Lawn care services


riker:volchok Landscapes offers complete lawn care services customized to suit your property's needs. Nothing makes your home more inviting than a lush green lawn and well maintained gardens. However, maintaining that beautiful lawn & garden can be a lot of work, time and effort. Our comprehensive lawn care services can be customized to suit your particular needs and budget. We have provided lawn care services to hundreds of clients across Waterloo Region who continuously request our services each year. 

Our lawn care services include lawn aeration, fertilizing, overseeding, topdressing, rolling, weed control, edging and more

2023 Lawn Care Packages

Individual Lawn Care Services

Lawn Aeration


Prices starting at $75 (plus tax)

Why Aerate?
: loosens hard and compacted soil
: helps water and fertilizer get to where it's needed most- the roots
: increases tolerance to heat and drought stress
: improves health and vigor
: reduces maintenance required to have a lush and full lawn

To find out more about our Lawn Aeration services click here

 

Fertilization


prices start at only $35 as an add on, average sized property is $55 (plus tax)


Fertilizer facts:
  • The three main ingredients in fertilizer are: Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. 
  • Nitrogen is essential to create a lush, green and vigorous lawn. 
  • Phosphorus aids in root development 
  • Potassium is necessary for maintaining the strength and hardiness of your lawn

Unlike most professional lawn care companies who use a high nitrogen fertilizer which will only make your lawn look good but not help its growth. We use a balanced fertilizer that will give you a lush green lawn but also help it grow and stay healthy

Our standard fertilizer mixture is 10-8-8. It provides enough nitrogen for steady growth, but also contains more phosphorus and potassium which means better rooting and resistance to fungus and weather stress. Not only that but our fertilizer is safe for children, pets and the environment!  

 

Lawn Rolling


prices vary on specific lawn, average sized lawn is $95 (plus tax)

Maintaining a healthy and attractive lawn takes work, but a lawn rolling can help make the job easier. A lawn rolling will help level the soil, improve the overall appearance and also speed up establishment of newly seeded lawns. The best time to have a lawn rolled is in the Spring after a rain fall.

We use a 750lbs walk behind machine roller which is the ideal size roller for lawns. Watch out for inexperienced professionals with heavy duty rollers meant for asphalt work. Those rollers will only compact your soil and inhibit your lawns ability to grow. There’s a reason even golf courses use the same size roller as us!


Topdressing


1 yard of Triple Mix Topdressing for $225 (plus tax) 

What is Topdressing?
  • Topdressing is a thin layer of triple mix spread over the lawn, ½” to 1” thick focusing mainly on any bare or thin areas. Topdressing is used to even out your lawn, increasing micro-organisms and improve water retention in the soil. It will help thicken up your lawn and the thicker and more full your lawn is the more difficult it is for weeds to germinate. 

Our topdressing services include the soil, delivery and installation
Save yourself the wheelbarrowing and shovelling

Soil can either be spread on your lawn as a topdressing or in your garden beds to help feed your plants. We have several soil varieties depending on the application from triple mix to topdressing mix to garden mixes. 

Overseeding


prices vary on specific lawn, average sized lawn is $50 (plus tax)

What is overseeding?

  • Overseeding means spreading grass seed over your existing lawn. 
  • A seed mixture that contains one or more varieties of Kentucky bluegrass, fescue and perennial ryegrass is recommended. Kentucky bluegrass provides a lush, dark green lawn. Fescue is a lighter green grass that blends well with bluegrass and tolerates shadier parts of your lawn. Perennial ryegrass is added because it germinates quickly and is more resistant to turfgrass diseases. 
  • Grass seed needs to be kept moist until germination. 
  • When watering don’t allow the water to puddle or run off as this will wash your seed away.
  • Spring and fall are the best times to plant grass seed when temperatures are between 15º and 26ºC (59º and 78.8ºF) 
  • After overseeding keep the top 1/2 in. of soil damp by watering twice daily until all new seedlings are up


Our grass seed of choice is Scotts® Supreme Grass Seed, an all-purpose sun and shade tolerant grass seed mixture that has been bred to deliver quick germination, disease resistance and heat and drought tolerance. Made for Canadian grasses and contains a mixture of creeping red fescue, turf-type Perennial Ryegrass and Kentucky Bluegrass