Residential Lawn
Care and Maintenance BACK TO TOP
 Landscape
Support Services is a fully licensed provider of lawn, tree and
shrub programs as well as superior irrigation service to customers
in southern Hew Hampshire, including Hillsbourgh, Rockingham and
Merrimack Counties. Our programs are designed to protect your valuable
landscape from weeds, insects and disease utilizing the principles
of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) wherever possible to reduce
the use of chemicals and pesticides at your home.
Lawn Care
Why should I have my lawn fertilized by a lawn care provider?
Can’t I buy the same products myself and get the same results?
Perhaps in many cases you can, if you are willing to spend the time
to do the applications and learn about the variety of pathogens
that can detrimentally affect your turf. If you don’t have serious
insect or disease problems, you can find many of the products and
the variety of equipment you will also need to properly apply them
at your local hardware store. In many cases these may even be very
similar to the products we would use on your lawn.
What am I buying from a licensed lawn care professional then?
When you buy a quality lawn care program, you are buying more than
just products. You are receiving properly applied applications and
the experience and advice of a trained professional who visits your
property periodically throughout the summer inspecting your property
and giving you advise on how to improve the health and value of
your landscape. Quality products + Precise applications + Experienced
professionals =
True Value!
Landscape Support Services offers two basic lawn care programs that
can be customized to suit the individual needs of your lawn.
Traditional Lawn Care Program
As part of our traditional program, our staff will monitor and treat
your lawn for:
- Crabgrass and other noxious grassy weeds
- Broadleaf weeds including, dandelions, plantain, clover
- Surface feeding insects like chinch bug and sod web worm
- Sub surface grubs including Japanese beetle and European Chafer
Our traditional turf program consists of five steps:
- Round 1- consists of a balanced fertilizer combined with a
product that will help to control crabgrass.
- Round 2- your second round of fertilizer and crabgrass control
will also monitor your lawn for broadleaf weeds and treat them
as needed
- Round 3 - a summer fertilization that encourages root growth
while marinating good plant health during periods of heat and
dry weather when grass can become stressed. We will also monitor
your lawn at this time for weed and insect problems and treat
them as needed. If you have chosen to protect your lawn against
grubs we will also apply Merit to catch grubs as they emerge.
- Round 4 – an early fall application that prepares your lawn
for the fall growth period. Fall is an excellent time to improve
the health of your turf. This is the best time for your lawn
to recover from drought or disease stress filling in weak areas
in the lawn.
- Round 5 - prepares your lawn for the coming winter. Root growth
in your lawn will extend late into the fall or early winter.
This application will make sure your lawn is prepared to take
full advantage of the entire growing season, building a larger,
stronger root zone.
Organic Lawn Care
Organic fertilizers feed your lawn the way nature intended!
Our organic lawn care program includes 5 applications of organic
fertilizers specifically blended to provide balanced slow release
nutrition for your lawn.
Organic fertilizers not only provide nutrients, but also supply
your lawn with microbes and soil building agents essential for healthy
turf. Our organic program protects your lawn by keeping it healthy.
This program contains no controls for weeds, insects or disease.
We will monitor your lawn for potential serious problems and advise
you as needed if additional cultural or control measures are required.
Tree and Shrub Health Care BACK TO TOP
 Your
trees and shrubs deserve superior health care as well. Bronze birch
borer, hemlock wooly adelgid, Maple thrips, leaf miners, leaf galls
and root rots all threaten to damage or kill the trees and shrubs
that make up your landscape.
How do you best protect your landscape without costly blanket
applications of insecticides and fungicides?
Landscape Support Services has designed a program around the IPM
(Integrated Pest Management) concept which will protect your landscape,
reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum.
- Step 1:
A deep root application of plant nutrients and bio-stimulants
which will provide proper nutrient levels without stimulating
excessive growth. This application includes products from companies
including Plant Health Care, Roots and Organic Gem specifically
formulated to meet the needs of both mature and newly planted
landscapes.
- Steps 2-4
Our trained plant care technicians will make periodic visits
and inspect your yard for potential or existing problems or
insect and disease infestations. Any plants requiring treatment
will be attended to and a detailed report will be left for you
detailing treatments and any cultural changes we thing will
be required to keeps your plants in optimum health.
- Step 5
An application of Dormant oil applied after fall leaf drop for
plants susceptible to insects like scale and mites.
Tree and Shrub Pruning Programs
Landscape Support Services can provide shearing and pruning services
for all trees and shrubs in your landscape. Under the guidance of
our New Hampshire Certified Arborist we can provide services as
simple as annual shearing and pruning of shrubs, to comprehensive
pruning plans for all your plants to reduce cost over time. Though
we would prefer not to remove trees and shrubs, sometimes it is
unavoidable; we have the proper equipment and personnel to safely
remove even the most difficult trees. Don’t forget that winter is
an excellent time to prune many trees and shrubs. Ask us about how
winter pruning may be the right method to enhance the splendor of
your plants once spring arrives.
Irrigation Maintenance BACK TO TOP
 We
also provide irrigation service unrivaled in the industry! A properly
maintained and audited system will actually save water and money
over time according to the Irrigation Association of America. As
communities grow and additional stress is put on local water supplies,
making sure your system is running at peak efficiency is essential
to cut costs and reduce the need for watering bans and restrictions.
As a certified IA auditor we can insure that your system is doing
just that!
Irrigation Service
Talk with a person not a machine
Our office is open 8-5 Monday through Friday for scheduling an opening,
closing or service, allowing you to easily schedule work, giving
Landscape Support Services experienced irrigation service teams
the opportunity to keep your system running at peak performance.
Our teams are experienced with all the major manufacturers of irrigation
equipment, including Rainbird, Hunter and Toro and keep our trucks
stocked with all the parts required to fix your system right the
first time. Usually we can respond and have your system up and running
within 24 hours of your call.
Prompt service + trained professional installers = Superior service
Irrigation openings
Our standard opening consists of the following
- Turn on water supply to irrigation system and check controller
and valves for proper operation
- Check and adjust sprinkler heads for proper coverage and distribution
- Set controller for proper seasonal watering schedule. Replace
battery as needed (additional charge)
- Repair line breaks and broken sprinkler heads as needed (additional
charges may apply)
Our Reactivation includes
- Turn on water supply to irrigation system and check vacuum
breaker, controller and valves for proper operation
- Trim sod around all sprinkler heads to insure proper operation
- Check and adjust sprinkler heads for proper coverage and distribution.
Replace damaged or worn heads (additional charges may apply)
- Set controller for proper seasonal watering schedule. Replace
battery (no charge)
- Check and flush as required all lines, heads and nozzles to
remove debris.
Our Winterization includes
- Turn off water to irrigation system and drain inside pipes
and vacuum breaker
- Deactivate controller and valves. Remove battery on soild
state controllers
- Blow out all lines, valves and sprinkler heads with compressed
air to avoid freeze damage
- Open all manual drains and faucets
- Remove and drain pump, suction line, check valve and filter
on pump systems (separate charge)
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