Lawn Care vs. Lawn Maintenance

When growing a lawn, services like pest control, lawn mowing, and watering, among others, are essential to maintain your lawn’s health and aesthetics.

These services can be split into two main categories: Lawn care and Lawn maintenance. Although these terms are often used interchangeably to mean the same thing, they differ greatly as you are about to learn. 

Let’s take a look at each to understand their difference better.

Lawn Care

Lawn care involves providing lawn care services to keep the soil and grass healthy. It encompasses a variety of services like soil testing, soil health, fertilization, weed removal, and pest control.

Landscaping Langley Ecoturf provides all these lawn care services and more. And when it comes to services like lawn fertilization that require advice, we are here to help.

Most companies will take the cheaper approach of using chemical or inorganic fertilizers for faster results. However, at Landscaping Langley Ecoturf, we use services that promote the full growth of your lawn and don’t tend to provide potential health risks to you and your family.

Some services you can expect from a lawn care company include:

• Aeration and thatch control
• Pest control
• Lawn fertilization
• Pre-emergent weed and crabgrass control
• Post-emergent weed and crabgrass control
• Mulching and soil testing

Now that you know what lawn care is, let's look at lawn maintenance.

Lawn Maintenance

Unlike lawn care, lawn maintenance invests more in the cleanliness and neatness of your lawn from year to year. It includes services like:

• Lawn mowing
• Hedge trimming
• Weeding
• Fall yard cleanup
• Spring yard cleanup

Lawn Care vs. Lawn Maintenance

Although people use these terms interchangeably to mean the same thing, there is a great difference between the two. 

Lawn care focuses on improving your lawn and grass's health through activities like lawn fertilization, mulching, and soil testing.

On the other hand, lawn maintenance mainly focuses on cleaning and improving the aesthetics of your lawn. This is achieved with fall yard cleanup, spring yard cleanup, and lawn mowing, among other services.

Why do you need to combine both lawn care and lawn maintenance?

At Landscaping Langley Ecoturf, we believe that lawn care and lawn maintenance are intertwined. For instance, it is logical that a lawn care company can’t work on a poorly maintained lawn.

Likewise, a lawn maintenance company can’t work on a poorly cared lawn because the plants won’t be in their best state healthwise. 

In that sense, we keep striving to help homeowners by providing lawn care and lawn maintenance services. 

Conclusion

Lawn care and Lawn maintenance are all mainly concerned with improving the aesthetic look of a lawn. However, they differ in terms of the services they each embody.

Lawn care services are aimed at improving the health of your lawn. On the other hand, lawn maintenance services aim to ensure that the lawn is clean and free from debris.

If you have a lawn that needs any of the two services, don’t hesitate to give us a call. We will be more than happy to help.