Green Image Lawn Care Acquires Trailside Lawn Care Accounts   Green Image Lawn Care is happy to announce that we are trusted to service the needs of Trailside Lawn Care Customers starting in 2024. We know that Ammon Stoltzfus had numerous options to transfer his lawn care accounts before he moves. We do not take this lightly and are honored to continue building upon the hard work of Ammon over the years! Luke Zimmerman, a founding member of Green Image Lawn Care, has a long relationship with Ammon. Luke and Ammon’s relationship started over 10+ years ago when Luke helped consult with Amm ..read more

Dear Valued Customers: Come mid- October, will be changing our branding / name to Green Image Lawn Care to better reflect who we are as a team and ownership of Luke Zimmerman and Ryan Freed.  Below are some bullet points of what to expect. •         New logo on invoicing, vehicles, and printed material. •         Technicians and office staff are NOT CHANGING. Same expert agronomy team and process you have become accustomed to over the years. •         Your portal access ..read more

Aeration / Over Seeding?  What is All The Hype About?   As Summer officially winds down, the aeration / over seeding season begins to ramp up.  Aeration equipment has been serviced, seed orders begin to get delivered to our warehouse, and we begin to inform our customer base of the necessity of such a service. Before we dive deeper, let’s check how our good friends at our alma mater explain the benefits. Mechanical aeration provides an excellent, and probably the only, means of correctly or alleviating soil compaction which may be quite serious on many lawn areas.  Compacti ..read more

Summer is Approaching…... Summer Turf Tips!   Kiddos are out of school, and the unofficial start to summer has begun!! Typically, the first week of June, we are gearing up for conditions that can cause stress to your turf setting and plant material as we approach the month of July. Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a unique situation in 2023, with a lack of rain fall in May, breaking a record back to 1902. It is important that we circle back what is happening to the turf and what we can do as a client relationship concerning cultural practices that you the homeowner can administrated to ..read more

The seasons can be tough on a lawn.  There are always insects, different types of weeds and stresses to worry about.  One of the worst being turf diseases.   Turf disease will occur when you have a susceptible host, with a pathogen present and environmental conditions are favorable for disease (called the disease triangle).   Diagnosis can be difficult and with quite a few different types of diseases that affect our area it can sometimes be near impossible to pinpoint.  Specific diseases will grow on specific hosts so knowing what species of grass that is cur ..read more

Soil Testing Terminology   1.        Percent Hydrogen (pH) – Quantitative measure of the acidity or basicity of aqueous or other liquid solutions. The term is widely used in chemistry, biology, and agronomy, translated the values of the concentration of the hydrogen ion – into numbers between 0 and 14. In pure water, which is neutral (neither acidic nor alkaline).  A solution with a pH less than 7 is considered acidic; a solution with a pH greater than 7 is considered basic, or alkaline. Source: Britannica Encyclopedia. In our area and grass types ..read more

  Dear Valued Inch’s Natural Customer,   Inch’s Natural Lawn Care was formed by Luke Zimmerman in a joint effort with the Inch’s famil.  After about a year, Ryan Freed joined the team with the purchase of his company, Green Traditions.  Together, with the help of Jay Koller - General Manager, Luke and Ryan grew Inch’s Natural over the years to the company it is today.  In 2021, Luke and Ryan purchased all the Inch family shares of the company and now own the entire company together.  Over the years, one thing remained consistant, our core staff, our desire to gro ..read more

I recently made the mistake of reading some of the comments of one of my favorite YouTube channels regarding lawn care. (Yes, they actually do exist) Although, a majority of the reviews were positive, it appears the negative reviews were a little more passionate about letting their true feelings be felt.  One comment really stuck with me for days.  It read “Professional lawn care companies are destroying the environment for profit”.  (OUCH!)  Imagine having to look yourself in the mirror after someone smacks you upside the head with that sledgehammer of a statement. I never ..read more

  If you are a golfer, it is a familiar but dreaded term in the spring and fall seasons in our climate zone. Frost delay! As former Golf Course Superintendents, we have had to announce frost delays throughout our careers. Trust us when we say, frost delays are dreaded just as much on our end, but necessary to protect the turf from damage. Not only did it upset our customers, the golfer, but forced us to delay course preparation. Frost is water or water vapor that has deposited itself on a surface, in our instance, turf. Certain weather conditions are required for the formation of frost. L ..read more

Each fertilizer application we apply throughout the season is playing an important role within our lawn care agronomy programs.  Sometimes a customer may propose, can I skip the winterizer application?  My lawn is looking good….The answer from any professional lawn care company should be, NO! Winterizer applications are applied during the months of October through early December.  Most lawn care experts and academics agree that the winterizer is the most important of the season.  Winterizer will provide an abundance of benefits setting us up for a successful growing season ..read more