benefit from our fertilization program if they have a desire for a beautiful lawn with no weeds and a healthy soil eco-system. The right client trusts us to do a professional job without feeling the need to oversee the lawn technician.
We guarantee our results. You have 10 days after treatment to let us know if your lawn is experiencing any problems with the treatment we applied at our last visit. If there is a problem within the 10-day window, we’ll return to your property to fix it without any additional cost to you.
We highly encourage communication. Since our technicians work on your property only once a month, we won’t know if there’s a problem unless you reach out to us. Then, we’ll be happy to fix the problem for you.

How Do You Benefit from Ecolawn Care’s Fertilization Program?

There is a stark difference between lawns that are fertilized versus ones that aren’t fertilized. A fertilized lawn produces deep green grass that’s thick and dense with no room for weeds.
If you invest in organic fertilization, you’ll see that your turfgrass can withstand the dry, hot Utah summers. There will be no brown spots or thinning areas on your lawn.
Instead, your turfgrass is green, thick and a delight to walk on without shoes. Conversely, you can spot a non-fertilized lawn when there is weak turf growth, many weeds and bare spots. Fertilization is vital for maintaining full, green grass.
Fertilization works to provide nutrients to the soil that houses turfgrass. The earth is a living ecosystem that needs nutrients to keep the organisms below-ground thriving.
Earthworms, nematodes, spiders, and microorganisms all work together to provide a busy ecosystem that benefits the earth and the plants that grow from it.
You’ll feel good coming home from work and seeing that there’s balance with your lawn—healthy soil and healthy turfgrass. And you’ll know that your soil and turf are in balance by the incredible health and vitality in your lawn.

How Does Your Property Benefit from Ecolawn Care’s Fertilization Program?

The Wasatch Mountain range varies in climate along with the harsh summer weather that plagues Utah lawns.
Organic lawn products retain moisture in the soil to help turfgrass survive the climatic extremes. When the soil is healthy and vibrant, turfgrass roots can go deep into the ground to find these moisture stores—even during the winter.
Organic fertilization also uses fewer chemicals, feeds the soil and gets the best result with less impact on the environment. Lawns get depleted as well as addicted to traditional lawn care products.
How do we know? Your turf will require more and more synthetic materials to keep it looking green and weed-free. At Ecolawn, we restore depleted soil to health with our organic fertilizers and compost teas.
Likewise, we use some diluted conventional fertilizers because 100% organic lawn care is cost-prohibitive. Currently, we don’t have a full organic program because of the high costs, and a full organic lawn care program doesn’t deliver high-quality results.
If you choose not to hire us for your lawn care needs, you may end up having a mediocre lawn with weeds, compacted soil and dull color.
At Ecolawn Care, we want to provide lawn care products and services that are cleaner and protect your Utah lawn from a lot of environmental damage.
For example, traditional lawn treatments irritate earthworms, and soil without earthworms is not sustainable. So, we offset the damage caused by conventional fertilization treatments and feed the soil with compost teas and other amendments to encourage healthy earthworm populations.
We also want long-term relationships with our customers. A relationship for the long haul ensures that your turfgrass gets consistent, sustainable lawn service.

When You Invest in Organic Lawn Care, You’ll Notice You Have a Beautiful, Healthy Lawn

When you invest in Ecolawn’s fertilization program, you’re getting a fertilizer blend that’s 80% clean. Our lawn fertilizers promote healthy soil and a healthy green lawn. We use slow-release fertilizers that slowly unleashes nutrients and feeds the soil over time.
Typically, slow release fertilizers last between four to six weeks. Some fertilizers last even longer. For example, some of our fertilizers release nutrients over two months. When we visit your property on those off months, we’ll focus on the health of your soil by adding soil amendments and compost teas.

How Do We Keep Up with Best Lawn Care Practices?

At Ecolawn Care, we stay up-to-date with the latest turfgrass science from Utah State University. A healthy lawn is a perfect example that Ecolawn’s fertilizer is working to produce a beautiful Park City or Salt Lake City lawn.
We’re always looking for better quality lawn care products, including fertilizers that develop a gorgeous lawn while reducing pollution.

What You Can Expect from Ecolawn Care’s Customer Service and Technicians

When you sign on with Ecolawn, you’ll get excellent customer service, easy scheduling and invoicing. We also send automated reminders through text or email the day before we visit your property.
We provide a username and password to access our customer portal. You’ll receive communication from us as well as reminders and invoices through our portal system.
Our technicians are professionals and certified to provide organic lawn care services. We’ll treat your property like it’s our own. We’ll also make sure that we communicate with you every step of the way.
Our products are safe for your children and pets. You may need to keep them off your yard until the product dries, but you don’t have to worry about your pets or children being exposed to dangerous chemicals.

Why Ecolawn Care is a Better Choice for Your Park City Lawn

We use quality products, and we deliver quality service. The adage, “you get what you pay for” is true with lawn services. If you choose to go with the cheapest service, you’ll miss out on quality organic lawn products and services as well as regular communication from us at Ecolawn.
When we provide our lawn fertilization program, we use spreaders for granular products. For liquid products and compost tea, we use tanks, backpacks and sprayers to apply the product to your lawn.

When You Hire Ecolawn Care for Your Lawn Fertilization Needs, You Get Great Value

When you hire us at Ecolawn Care, you get a lawn care company that is local and cares about our environment. We’re always trying to find better ways to make our lawn products and our application services more eco-friendly.
At Ecolawn Care, we believe that we owe it to the earth to find better, smarter and safer ways to do lawn care, and we’re the company that’s leading that effort in Utah. You’ll have that green lawn you always wanted, but you’ll not have the mess that comes with using harsh products.
Here are 10 benefits of working with us at Ecolawn Care:
  1. Since we live in Heber-Midway, Park City and Salt Lake City, we’re invested in our environment.
  2. You get a green, thick lawn with no weeds as well as the products we use have a lower impact on the eco-system compared to traditional lawn care products.
  3. We invest in our customers, so they develop long-term relationships with us.
  4. Our lawn care goals include supporting a living soil environment with soil containing plenty of microbes, earthworms and life. A healthy soil eco-system ensures a healthy lawn.
  5. We use little to no harsh lawn products on your Salt Lake City lawn. Our lawn care products, including our fertilizers, will not run off and pollute our local waterways.
  6. You can trust us. We work with you to get the lawn that you want.
  7. We pay our employees more than other companies in the industry. The industry average is $12 per hour, and we start our technicians at $16 per hour with regular raises. You know that we hire quality technicians to work on your lawn.
  8. If you choose another lawn service, you may not be working with a transparent company. Our competitors may not have knowledgeable crews working on your property.
  9. The other lawn care companies may use cheaper lawn fertilizers that runoff into local sewers leading to pollution in our lakes, streams and rivers.
  10. Remember, you get what you pay for. If you choose a company that doesn’t invest in its employees with training and cutting-edge pay, then you’ll have lawn technicians who may not provide the best service or use the best quality products on your lawn.

What to expect:

  1. We send an email notification at least a day in advance of each treatment.
  2. We treat your lawn.
  3. The day after treatment, we send you an invoice that you can pay online.
  4. Weeds begin to curl within 2 weeks. Expect some weeds to die slower than others. (We offer free weed touchups if weeds do not begin to die after 2 weeks. Just contact us and we’ll come as soon as possible!)
  5. We return every 4-6 weeks during the season.