New Lawn Installation Services in Northwest Indiana
Reimagine the look and feel of your home with a new lawn installation from Ricci’s Landscape Management. While patchy, dead lawns or dirt plots at newly constructed homes may be unsightly, it provides local homeowners with the opportunity to recreate their landscaping into the lush, attractive lawn of their dreams.
Everyone is impressed by thick and vibrant green landscaping. With the help of Ricci’s Landscape, you can have the best lawn in the neighborhood. Our trained and experienced lawn care professionals will work with you to find lawn installation solutions that meet your visual expectations, maintenance needs and budget. We’ll create an effective strategy for removing your existing lawn, preparing the surface for successful planting and rebuilding the turf with either grass or sod installation.
What Is Lawn Installation?
Lawn installation is the process of installing new grass on a plot of land. You can install lawns by using seeds or sod. The installation process begins with preparing the site for installation. We’ll ensure your soil is in the proper condition for successful planting by taking the necessary precautions to keep the soil healthy. Once we confirm the site is ready for planting, we’ll install your choice of lawn, whether it’s sod or grass seed.
New Lawn Installation Options for Northwest Indiana Homeowners
At Ricci’s Landscape, we have decades of experience designing and installing stunning lawns throughout Northwest Indiana communities — we understand the unique climate of the area, as well as homeowner expectations and use these qualities to develop customized lawn installation plans that best suit your home. Our certified lawn care specialists will closely evaluate the condition of your soil, common watering practices and the amount of available sunlight to select the best approach for a new lawn installation project.
From these characteristics, we develop the best lawn care solutions and installation options, including:
- Aeration and Overseeding: When you have an existing lawn with thin, damaged or spotty sections, aeration and overseeding is the best option. Typically for aeration and overseeding, the existing lawn and topsoil depth are satisfactory, it just needs additional care to boost the health and condition of the plants. For aeration and overseeding, we’ll aerate the lawn then apply premium quality grass seed to problem areas.
- Sod Installation: If you want a high-quality lawn instantly, you can install sod. Sod is grass already grown and ready for installing. It comes in rolls, making it an easy and efficient way to have grass during the growing season. When you want sod installed, our expert sod installers can come to complete the job neatly and quickly. We’ll ensure the area designated for sod installation is appropriate for optimum growth and help you understand the care required to help sod thrive.
The Best Time to Install New Lawns
While new lawns can be installed any time between the spring and early fall, at Ricci’s Landscape, we recommend performing new lawn installations in the fall between late August and mid-October. During this time of the year, there’s less weed growth paired with warmer days and cooler nights — these conditions allow the grass to mature before the chilly winter months without being subject to harsh heat and droughts or rampant weed growth.
CONDITIONS REQUIRED FOR A HEALTHY LAWN
You can keep your lawn healthy by ensuring it’s exposed to the proper conditions that improve its health. While planting new lawn installations during the right season is key to helping it grow, other factors also play a role in growth success. Here are some conditions to pay attention to when you want a healthy lawn:
- Sunlight: Sunlight helps grass grow properly. When a lawn receives little sun, the grass leaves thin out, grow too long and grow more slowly. Most grass needs at least four to five hours of sunlight every day to thrive.
- Water: Like sunlight is essential for grass growth, so is water. While rain is sufficient most times, supplemental watering is a must when it’s been dry. Your lawn likely needs more water when you notice wilting leaves, remaining visible footprints, or a color change. Deep watering is often more beneficial than frequent light sprinkles to help the roots develop.
- Soil: A healthy soil encourages a healthy lawn. Before planting seeds or laying sod, ensuring your soil receives enough oxygen and proper nutrients is vital. When you maintain soil health, it allows roots to grow deep and helps water reach those roots.
- Nutrients: Nutrients are essential to retaining a green and lush lawn. Fertilizers provide the necessary nutrients for proper growth. Often, fertilizing twice during the season is enough, but you can fertilize regularly if the grass shows signs of lacking nutrients.
Grass Installation Steps
When you have Ricci’s Landscape install your new lawn, you’ll experience high-quality service throughout the process. We follow specific steps for each lawn installation to ensure it will grow effectively. Here are the basic grass installation steps we follow:
- Remove existing lawn.
- Check soil condition and prepare the site for planting.
- Plant the grass seed or lay sod.
- Fertilize and water the site.
We ensure you receive the best lawn with careful planning and installation.
Trust Ricci’s Landscape Management for Your New Lawn Installation Project
Installing and establishing a healthy and hardy lawn is more than just purchasing grass seed at your local hardware store — it takes a lot of planning, preparation and patience, which is why you need help from trained and certified lawn care professionals. At Ricci’s Landscape Management, we look forward to working with local homeowners throughout Northwest Indiana to install, establish and maintain lush and beautiful lawns. We work with all types of different residential properties and can provide lawn installation services for newly constructed or renovated homes and established homes.
Learn more about our lawn installation and maintenance services today by calling 219-996-2682 or filling out our online contact form.