Do you wonder why you lawn never gets as green as the golf course?  It is not impossible to have your lawn looking better than a golf course.  Healthy turf is essential to maintaining your home value and more.  Golf courses top-dress their greens and fairways on a regular basis.  How else would the course recover from play and the winter?  More benefits of top-dressing are…

• Increases organic matter content of soil
• Improves soil percolation rate
• Increases water holding capacity of soil
• Reduces soil compaction
• Improves turf rooting and durability
• Reduces thatch
• Supplies plant nutrients

Our method of top dressing, or sanding, is the same as that used on golf course putting greens to produce a smooth surface and better soil conditions. By applying sand to any clay-based soil, the sand will improve drainage and stimulate growth of Bermuda and Zoysia. It will also improve the color and growth of these turf grasses.

THE PROCEDURE FOR TOP-DRESSING IS AS FOLLOWS:

• The turf must be scalped and aerated before the top dressing is applied. Scalping is taking the turf to the lowest possible level as well as removing the clippings. This procedure can be done by the customer or by Dogwood Landscaping, LLC.  We recommend letting us scalp the lawn because we have the equipment necessary for scalping the lawn properly.
• Sand is applied at a 1/4 inch thickness. After the sand is applied, the turf is raked with a dragnet (a heavy metal mat) to pull the sand from any high areas and spread it into the low areas.
• Sand should not exceed 2 inches in depth. Any very low areas will be hand spread up to 2 inches in depth. More sand may be applied after 30 days.
• Our top dressing machine can only be used on grades of no more than 35 degrees. Grades more than 35 degrees must be done by hand and will be priced separately.
• The optimal season for top dressing is anytime after the last frost, usually around the first of May when ground temperatures reach a constant 70 degrees, and then during the spring and summer.

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