Maple Tree Landscape
3628 14ave N T1k 3c0 Lethbridge, AB, Canada

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR!! Power Raking is a great way to remove dead debris and crust that builds up on a lawn over Winter. It's also a gentle way to remove a small amount of thatch from the lawn, without causing the significant damage that dethatching can cause. We recommend Power Raking in early Spring, before new growth has begun... Give me a call... RYAN ‘The Power Raker’ Gannon 403 393 0438

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Why Maple Tree doesn’t push power raking sales, on your lawn. There are many homeowners and lawn care providers, as well who believe that power raking should be a part of every Spring clean-up. Maple Trees experience has been that power raking is rarely necessary for most lawns. For example, advocates of power raking usually claim that it will solve the problem of excess thatch. Although it may indeed remove thatch, usually it will also remove perfectly healthy grass plan...ts or slice-and-dice them so that they will soon die. After a lawn has been power raked there is a considerable amount of exposed soil throughout the lawn. It may take weeks sometimes months for a lawn to recover from this treatment. Also, while it is recovering there is a very good chance that both broadleaf weeds and crabgrass will sprout and take hold in those bare areas. The fact of the matter is, a half an inch or so of thatch is actually beneficial to your lawn. If, however, your lawn feels spongy as you walk across it, you may indeed have an excess of thatch. Maple Tree Landscape offers a much better solution than power raking is core aeration. A core aeration machine punches holes into the surface of the soil then pulls out and deposits small plugs of soil all across the lawn. These cores should not be raked up or disturbed. They should be allowed to remain on the surface of the lawn until they have been rained on or watered a couple of times. When the soil in these cores becomes wet, it will run down to the thatch layer and introduce microbes into that layer. The net effect of this process is that the thatch layer is now being composted by having soil both above and below. This is a very natural process and it does not tear up your lawn. Any remaining debris from the coring plugs can then be raked up, mowed up or just left to decompose. Give me a call, and I’ll take care of your lawn. Ryan ‘The Thatcher King’ Gannon 403 393 0438 ‘We don’t just cut your lawn, we manicure it’ An important consideration here is that the core aeration process does much more than naturally reduce the thatch layer. If the soil your lawn is trying to grow in has been compacted due to heavy foot or vehicle traffic, then core aeration is probably the best method to correct this situation. Also, after core aeration more water can find its way into the lawn’s root system as opposed to running off the hard surface. Yet another benefit is that it allows more oxygen and fertilizer to find it’s way into your lawn root zone. So the bottom line here is that if your lawn needs to be treated for excess thatch or if the soil your grass is growing in is compacted, you’ll get much better results by using the core aeration technique than by power raking.

The suns out, my chainsaws out! Let’s cut those annoying and dead trees down....! And I’ll take them all out. I know things are tight, so I’m slashing my costs for you....I’ll be dropping trees like dominos. Ryan ‘The Tree Gangster’ Gannon 403 393 0438

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Did your trees take a beating this winter? Or you’re concerned the next snowfall, or windstorm will? Give me a call. Ryan ‘The Tree G’ Gannon... 403 393 0438 See more