The role of turf is often overlooked by the public. Healthy turf provides a number of benefits and a quality lawn care program that utilizes specialty pesticides along with proper fertilization and aeration techniques can play a key role in keeping YOUR turf in top condition.

Did you know healthy, well groomed turf:

• Prevents run-off and erosion. Healthy, dense lawns absorb rainfall six times more effectively than a wheat field and four times better than a hay field. With up to 90% of the weight of a grass plant in its roots, it makes a very efficient erosion prevention device, also removing soil particles from silty water.
• Helps control pollution. Turf grasses trap much of an estimated 12 million tons of dust and dirt released annually into the U.S. atmosphere. Turf grasses also help purify water entering underground aquifers by its root mass and soil microbes acting as a filter to capture and breakdown many types of pollutants.
• Adds to your property value. A Gallop Survey reported 62% of all homeowners felt investment in lawns and landscaping was as good or better than other home improvements. The investment recovery rate is 100-200% for landscape improvement, compared to a deck or patio which will recover 40-70%. Proper and well maintained landscaping adds 15-20% to a home’s value according to buyers.
• Provides safe recreational opportunities. Turf provides the safest, least expensive and most resilient surface for outdoor recreation. No other surfaces of vegetation tolerates as much abuse or ‘gives’ as much. Playing fields with thick, dense turf have long been recognized as the safest surface for athletes, as demonstrated with a simple egg drop test. When a dozen raw eggs were dropped from a height of 11 feet onto a two inch thick section of dense turf, none broke; two thirds of them broke on thin turf form that height; and from just 18 inches up, all of them broke on an all-weather track!
• Helps to cool the environment.. Front lawns of just eight average houses have the cooling effect of about 70 tons of air conditioning, while the average home size central air has only 3-4 ton capacity.
• Eases your mind. Grass areas quickly affect people’s moods by creating feeling of serenity, privacy, thoughtfulness, or happiness and its yearly cycles of growth and color change lift human spirits and link urban inhabitants with their countryside heritage. In addition, recovery rates among hospitalized patients are often quicker when their rooms view a landscaped area than patients with non-landscaped views. Where vegetation grows, child morality, suicide and energy consumption are less than in places where there are no plants.
• Lets you breathe!! A turf area just 50 feet by 50 feet absorbs carbon dioxide, ozone, hydrogen fluoride and perosyacetyle nitrate and releases enough oxygen to meet the needs of a family of four. The grass and trees along the U.S. interstate system release enough oxygen to support 22 million people.

Did You Know?
Trees bring beauty and practical benefits to modern society. They provide shade, beautify properties, and strip pollutants from the air and much more. Kept healthy by regular fertilization and a specialty pesticide program along with proper pruning, trees:

• Save energy. One large tree has the same cooling effect as 15 room-size air conditioners. Mature trees shading homes can cut energy costs by 18% to 50%.
• Increase property value. Trees, along with a well maintained lawn and landscape, can add up to 20% to the value of a home. However, without proper maintenance, the value of trees declines. Timely use of specialty pesticides will greatly reduce the risk of insect and disease damage.
• Clean the air. One acre of trees removes 5 tons of carbon dioxide form the air annually. According to the American Forestry Association, one average, mature tree absorbs 26 pounds of carbon dioxide per year; which means a single mature tree cleans up pollution created by a car driven 11,300 miles AND gives off enough oxygen for a family of four to breath EVERY year.