PLEASE APPROVE STANDARD ENHANCED SERVICES

Friday you will receive a combined proposal for the 2022 Standard Enhanced Services including Spring Moss Control, Spring Flowers, Crabgrass Pre-Emergent Application, Turf Core Aeration, Fall Flowers, and Winter Moss & Cranefly Control. Since these are normally performed enhanced services, we hope you will consider approving all of them now to help us prepare and avoid having to bother you through the season for approval of each service individually.  Hopefully this bulk approval will save you time and allow us to better prepare for the service delivery as opposed to waiting to just prior to its occurrence.

Spring Turf Moss Control in March/April

Winter can be a tough time for lawns. Constant rain, especially in the shade, can lead to moss growth. We fight this every year. Although it is difficult to prevent, it is luckily easy to control. Liquid iron, sprayed on a lawn, quickly and effectively controls moss. It will actually kill it in hours, turning the moss black. Although it is easy to kill, it will regrow every year requiring annual treatment. We have even been experimenting with twice yearly treatment, December/January and March/April. Although normally considered an enhanced service, moss treatment is relatively inexpensive. We follow up our winter treatment with one in the spring as even though treated in the winter, the moss often reestablishes and it's good to treat again in the spring.

https://www.pacscape.com/services/seasonal-enhanced-services/moss-control.php

Spring Flowers in April

Seasonal color is one of our specialties. Not only do we produce some of the most creative flower combinations but our flowers plantings are some of the healthiest due to our carefully designed installation and maintenance programs. 

We have tried to add a creative design flair to our summer color plantings. Every year we come up with new and unique combinations that break from the conventional blocks or stripes seen on most other commercial properties. We have a test bed at our office where we try out these new varieties and combinations to better be able to see how they perform throughout the season. Only when the combination has been tested and approved do we suggest it to our customers.

https://www.pacscape.com/services/seasonal-enhanced-services/seasonal-color.php

Crabgrass Preventer Application in May

Crabgrass is a common name a layperson uses for any grass that they don’t like growing in their lawn. However, here in the Northwest, it has been relatively non-existent until recently. Crabgrass is a common annual grass weed in many of the parts of the US where summers are hotter. In the past, due our cool climate, it has not been an issue. Though recently, mostly due to our warming climate, we are now seeing it where we had rarely or never have seen before. Due to our long hot summer the past several years, which Crabgrass loves, we have seen it explode on most properties. We are thus now recommending to treat lawns with a crabgrass preventer in May, as they do in many other parts of the country.

Turf Core Aeration in September

We recommend aeration to our customers as a standard part of our yearly turf care program. Aeration improves overall turf health and is also the best method of managing thatch and soil compaction. 

Aeration opens up the soil to allow water to more easily enter the soil, reducing run-off and improving irrigation effectiveness. We can’t quantitatively prove it, but we believe that aeration pays for itself through water savings. The benefits of aeration are significant but short lived lasting only one season. This is why we propose it every year. This will maximize the water saving and return on your investment. We previously performed aeration in early summer but with our newly recommended Crabgrass preventer now scheduled for May, Aeration in June would impact the effectiveness of the crabgrass control treatment thus now we will perform Aeration in September.

https://www.pacscape.com/services/seasonal-enhanced-services/aeration.php

Fall Flowers in October

Winter Flowers are challenging to maintain in our mild, wet climate. Our flower plantings are some of the healthiest due to our carefully designed installation and maintenance programs. 

Although cold hardy, pansies are susceptible to soil borne diseases which are prevalent in our mild, wet winters. Each year, without proper installation and maintenance, these diseases attack Pansy plantings, reducing their health and growth, and sometimes even killing the Flowers. We have developed a program beginning with how the flowers are grown, replenishing sterile fresh potting soil at planting, and treating throughout the winter season with fungicides to protect from these diseases. We believe we have the most consistent pansies in the area.

https://www.pacscape.com/services/seasonal-enhanced-services/seasonal-color.php

Winter Turf Moss and Cranefly Control in December

Winter can be a tough time for lawns. Constant rain, especially in the shade, can lead to moss growth. We fight this every year. Although it is difficult to prevent, it luckily is easy to control. Liquid iron, sprayed on a lawn, quickly and effectively controls moss. It will actually kill it in hours, turning it black. Although it is easy to kill, it will regrow every year requiring annual treatment. We have even been experimenting with twice yearly treatment, December/January and March/April. Although normally considered an enhanced service, moss treatment is relatively inexpensive. Our moss control program starts with the winter treatment when Moss begins to develop. If left unchecked, moss can choke out the grass over the winter.

https://www.pacscape.com/services/seasonal-enhanced-services/