Lawn Care.
Far Hills, NJ.
Five minutes from Bernardsville.

Lawn care in Far Hills

Lawn care in Far Hills, NJ, from a company down the road

Far Hills lawns are large, old and shaded. Mature oaks and maples, long stone walls, beds that have been there for decades. The soil under all of that is acidic from generations of leaf litter, and the lawn is usually competing with tree roots for every drop of water. The program here is about soil first and patience second.

What Far Hills lawns actually need

Lime, almost always. The soil test on a Far Hills property tends to come back further below neutral than anywhere else we work, because the tree canopy has been dropping acid leaves on it for a century. Correct that and the feeding program starts to actually work. Skip it and you can feed the lawn for years and see nothing.

Shade means a shade seed blend at fall seeding, a taller cut, and accepting that the lawn under a big oak will never be a golf green. It can be thick and green. It cannot be stripes.

• Fertilization, five feedings timed to Far Hills soil temperatures
• Weed control, crabgrass blocked in spring, perennials killed in fall
• Core aeration and overseeding, August 15 to October 5
• Tick and mosquito barrier, April through October
• Winterizer before the December 1 licensed cutoff
• Mowing, mulch, cleanups, hedges on the same schedule

The hedges are half the property

On a Far Hills or Peapack lot the boxwood, the yew hedges and the specimen trees are often worth more than the lawn. The six visit plant and shrub program feeds them, watches for leafminer, mites and blight, and trims each one in the month it can take it. It goes on the same visit as the lawn.

Ticks on the woods edge

Every wooded Far Hills property has deer and every deer path has ticks. The barrier program treats the edges, the walls and the shade April through October. It does not fog the whole lawn, which on a big lot would be a waste anyway.

Botti Home Services is a licensed applicator, so the winterizer feeding goes down in the window only a pro can use, until December 1. It is on the lawn services list.