Most homeowners would love to have a beautiful lawn, but many find that Missouri's complex weather conditions make understanding what their lawn needs to be challenging. The soil in our area also tends to lack many of the conditions that make it possible for lawns to thrive, and our soil amendments can help to fill in this gap by adding the elements your lawn most needs. Here are some of the most important things to know about what soil amendments are, how they can benefit your lawn, and how Green Envy Lawn Care's popular lime treatment and other soil amendment services can help make your lawn one of the most lush and green outdoor spaces in your neighborhood!
Understanding Soil Amendments
Natural soil is rarely perfectly optimized to best meet the needs of your grass, shrubs, flowers, and other plants. Most soil has a pH that is too high or too low to best support your lawn, contains too few nutrients, or is too dense for water to flow freely through it to reach your vegetation adequately. Many of these problems can be solved by using soil amendments, which add something to your natural soil to better suit your lawn's preferences. Some common types of soil amendments include:
- Lime treatment
- Garden soil
- Topsoil
- Composted manure
- Mushroom compost
These additions can help adjust acidity, boost nutrients, improve water retention, and make other small changes that help your lawn thrive under less-than-optimal conditions.
The Importance of Lime Treatment
Lime treatment plays a key role in ensuring that your soil's pH is acidic enough for your lawn. Obtaining the best possible balance between acidity and alkalinity is an important step in making sure that your lawn can absorb and hold plenty of water and nutrients to keep it lush and green instead of letting it become dry, brittle, and discolored. Lime, a type of soil amendment made from ground limestone, helps to raise the pH of your soil if it is too low. While soil that is too alkaline is less common in our area, we can also treat your lawn with sulfur to create the opposite effect if its pH strays too far in the other direction.
Our Soil Amendment Services
Lime treatment is one of our most popular soil amendments because it tends to be the most capable of managing common soil inadequacies in our area. We also offer a variety of other soil amendments, and our team can carefully evaluate the details of your lawn's current appearance and overall health to determine which ones can play the most important role in helping it thrive!
Be the Envy of Your Neighborhood With Green Envy Lawn Care
At Green Envy Lawn Care, we prioritize helping you understand both general and specialized lawn care strategies that can help you make your outdoor living space more beautiful than ever. From optimizing your lawn's water and nutrients to digging deeper into soil amendments and other lesser-known lawn treatment options that can help you create the best possible environment for the unique species that make up your lawn, our team is here to help you understand the most effective ways to make your Missouri lawn as lush and green as possible. Call us at 636-757-1600 or contact us today to learn more about the benefits of soil amendments and request a free quote!