The American Lawn Monthly Newsletter - October 2007 In This Issue What Are We Doing Right Now? October Lawn and Landscape Tips Tree and Shrub Care Now for a Better Spring Top 10 Ways to be a Great LawnAmerica Customer _______________________________ What Are We Doing Right Now? We are currently wrapping up our Late Fall Weed-Control Treatment. This is a liquid pre and post-emergent herbicide, which controls winter weeds such as dandelions, henbit, chickweed, and annual bluegrass. Immediate watering is not necessary, but the pre-emergent does need to be watered into the soil at some point in order to be effective. Fescue lawns were treated with a granular fertilizer and a spot-treatment of liquid post-emergent herbicide. No pre-emergent is applied during fall to fescue lawns in order not to harm new fescue seedlings. ________________________________ October Lawn and Landscape Tips - Continue to overseed or establish cool-season lawns like fescue. - Raise you mower height as we go into mid to late fall on all types of grasses. - Peonies, daylilies, and other spring-flowering perennials should be divided or planted now. - Plant cool-season annuals like pansies, ornamental cabbage, or kale. - Begin planting spring-flowering bulbs like tulips and daffodils. We recommend planting in bed areas, and not in the lawn. - Many perennials, shrubs, and trees can be planted now. - Fall is a great time to have a soil test done. For a $20 fee, we can determine if your soil is too acidic or alkaline, and make recommendations to correct that. Visit www.lawnamerica.com/soiltesting to schedule a soil test for your lawn. _________________________________ Tree and Shrub Care Now for a Better Spring LawnAmerica's Deep-root injection of liquid fertilizer is the most important treatment for your trees and shrubs, and late fall into early winter is the ideal time perform this service for your landscape. Proper fertilization helps provide a healthy plant, which will perform better next spring, grow more, and stand up to pest problems better. Call our office or go to www.lawnamerica.com/treeandshrub.html for more information. If you sign up on our Web site, you will save $5! _________________________________ Go Out To Dinner On Us! We appreciate your help in growing our business. Our main focus in growing our business has always, and will always be, to try to please our customers so much that the will tell others about us. When dealing with lawns and the havoc Mother Nature throws our way sometimes, that can be a real challenge! As our way of saying thanks for sending us a new customer, we have created a new Customer Referral Program. For every new customer you refer to LawnAmerica that begins service with us, we will send you a $25 Gift Card to participating restaurants such as Macaroni Grill, On the Border, Chilis, and Maggianos. You can go to our website at www.lawnamerica.com/referral and go to the homepage of your local operator and enter in the contact information for your referral. We will take it from there and provide them with a free estimate and information on LawnAmerica. You know us well enough that we are not going to slam them and use high-pressure sales techniques. We will treat them right, and make you look good for referring LawnAmerica. If they begin service with us, we will send you a $25 Gift Card in the mail for you to enjoy. _________________________________ Refer A Friend! For every new customer you refer to LawnAmerica that begins service with us, we will send you a $25 Gift Card in the mail for you to enjoy! www.lawnamerica.com/referral Your Information Your Name _____________________________________ Your Address ___________________________________ Phone __________________ City ___________________ ZIP ___________________ Referral Information Their Name _________________________________________ Their Address _______________________________________ Phone __________________ City ___________________ ZIP ___________________