Dethatching & Power Raking Services
Does your lawn need a makeover? Call 402-699-1772 to schedule dethatching & power raking services!
Seasonal Dethatching Improves Your Lawn’s Health
Lawn dethatching is an essential step in preparing your lawn for its peak growing season. You might also know this technique as “power raking.” Technically, it’s just collecting excess debris, but there’s more to it for landscaping professionals.
The debris comes from several sources, like freshly mowed lawns that shed a nice layer of cut grass to cover the newly exposed blade roots. Trees, shrubs, and other plant life shed leaves, twigs, and branches. If this debris remains throughout the cool season, this “thatch” prevents adequate air circulation, traps moisture, stunts growth, and invites diseases.
Prevent weeds from overtaking your landscape beds. With our professional landscape bed weed control services, we clear the way for your plants to thrive, providing them the space, water, and nutrients they need to grow without competition.
How Power Raking Benefits Lawns
Before you start sweeping up twigs, know that half an inch (or less) of thatch benefits your lawn. Tiny pieces gradually break down to supply nutrients to the soil. It’s only with considerable organic matter that you’ll see inhibited growth.
How do power raking services protect your lawn?
Improve fertilization
When a thick layer of thatch collects on your lawn, it prevents essential nutrients from penetrating the soil and feeding the grass.
Encourage air circulation
Removing thatch keeps air around the blades of grass and maintains soil-based oxygen pockets.
Allow the dirt to absorb moisture
Thatch is highly absorbent. A thick layer might soak up the fresh rainfall before it can water your lawn.
Let excess moisture evaporate
If water does seep beneath the thatch, it won’t dry out well, so bacterial and fungal microbes could thrive.
Prevent diseases
When bacterial infections or fungal colonies take hold in thatch, they’re stubborn. Your lawn will need additional services to eliminate these invaders.
Discourage insect activity
Bugs love lawn debris. Regular thatch removal deters six-legged pests from overtaking your lawn in the summer.
Prepare your lawn for healthy growth
Lawn preparation begins in the fall when grass dies back. Why not let our dethatching & power raking services give your lawn a fresh start this year?
Have you scheduled regular dethatching services? If not, you could set your property up for complete lawn renovation, a costly consequence of missing maintenance tasks like dethatching.
When Should You Schedule Dethatching & Power Raking Services?
Thick thatch layers encourage disease while keeping essential nutrients from reaching your grass. However, not every lawn needs a turf maintenance plan that always includes power raking. Typically, ShurLawn & Landscape recommends this service for aging lawns that struggle to get going in the springtime.
Dethatching also prevents and slows bacterial or fungal spread from reaching other areas of the lawn. We recommend scheduling a power raking service in the mid-fall, when the growth rate slows and root systems prepare for winter inactivity. Include dethatching in your fall cleanup service, which usually includes removing leftover grass cuttings, fallen leaves, and discarded branches.
What Else Should You Know About Power Raking Services?
Some property owners confuse aeration with dethatching, but both services encourage circulation, moisture penetration, and nutrient absorption. Landscaping professionals will typically provide both services in mid to late autumn, but their methods and targeted areas differ.
Aeration perforates the soil. It breaks up compacted dirt to encourage root health.
Power raking targets the lawn’s surface, eliminating excess debris on top of the grass.
Aerating serves most types of lawns, regardless of their condition. Dethatching services benefit older or ailing lawns that need a little extra care.
Whatever your lawn needs, let’s work together to make it flawless during all seasons!
Your grass deserves premium care. With our expert lawn care services, we apply customized treatments to improve soil quality, eliminate weeds, and encourage healthy, strong grass growth.
Why ShurLawn & Landscape Is a Cut Above the Rest
ShurLawn & Landscape has served the Omaha area and surrounding communities for over 25 years. Our extensive experience has taught us a lot, including the importance of individualized care for our customers’ trees, shrubs, and lawns.
While no two outdoor areas look the same, every lawn or landscaping problem has an effective solution. Let us show you how we tailor our approach to ensure that we understand your property’s levels of shade, sunlight, and drainage. Even with lawns that seem strikingly similar, the variations traverse lawns, roots, and way down into the soil itself.
What can our knowledgeable experts help you with today? Decorative landscape features, flower bed care, and lawn maintenance are only some of our extensive list of available services.
Give Your Lawn a Gift From ShurLawn & Landscape
Grass rejuvenation begins long before spring with dethatching & power raking services. The lawn rests peacefully all winter before coming back to life. Call 402-699-1772 for a “shur way” to see your lawn thrive with ShurLawn & Landscape!
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