Straight answers

I can guess from the curb, and I might even be right. But guessing is how lawns get over-limed, over-fed, and under-watered. A $95 lab soil test tells us pH, nutrients, and organic matter for a fraction of what a season of wrong treatments costs. We test first — everything else follows from that.

No. Some clay lawns are acidic and want lime; plenty sit near neutral and get limed anyway out of habit. Adding lime to soil that is already at pH 6.5 wastes money and can lock up nutrients. We only recommend it when your actual numbers call for it.

It is a thin, level layer of sand or compost worked into the lawn. Over a few seasons it fixes grade, improves drainage in tight clay, and raises organic matter. It costs more because it is material-heavy and labor-intensive — and it is also the treatment that changes a lawn the most.

You trace your lawn on the satellite map (or type the square footage), pick services, and it prices each one — per-square-foot for area-based work, flat for the soil test — with a sensible minimum. It is a real ballpark, not a bait number. Final pricing is confirmed after a site walk and soil test.

For cool-season lawns (fescue), fall is prime for aeration, seeding, and topdressing. For warm-season lawns (bermuda, zoysia), late spring into summer is the window. Soil testing and planning can happen any time — the best time to start is before the growing season you care about, not during it.

Yes — that is the whole point of how we do it. Instead of fogging everything green, we run In2Care stations that let the mosquito carry a tiny, parts-per-billion dose of larvicide into her own hidden breeding sites, plus a natural fungus that only attacks insects like her — not bees or butterflies. It is EPA-registered and safe around kids and pets used correctly. In peak season we add a targeted botanical spray on shady harborage, kept off blooming plants.

Atlanta and the close-in metro — Brookhaven, Decatur, Sandy Springs, Buckhead, East Atlanta, and the neighborhoods in between. Not sure if you are in range? Ask on the Contact page and I will tell you straight.

Not at all. You can book any service a la carte. The Soil Club just makes sense if you want ongoing testing and a plan that adjusts through the year — plus members get a discount on treatments.