Spring is the perfect time of year to start preparing and caring for your lawn so it is ready for the warmer months ahead. Hiring a professional to handle your lawn maintenance needs will ensure the healthiest start possible for your yard—and the most impressive results. Here are three of the most important services to include in your spring lawncare to-do list.

Important Lawn Maintenance Services to Schedule This Spring

1. Clear Debris

Over the winter, there has likely been plenty of opportunity for debris to build up on your lawn. As spring arrives, this accumulation can not only impact the look of your lawn, but it can also prevent grass from getting light and nutrients and make it easier for diseases to spread and affect other areas of the yard. 

Start your seasonal maintenance by having a professional clear your yard of debris—consider it a spring cleaning for your lawn—and you'll be creating optimal conditions for healthy lawn growth, as well as for visual appeal.

2. Aerate

Aeration essentially creates tiny holes in your lawn, which helps grass roots better absorb air and water and prevents potentially damaging soil compaction. This is especially crucial if the soil in your yard has a high clay content, as clay compacts more easily than other soil components. 

Have a lawn maintenance professional assess your yard and determine what type of soil you have. From there, they can design an aeration plan that removes small plugs of soil to foster the best possible growing conditions for a healthy, vibrant yard.

3. Seed or Sod as Needed

It's no secret that Nebraska winters can be harsh. Routine exposure to freezing temperatures and extreme weather conditions, the use of salt on driveways and other surfaces, and a lawn disease called snow mold are just a few wintertime dangers that might leave you with bare patches of lawn. Reseed or resod in the spring, after aeration, to fill in these spots so they are full and uniform with the rest of the lawn by the time summer arrives.

Metro Sod & Seeding can handle these and all your spring lawn maintenance tasks. Since 1994, they have been serving Lincoln, NE, and the surrounding areas. They also provide lawn grading and fertilization, as well as sprinkler system installation and maintenance. Call (402) 730-4421 to request a quote or visit them online to explore their services in more detail.