Introduction: Our EcoSense Lawn Care program will nourish your lawn with the proper nutrients, manage undesirable broadleaf weeds, and give your lawn the attention it deserves. At Ziehler Lawn and Tree Care, we follow integrated pest management (IPM) strategies.
By following IPM guidelines, we are helping to do our part in reducing the use of control products in your home environment. By providing properly timed inspections and treatments, we will reduce the amount of control products needed to keep your lawn protected and beautiful.
We offer additional lawn care services which includes the following:
* Preventative Grub Control
An unprotected lawn can be wiped out completely before you even know that the grubs are present. To prevent this, we offer season-long protection against damaging lawn grubs.
White grubs are the larvae of June beetles. In June, they lay their eggs in the soil and within weeks, the white grub emerges and feeds during the warm summer months, often causing extensive damage. Frequently, predators such as moles, skunks, crows, and blackbirds further damage the lawn where grubs are present. Early summer is a great time to control these potentially devastating insects.
* Core Aeration
Core aeration is the process of making numerous small holes in the turf. These holes allow fertilizer, water, and air to quickly reach the root zone, resulting in new growth and increased root development. The holes will also open up the soil, and help reduce thatch build up and soil compaction. Compaction is the perfect environment for weed infestation. By reducing soil compaction, broadleaf weeds will also be greatly reduced.
Add our overseeding service to your core aeration to help thicken your lawn, and promote rejuvenation after the stress of summer.
* Overseeding/Slice Seeding
Seeding will help thicken your lawn, and reduce future broadleaf weeds and disease and insect problems. A thick, healthy turf is the best defense against weeds. We use premium blends of tested and certified seeds guaranteed POA (grass seed contaminants) free.
* Surface Insect Control
An application of surface insect control will reduce infestations of turf-damaging surface insects, such as chinch bugs, billbugs, sod webworms, and cutworms.
* Preventative and Curative Disease Control
An application of fungicide will help stop the spread and infestation of many lawn diseases such as brown patch, dollar spot, rust, and red thread.
* Soil Test
A soil test is performed to diagnose nutrient deficiencies in lawns that are not responding properly.
* Supplemental Application
A supplemental application is formulated to correct any deficiencies discovered from soil test results.
* Renovations
This is the process of restoring lawns, from excessive damaged caused by disease, insects, weather, or invasive turf species. This service is highly recommended to be completed in the fall for best results. Call us for details.
* Ornamental Tree and Shrub Care Program
Our EcoSense Ornamental Tree and Shrub Care program will protect and feed your ornamental trees and shrubs up to 20 feet in height. At Ziehler Lawn and Tree Care, we follow integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. By following IPM guidelines, we are helping to do our part in reducing the use of control products in your home environment. By properly timed inspections and treatments, we will reduce the amount of control products needed to keep your landscape protected and beautiful.
* Pest Control Program Options
Protect your home and lawn from uninvited invaders with the Perimeter Pest Program and Ant, Flea, and Tick Program. Ziehler Lawn and Tree Care will provide an insect shield around the outside perimeter of your home and in your lawn.
* Perimeter Pest Program (five applications)
We apply an insect spray around the border of your home to prevent the entry of crawling insects such as roaches, spiders, crickets, and earwigs. We spray all the bug doorways to keep insects from entering your home.
* Ant, Flea, and Tick Program (four applications)
This program controls surface-feeding insects such as ants, fleas, ticks, chinch bugs, sod webworms, and deer ticks. Protect your lawn, and family all-season long from these dangerous insects.
* Emerald Ash Borer Protector Program
Ziehler Lawn and Tree Care's protector program is guaranteed to protect your trees from the Emerald Ash Borer and provide a deep root fertilization to help promote good plant health, vigor, and root mass. The Emerald Ash Borer is attracted to ash trees when they are unhealthy and a pheromone is excreted. The best defense against this plant pest is for the plant to be as healthy as possible. We use only the safest techniques and products to protect your trees.
* Protector Program
In late spring, Pointer insect control is injected into the tree every 4 inches around the top of the root flare (April-June). This is the least invasive injection technique to the tree.
In the fall, the tree(s) will receive deep root or soil drench feeding, root stimulator, and systemic insect control (September-November). This provides overall plant health and insect control.
History/Facts
Emerald Ash Borer is a non-native species of insect that is destroying ash tree populations. The borer came into the port of Detroit on pallets, and the first infestation in Detroit was identified in 2002. Since then, the borer has been infesting and killing ash trees. The borer has spread by moving on vehicles, as well as the movement of firewood. The bottom line is that if ash trees go untreated, they will become infested and die.
There are many different methods to treat for Emerald Ash Borer. To achieve the most effective control, a product needs to get into the transportation system of the plant, and there are two methods of doing this. The first method is a soil injection, which means the product will be taken up by the roots. This process takes awhile to get the product from the roots to the top of the tree. The second and quickest method is by a trunk injection. Most methods on the market require drilling a hole, which causes damage to the living tissue of the tree. At Ziehler Lawn and Tree Care, we use the Arbor System's trunk injection unit, which requires no drilling into the living tissue of the tree, but still achieves quick uptake into the tree.
