Heritage Lawns and Irrigation

April 22, 2010
Heritage Lawns and Irrigation Service Day at the Olathe Memorial Cemetery honors both the environment and our heroes. By treating for weeds at the Civil War Memorial and the World Wars Memorial and applying lime to more than 2 acres of the cemetery Heritage is able to give back to the community.  We like to be active in our neighborhoods and the chance to help spruce up something as notable as the civil war memorial that is over 100 years old is truly an honor.  The next step will be some seeding this fall to thicken the turf and let the natural competition help choke out the weeds in the future. 

A special Thank you to the guys for great attitudes even in the rain and to Helena for their donation of the lime.  See more pictures on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3678267&id=106660604309#!/pages/Olathe-KS/Heritage-Lawns-Irrigation/106660604309  

Filling a spreader with limeCivil War Memorial donated in 1893

Civil War Memorial donated in 1893

Brian Haggerty, Lawn Coach

What is a Lawn Coach?  It’s the same guy taking care of your lawn all year long.  Why is that important?  Because Lawn Coaches provide communication. Communication between you and your Lawn Coach is critical.  You’ll get to know him on a first name basis and even get his cell number.  Our Lawn Coaches are professional, licensed and certified experts.  Together, we can get beyond the “see the weed, spray the weed” mentality and start building a greener, healthier lawn that will require fewer and fewer chemicals. 

Not only does our Lawn Coach program allow us to make your lawn beautiful, it also allows us to deliver excellent customer service because of the relationships that it builds. You won’t feel like just another customer.  If you have thoughts, problems or concerns about your lawn, your Lawn Coach will be able to answer them.  He’s familiar with the problem areas and specific issues because he’s been there all season.  It’s just a smarter business model.  You can’t cure lawn problems if you don’t know the lawn.

The Lawn Coach program also helps build a sense of pride and ownership.  Your lawn is a reflection on your Lawn Coach, so he actually cares what it looks like.  He’ll walk it for problem areas, test the soil, talk about your wants and needs and THEN make a game plan. He understands that a thick healthy, green lawn starts from the ground up, not the weeds down.  Plus, he knows he’ll be returning in a few weeks and he’ll be seeing you again.  He wants you to be happy.  Sending out a different guy each time just doesn’t make sense to us.  He’s just a stranger who happens to be taking care of your lawn. 

If you’re looking for a lawn care company that will do more than just spray weeds, you’ll really like our Eco pride System with your own lawn coach.  We work to get the soil in balance first, which is the foundation of the whole Eco-Pride system.  Then, as your lawn gets healthier and healthier, we can use fewer and fewer chemicals because a thicker lawn will choke more weeds out naturally.  Only Heritage gives you your own Lawn Coach and the Eco-Pride system.  And that’s why we can promise great lawns and great service.

Forsythia in full bloom

Well, the countdown has begun. No matter what the calendar says mother nature works on her own schedule and pretty soon those crabgrass and foxtail weed seeds will start germinating. They pop every year when the soil temperature has been 55 for about a week. It is very predictable but the problem is that it very seldom occurs on the same day each year. On wet cool springs it may be April 15 or on hot dry springs it may be April 1st. To make matters even a little more difficult it may happen 2 weeks earlier on a south facing slope than on a north facing slope on the same property. So we have to let mother nature tell us what is going on. We use indicator plants like the forsythia bush. This bright yellow flowering bush is a good indicator of soil temperature. After many years of observation and study we know that to get the best control of crabgrass and foxtail you should have your pre-emergent in place before the forsythia drop their flowers. Since they are in full bloom now we only have a few days left.