Lawn Care in Hartselle, Alabama
Lawn care in Hartselle, AL starts at $49 a visit for our treatment program, and pest control runs $45. Turf Haven treats lawns out of Athens and runs Hartselle on the Morgan County route. Call 256-938-7188 and we will price your yard off the address.
Hartselle is the one town on our list that is not booming
About 16,500 people, growing under one percent a year. Compare that to Priceville, twelve minutes up the road, which added a third of its population in a decade. That difference is the whole reason a Hartselle lawn is a different job.
Slow growth means established lawns. Established lawns mean grass that has been in the ground long enough to have real root depth, real thatch, and real trees over it. Almost none of it is sod that went down last spring. So the problems are not new sod problems, they are twenty year problems: thatch buildup, shade thinning, and whatever weed got a foothold back in 2015 and has been quietly winning since.
Old lawns fail differently
Thatch is the one people miss. A layer of dead stems builds up between the green and the dirt, and past about half an inch it starts blocking water and product from getting where they need to go. You can be doing everything right and watching most of it sit on a mat. Aeration pulls cores through it, which is why we push aeration harder in Hartselle than we do in a subdivision full of two year old sod.
The other one is shade. Mature hardwoods are the best thing about an older neighborhood and the worst thing that can happen to bermuda. If a section of your yard gets under four hours of sun, no fertilizer program is going to fix it, and we will say so rather than bill you for trying.
What we treat in Hartselle
- Lawn treatment program, weed control and fertilizer, from $49 a visit
- Pest control, from $45
- Mosquito control, from $55
- Fire ant treatment, from $49
- Tree and shrub care, from $39
- Core aeration, $110
Common questions
How much does lawn service in Hartselle AL cost? $49 a visit to start. We measure the yard before we quote so the number holds.
My lawn has been treated by somebody else for years and still has weeds. Worth checking thatch before changing companies. If product is not reaching soil, the product was never the problem.
Do you come to Hartselle every week? We run the Morgan County route on a schedule, so you get slotted into it rather than us making a special trip. That is why the price is the same as Athens.
What we do not do
No mowing, no landscaping, no sod, no irrigation, no tree work. In an older neighborhood the honest answer is sometimes that you need a tree trimmed, not a lawn treated, and we are not the ones to trim it.
We work off the Alabama Extension office for Morgan County, the state chemical handbook IPM-0590, and the free USDA Web Soil Survey, which will name the soil under your own address before anybody sells you anything.
Get a price for your yard
Call 256-938-7188, Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 5.