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Terra-Green, A Family and Pet Friendly Alternative To Lawn Care
Serving The Castlegar/Trail Area Since 2007

The Terra-Green family has worked very hard and has developed into a lawn care company that you will trust, year after year, for your lawn care needs. We have the expertise and dedication to make sure that what we do results in a beautiful and lush lawn for you and your home. The biggest question we ask ourselves, because we know it is the one you ask is, Why Terra-Green? What makes us different? 

Terra-Green is a lawn care company that has been built on the  hard work and the environmentally sustainable products the company's founders brought to the region years ago as a favor to family. Terra-Green has been built literally on it's reputation, referrals and the use of its innovative products. Our customers use us every year because we deliver on our promise to nourish a lawn to health.

Our products have led the industry in the realm of organic, environmental and ecological sustainability.

Our customer service is efficient, effective and family friendly which is why the greatest number of our customers are our repeat and referred clients, year after year. We measure your satisfaction as the sole indicator of how good we are.


 
 







 


























 
 
 
                                                                        
  




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Spring Lawn Care -  Slow Bentgrass Green up

Have you ever wondered why some sections of the lawn are slow to green up and take longer to come out of dormancy during the spring?  Creeping bent is notorious for greening up slowly, especially compared with Kentucky Bluegrass and Perennial Ryegrass.  As a result, sporadic sections of the lawn remain dormant and straw coloured until the creeping bentgrass catches up with the other grass species that were quick to green up.  This can sometimes take several weeks before the creeping bentgrass finally does catch up.

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Creeping bentgrass is typically considered undesirable in home lawns and unfortunately more often than not we have to live with it, not without it.  Under regular home lawn maintenance conditions creeping bentgrass does not perform well.  Its aggressive stoloniferous growth habit makes it very difficult to maintain at regular mowing heights of 2.5” – 3”.  As well, it chokes out and invades other desired species making it challenging to keep under wraps and from spreading across the lawn.  To make matters worse, there is a distinct colour difference with its lighter pale green colour, making it stand out against the rest of the darker emerald green Kentucky bluegrass and Perennial ryegrass.

 

As an alternative approach to speeding up the green up process for the future spring seasons, introducing several cultural practices such as Core aeration, overseeding, topdressing, and slitseeding will promote the establishment of more desired turf species in these areas.