Green Industry Yellow Pages

Summer time is around the corner, and lawn care is important to many homeowners. A common problem during the summer for many homeowners is the build-up of thatch on their lawn. Thatch can be viewed as a blanket that is smothering your lawn. It is described as a layer of living and dead organic material (dead grass, leaves and other un-decomposed materials) that rest between the turf grass and soil. Having thatch build-up on the grass can cause a lot of lawn problems. Too much thatch on a lawn can decrease the amount of moisture that the lawn can soak up; and can block fertilizers and water from getting to the soil. Having thatch grass can create a problem with pest infestations, because pests love making their home under thick layers of thatch. When you have pest infestations in your lawn, it becomes difficult to treat your grass, because pesticides cannot reach the soil where the pests live. Fungal diseases are also contracted in thatch grass, such as fungal spores, leaf spot, dollar spot, and other fungal diseases. Since thatch grass is unhealthy grass, there is also a problem with weeds growing, because the grass cannot compete with the weeds.