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Residential Lawn Top Dressing Services

Have weeds and diseases ruined the look of your lawn? Our lawn top dressing services may be the solution. The Grounds Guys® are your local experts in lawn top dressing! We equip our trucks with the proper tools, and our trained landscaping professionals know how to do the job right the first time.

Residential Lawn Top Dressing Services
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  • Top dressing involves placing a thin layer of organic material on top of an established lawn. This helps improve the soil composition, as the organic material works its way beneath the existing turfgrass and into the soil profile.

  • Top dressing helps to improve soil quality over time. As organic matter breaks down, it filters through the existing soil to improve your lawn's texture and overall health.

  • The ideal time for lawn top dressing is when your lawn is actively growing. Some lawns benefit from biannual service. We recommend service when heading into prime growing conditions. Our landscape experts perform topdressing in spring and/or fall.

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Why Hire a Professional for Lawn Top Dressing Services?

We know many homeowners may opt to tackle top dressing on their own. However, top dressing a lawn is a labour-intensive and time-consuming job. Doing it effectively also requires using the proper tools to break up the thatch layer. Contact us to learn more about our lawn care and landscaping services, and request a free job estimate today!

Why Hire a Professional for Lawn Top Dressing Services?
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How The Grounds Guys Can Help You

The Grounds Guys is a full-service grounds care company. Our established systems allow us to deliver industry-leading lawn care and landscape solutions to commercial and residential clients. Built on a family tradition of caring, we are driven by a passion to exceed customer expectations and consistently deliver client satisfaction.

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    Reliable landscapers who really understand horticulture are hard to come by. The Ground Guys team is one of them! They did a great job cleaning up my front yard, trimming down the main tree blocking my window. They took time to explain how the tree was trimmed and what to do for next season which I appreciated. I’m happy to recommend and use them again.

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    The Grounds Guys are fantastic! We had them do a complete backyard redesign that included an inground pool. Their ideas and workmanship were amazing. I would highly recommend them for any job big or small.

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    The team from Grounds Guys did an amazing job. They were courteous and cleaned up everything after they finished. They even came back the nex morning to seed around the posts and any area that the lawn got damaged. I will definitely recommend and use them for any future projects.

    Susan C.
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Are you ready to renovate and revitalize your lawn? When you add our professional lawn top dressing services to your lawn maintenance program, your landscape will surely be a showstopper! Learn more below.

  • Need residential lawn top dressing services? Repeated lawn top dressing combined with lawn aeration, dethatching, and overseeding can help make your lawn beautiful again. Our friendly professionals look forward to helping you maintain and enjoy a beautiful lawn all year round. Lawn top dressing benefits include the following:

    • Helps aerate compacted soils
    • Releases nutrients in compost with minimal nutrient leaching
    • Introduces compost microbes that digest thatch
    • Provides much-needed organic nutrients to the lawn
    • Improves drainage, which helps reduce the risk of fungus
    • Helps create thicker, healthier strands of grass
    • Improves drought tolerance of turfgrass
    • Can reduce the quantity or need for chemicals and fertilizers to be applied on the lawn
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