Lawn Care, Weed Control & Grass Fertilizer Service
Life After Bugs offers custom lawn care plans that include seasonal lawn fertilization, weed control, and protection against grass feeding insects to enhance your lawn, trees and shrubs.
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Life After Bugs offers custom lawn care plans that include seasonal lawn fertilization, weed control, and protection against grass feeding insects to enhance your lawn, trees and shrubs.
Lawn Care Services
Our lawn control services include:
Deep Root Feeding for Trees
Deep root fertilization helps trees by promoting growth, disease resistance, and overall health of your trees and shrubs much like a multivitamin. The best time to deep root feed is when the bushes or trees are dormant in the fall and winter, and the type of feed needed varies depending on the specific plant.
Tree & Shrub Disease Control
Bush and tree disease control protects your trees from insects, fungus, bacteria and viruses. Treatment can include manual removal of fungus, adjusting soil and drainage surrounding, and applying spray treatment or slow-release injections in the soil.
Custom Lawn Treatments
Custom lawn treatments such as applying a winterizer fertilizer so your lawn is green and healthy in the spring, weed control to prevent weeds down the road, and insect repellant or control spray to prevent bugs from eating your lawn.
Caring for Grass by Type
The most common types of grass found in the yards of Houston area homes are St. Augustinegrass and bermuda grass (aka skutch grass). While they are both warm climate turf grasses, bermuda grass needs direct sunlight to survive but much less water. That means that if your trees provide much needed shade, your bermuda grass will die. If you are lucky enough to have a yard with trees that provide shade, your best bet would be to put down St. Augustine grass.
St. Augustine Care & Fertilization Schedule in Houston, Texas
- Fertilizer Schedule
- Fertilize St. Augustinegrass in early fall (September or October) to keep it healthy but do not fertilize it in December, January, or February unless cool weather seeds were planted over the warm climate grass to maintain a green lawn in the winter. Apply a nitrogen fertilizer every 2 months in March, May, July, and September.
- Insect Control
- St. Augustine is dormant the winter and has no natural winter pests. If you experience winter disease contact your lawn care company to schedule an inspection and determine if an invasive species is feeding on your lawn.
- Disease Control
- Apply insecticide in August to kill white grubs that feed on St. Augustine grass.
- Weed Control
- Apply a preemergent herbicide in October or November to prevent spring patches and weeds. Apply postemergent herbicide as needed from March to September, keeping a close eye out for Ching bugs and white grubs. These bugs are prolific in the spring and early summer, so treat aggressively if needed.
Bermuda Grass Care & Fertilization Schedule in Houston, Texas
- Fertilizer Schedule
- Bermuda grass does not need a fall nitrogen treatment in the Texas Gulf Coast climate. A winterizer treatment with potassium rich potash can winter-proof your lawn and make it more frost resistant.
- Insect Control
- Apply insecticide lawn treatment in the winter to kill any insects causing damage in the fall, before the first frost for best results. Common bermudagrass pests include mole crickets, white grubs, bermudagrass mites, and bermudagrass scales. Apply insecticide in May then again in July to control young nymphs before they become large grass-feeding adult insects.
- Disease Control
- Prevent large patch with fungicides in the fall for a healthy spring lawn. Any disease left untreated in the winter will continue to fester in the spring, so it's important to treat patches with fungicide before the Bermuda grass goes dormant.
- Weed Control
- Apply a pre-emergent herbicide in early fall (September or October) to prevent broadleaf and grassy weeds. A second application of winter pre-emergent herbicide is recommended two months after the first application.
Request Home Lawn Care Plan
Contact Life After Bugs to request lawn treatment or request an add-on lawn care plan with your pest control service. We have locations in Houston, Katy, and Richmond, Texas serving the greater Gulf Coast area. Call us to request a fall lawn winterizer service or free lawn inspection.
Fighting and controlling pests with Life After Bugs
For more than a decade, we've handled every pest control job to the best of our abilities — and we guarantee we'll do more.
Tell us what's bugging you and request service online or by phone. We'll get you on the schedule fast.
Our trained experts identify the infestation and explain the extent of the problem in plain language.
We build a treatment plan customized to your home, your pests, and your schedule.
We get the job done and stand behind it, so you can finally enjoy life after bugs.
A team of certified experts and professionals
Providing service on your time
Online scheduling with account management support so you can easily book services and inspections at a time that works for you.
Customized treatment plans that work
We explain the extent of your pest problem in a language you'll understand, then provide a treatment plan customized for you.
Efficient, thorough inspections
All of our experts are trained to identify what infestation is present and how to combat it, and we start working as soon as we finish.
Cost-effective, guaranteed service
Our services are cost-effective, and we ensure everything we do is of use to you and your home. That's a guarantee to all our clients.
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