Our goal is to provide the right nutrients at the right time to help the grasses grow on a healthy course while also preventing weeds such as crabgrass, poa annua from merging in your turf and keeping broad leaf weeds like clover, dandielions, chickweed and others from invading your landscape.

Turfgrasses that grow in our city vary so our treatments are lawn specific. This means we offer a specific program for each type of grass in Alpharetta, GA. Results from our program have proven to be effective for Bermuda, Zoysia, Fescue, Centipede, and St. Augustine lawns. Being in this business for over 25 years in the Alpharetta area has given us a wealth of knowledge from hands on experience. As we grow, we also find more innovation and products that can improve our service. With teamwork from our suppliers to our management to our technicians we are able to deliver a superior service that results in happy customers.

If there are ever any questions about your lawn, we are able to respond to your needs in a timely manner. Never feel that you are being invasive by calling our office as there are many problems that can arise from time to time and prompt response to a condition on your lawn may prevent a minor problem from turning into a major disaster.

The Other Side Offers a seven treatment lawn service program to the Alpharetta, GA Area to keep your lawn healthy throughout the year. Our Program is as follows:

Pre-Spring Treatment Our goal at this time for all turf grasses is to establish a barrier to prevent weeds and to get rid of any weeds that are emerging while at the same time delivering nutrients to strengthen healthy root activity. Fescue lawns will receive additional fertilizers to stimulate green-up and plant development.

Early Spring Treatment We reinforce the existing barriers that prevent weeds and further suppress actively growing weeds while stimulating your turf with Control-Release and Quick release fertilizers along with humic acids that help build stronger turf. This will enhance the natural green-up of warm season grasses such as Bermuda and Zoysia, and Fescue lawns are beginning to look their best. (Schedule your warm season aeration at this time. )

Late Spring Treatment At this time lawns should be green and healthy. We now want to feed the warm season grasses with a high-nitrogen fertilizer to help promote growth; Fescue lawns receive a treatment of Iron with humic acids and a specialty herbicide that combats difficult weeds such as spurge, buttonweed, wild violets and lespedeza.

Early Summer Treatment Warm season grasses should be healthy and green; we continue feeding them with a balanced fertilizer that helps to enhance the color without over stimulating the growth. Fescue lawns receive a maintenance level of lime to keep the pH of the soil from drifting more toward high acid levels. Due to high temperatures, weed control is applied only as necessary so not to damage your turf.

Late Summer Treatment For cool season grasses, we apply a specific formulation of fertilizer with humic acids to hasten plant recovery from summer stresses and to prepare the soil for fall over seeding. Getting a barrier started against winter annual weeds for warm season grass is essential for a healthy winter turf. Iron is also included to enhance and maintain the color in your warm season turf. (Schedule aeration and over seeding of your fescue lawn at this time. )

Autumn Treatment Now is the optimum time to have your fescue lawn aerated and seeded. Our goal is to optimize the germination of the fescues with a high-nitrogen fertilizer for quicker growth and healthier color. Warm season grass will begin to go dormant and applying an extended barrier of weed control will help prevent winter weed issues.

Winter Treatment At this time we are keeping the fescues healthy with a blend of fertilizers that will provide nutrients to stimulate deep root growth and to encourage root development. Lime is applied to warm season grasses to help the turf exchange nutrients efficiently in the spring and summer months as limestone keeps the pH of the soil in balance.


Other Lawn Services we offer for the Alpharetta Area:

WARM SEASON TURFS: Due to varying levels of maintenance, foot traffic and cultural conditions, warm season lawns may need to be aerated every year. In optimal conditions aerations may only be necessary every 2-3 years.

AERATION AND OVERSEEDING:Due to our clay soils and heavy stress factors during the summer months resulting in the thinning of lawns, aeration and overseeding of fescue lawns is recommened every fall season.

FUNGICIDE: We offer fungicides to help in control of Brown Patch, Dollar Spot, Leaf Spot fungi which are the primary turf diseases in the Metro Atlanta area.  Fescue grasses may need several treatments in the spring and summer for control of Brown Patch which can be scheduled on a program to optimize the control.  We offer Fungicides as a special service at an additional cost.