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Landscaping is one of the first things buyers see when they're shopping for a home. That can be good or bad depending on the home's curb appeal. If there's a green, well-maintained lawn, it's an indication that the inside of the home is likely equally cared for. But sometimes getting the lawn to stay green and healthy is a bit challenging. Whether it's brown, yellow lawn, or insect infected, there's a neat way to combat the problem. Turf Revolution has a simple way to check the pH of the lawn.

Turf Revolution takes a proactive approach to lawn care. The company makes a soil testing kit that can be purchased for about $25.00. The first step in the kit is to take a couple of soil samples, mail them back in and wait for your customized report.  It's done by an independent soil test facility that tells you exactly what's happening and these people do golf course and agriculture so they really know what they're talking about.  

The first page of the report that you get back is 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'. It tells you exactly what's happening in your soil. It'll tell you where your pH levels are, your organic matter levels are, your sodium and a number of other things.  That all sounds really complicated to people but it gives you a description about why these things are important to growing a healthy lawn.

The second page of the report gives homeowners a customized maintenance program that explains when, how much, and where to apply your fertilizer.  It'll give you a shopping list at the bottom so it takes the guess work out of it. It tells you how much you need to purchase and when to apply, just like a professional lawn care operator would do but it's a do-it-yourself program.

Perhaps one of the biggest advantages is that through soil testing and obtaining the results, you can learn how to not waste product, time, and money.  One of the nice things about having this report is that you're actually using what you've purchased more effectively. You're not putting down more than what you need and you're not putting down what you don't need. Also, you're reducing the use of chemicals and pesticides.

Maintaining a healthy lawn allows you to not have to be reactive. When the lawn gets in very poor shape and homeowners use chemicals and pesticides to kill off insects, much of those products end up in runoff to groundwater.  For more information visit, turfrevolution.com.