Core Aeration:
A healthy, all-natural process of pulling cores from your turf to allow greater penetration of air, water and nutrients into the root zone of your grass. Aeration is excellent for penetrating thatch layers, relieving compacted soil, promoting stronger root development and plant health, and thickening your lawn. This is one of the best things you can do for your lawn every year resulting in thicker and healthier grass. We can do this for you in fall or spring.

De-Thatching:
A great lawn stimulation, de-thatching helps “wake up” your grass in the spring. We go over your lawn twice, extracting dead grass and cleaning up your lawn. Grass waste is vacuumed up and disposed of for you. Benefits include cleaning up matted grass from snow mold, grass waste from meadow mouse damage, and getting your lawn off to a great start in spring. Normally done between March 25 and April 14.

Grub Control Treatments:
Grubs have been a growing problem in Southeastern Wisconsin in recent years, especially with the invasion of Japanese Beetles. Grubs can damage and even kill sections of lawns because they eat the roots of the grass plants, eliminating the grass ability to take up moisture and protect itself against drought. We can lay down a preventive treatment in late spring to protect your lawn from grubs for the entire season (most effective), or, we can address an existing grub problem (grubs usually do their greatest damage in late summer/early fall when it is dry).

There are a couple signs of grub activity in your lawn. 1) You start to see where an animal has dug up your yard in a particular spot, 2) your grass is turning brown in spotted areas. Go to the end of the brown spot where the grass is still green and pull up on the grass. If the grass pulls up easily like a piece of carpet, you probably have grubs. In many cases, when you pull up the turf, you will see the white grubs laying in the soil layer right where you pulled up the grass, because they are eating the grass roots!


Mosquito Treatments for your yard:
Troublesome mosquitoes can keep you from enjoying your backyard? Vital and Green can apply a treatment that will prevent mosquitoes for as long as 4 weeks!

Do you have a graduation party? Birthday party? Fourth of July party coming up? This would be a great way to guarantee a successful outdoor event without feeling forced indoors by hungry mosquitoes.

Mulch Installation:
To keep your beds and landscape well manicured it is beneficial to lay down new mulch each year. After cleaning and edging your beds if needed, we lay down the attractive natural mulch of your choice, beautifying your beds and minimizing weed growth. We also install bed edging.

We have a bed edger that makes clean, deep edges from your grass and mulch. The purpose is so grass will not jump into your beds and it gives a manicured appearance around your beds.

We can mulch your beds anytime of the year with a team of employees that are well trained.

Pre-emergence Weed Control in Beds:
Are you tired of weeding your beds all summer? Let us put down a pre-emergence weed control in your beds. This is a granular product that is spread on your beds early in Spring right after the snow melts and the ground begins to thaw. It prevents weeds and grasses from germinating and growing in your beds! We can lay down broadleaf and grass preventer without harming the existing plants in your beds. For best results, a second tretment can be applied in July.

Pruning of bushes:
We trim, prune and shape bushes and young trees to keep them healthy and attractive. Pruning is normally done twice a year: summer to trim and shape bushes after spring growth, and late fall/early spring to clean up and get bushes ready for spring.

Pruning is necessary so your bushes do not grow out of control leaving you with an unattractive landscape. By trimming them twice a year your bushes will maintain their shape and fullness and prevent overgrowth resulting in bush damage.

Bush and Young Tree Fertlizing:
Spring is an excellent time to receive your shrub and young tree fertilizing! Using a special probe, we inject nutrients into the root zone of your landscape bushes and young trees to enhance health and hardiness. Includes slow-release fertilizer and a special package of micronutrients also needed by your plants.

While these nutrients are not needed in large quantities by trees and shrubs, they are still necessary for the optimum health of the plants. Along with the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, these nutrients will be taken up by the roots now that their sap is running and used by the trees and shrubs. Since spring is the busiest growing time of the year, this is an excellent time to receive this early spring feeding. We can fertilize your bushes in spring or fall or both.

Japanese Beetle:
Did you have Japanese Beetles everywhere last year? While the adult beetles have some favorite trees they eat (linden, crabapple, elm, red leaf trees, birch) they also like a number of flowers and bushes (especially roses).

We can spray your trees for Japanese Beetles so they will no longer destroy your trees. The other concern is for lawns in that their juvenile stage is a white grub that eats the roots of grass plants. We can provide a grub treatment that will give you season long prevention of grubs in your lawn as a result of your Japanese Beetle.

Asian Lady Bugs:
Tired of have these troublesome bugs all over the sides of your house in the fall? Asian lady bugs prefer to cluster on the sides of homes and other buildings, eventually working their way into the building through small cracks or crevices, or natural breaks in the window panes, door jams or foundations as the temperatures decrease. The best way to prevent unwanted Asian Lady Bugs in your home is for us to apply a treatment in late September/ early October.

We can treat the sides and perimeter of your home, including overhangs and soffit vents, around windows and doors, to keep them away as cooler temperatures drive them to find a warm place to overwinter.

Box Elder Bugs:
Tired of have these troublesome Box Elder Bugs all over the sides of your house in the fall? Box elder bugs normally feed on the leaves, flowers, and seed pods of the Box Elder tree or Silver Maple tree. The adults search for a place to overwinter which brings them into houses where they hide in small cracks and crevices in walls, door and window casings, attics, and around the foundation. During warm days in winter and early spring they come out and scatter through the house.

We can treat the sides and perimeter of your home, including overhangs and soffit vents, around windows and doors, to keep them away as cooler temperatures drive them to find a warm place to overwinter.