Services

 Lawn Mowing - Lawn Mowing will be done on a 7 day schedule through out the lawn mowing season. In Minnesota there is normally around 22 to 24 times during the season that the yard will need to be mowed. The lawn will be cut around 3" to 3 1/2". This is the length that will make your lawn look great and keep the weeds out. The longer and thicker the grass helps prevent the lawn from getting taking over by weeds. The lawn mowing will include cutting of the yard, trimming around obstacles, and blowing off sideways and driveways.

Core Plug Aeration - This should be done twice a year once in the spring and fall when the soil temperature is cool and not under heat stress. This process will take plugs out of the lawn that are about 3” in length. The plugs will decompose within a week or two and leave the lawn looking like new again. The normal mowing schedule will continue and the plugs will get mowed up into small pieces.

Dethatching - Thatch is the layer of living and dead stems, roots, stolons, and rhizomes between the green blades of grass and the soil surface. The dethatching process is done with a tine attachment on the lawn mower that looses up that thatch layer. Then with either a bagger or sweeper the lawn clipping are picked up and taking away.

Benefits of Dethatching:

• Will reduce the water evaporation in turn will mean less water of the lawn in summer time.
• Provides better air flow that will reduce the chances of fungal growth and insect infestation.
• Helps in the resists of weed germination
• Protects the lawn from frost damage

 

Fertilization - Fertilization is key element in keeping the lawn thick and a nice green looking color. When it comes to fertilizer there is some key thing that you have to know. The most important is what ingredients around being put down. This is determined by the weight in the bag or liquid form. The three major nutrients in a fertilizer: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The label read as N-P-K for what percentage is in the bag. In Minnesota it’s against the law to put down phosphorus on the lawn unless under a certain situation. Flat Top Lawn Care provides a pound of nitrogen for every 1,000 sq ft of lawn. We also recommend that during the year four pounds of nitrogen is applied to the yard to provide optimal growth and appearance.

 

Weed Control - Flat Top Lawn Care provides weed control programs that start off with a pre-emergent. This is applied in the spring time normally around late April. This application is to prevent the development of crabgrass in the yard. Also have products that are applied to the lawn that kill of dandelions and thistles. These are the three major weeds that need to be controlled in a yard. There is many more weeds that can be diagnosed with a lawn care analysis.

 

Spring/ Fall Cleanup - The spring/ fall cleanups consist of picking up and removing leafs and other debris from the yard. We use rakes & lawn mowers with bagging systems. We also blow leafs and branches out of rock or mulch around the house. Once all the leafs are picked up we will haul them away so you don’t have to worry about disposal. We now have a Cyclone Rake XL leaf vaccum system, This is the top of the line leaf cleanup machine, we have attatchments to vaccum leafs and debris from rock beds, mulch beds and wherever leafs have fallen. Why use us for fall cleanup? Easy nobody likes raking leafs and most importantly the time it takes cleaning up your leafs and disposing of. leave it up to us to to do your fall cleanup. We are fully insured and operate legally and have well maintained commercial equipment. Fall cleanup can be really hard on yourself and your equipment. We do a fall cleanup on your whole property and haul all the leafs away. You will have peace of mind and you will be able to relax and not thinking about your leafs this fall.

 

Snow plowing - Flat Top Lawn Care provides its customers with prompt affordable snow plowing, we will start our snow removal route when the snow accumulates to 2 inches. we provide our snow services to many minnesota cities including, Hugo, MN 55038, Centerville, MN 55038, Forest Lake, MN 55025, Circle Pines, MN 55014, Lino Lakes, MN 55126 55014, White Bear Lake, MN 55110 55115, Shoreview, MN 55126, Scandia, MN 55073, Maplewood, MN 55109 And many more listed in our lawn and snow service area.