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Merrillville has hot summers and cold winters. If you don’t want to treat your lawn in such a climate, call LawnStarter and let us take over.

Most Common Grass Types: The most common grass types are Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, rough bluegrass, tall fescue, and fine fescue.

Fall Lawn Care Tips: Keep watering your grass, rake your leaves, get rid of excess thatch, aerate to improve lawn health, overseed for a thicker lawn, test your soil to see how healthy it is, fertilize in early September, prevent and kill weeds, keep mowing until the grass stops growing, drain the sprinklers before winter, and prepare your flower beds for the upcoming winter.

Native Plants: Wild bergamot, oakleaf hydrangea, black cherry, culver’s root, garden phlox, foxglove beardtongue, elderberry bush, sweetgum, and butterfly weed.

Common Lawn Diseases: Brown patch, dollar spot, fairy ring, lawn rust, leaf spot, pink snow mold, pythium blight, red threads, slime mold, snow mold, stripe smut, summer patch. They’re typically easy to prevent and treat, but if you need help with what to do, LawnStarter's pros are experts at diagnosing and treating lawn diseases.

Common Lawn Pests: Ants, billbugs, chinch bugs, fleas, grubs, Japanese beetles, lady beetles, mosquitoes, potato beetles, spiders, and ticks.

Other Outdoor Services We Offer: In addition to lawn care, LawnStarter’s pros offer various services, from landscape design to patio work. Name it, we do it.

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