Protect Your Lawn

Once you have mowed your lawn for the final time of the year, you may think there is nothing left to do until spring. However, with routine lawn maintenance throughout the entire year including winter, you will ensure your fresh spring lawn can flourish early on. 

CV Lawn King handles the winter snow removal you need, and the tips and tricks you need to help you preserve the look and beauty of your grass even in the off-season.

Lawn Salt Damage Prevention

Salt is an incredible tool for removing snow and ice, but it’s not friendly to grass. You may see stripes of brown grass along the edges of your driveway, clearly indicating that salt damage has already occurred. At that point, our team can provide lawn maintenance in the spring to restore your grass and reverse salt damage.

However, prevention is the better option. Here’s where to start:

• Place burlap sacks along the edge of the driveway to minimize the amount of salt application. Your local gardening nursery can help you with these in most situations.
• Use an alternative to traditional salt. Some products are salt-free and work well, such as cat litter, calcium chloride products, and sand. 
• Use a decorative border. A decorative edge around the driveway can block salt from seeping into the grass. Though that’s often a project for the springtime, easy push-into-place lawn edging could be an effective way of minimizing salt damage.

If you have to use salt and don’t have time to worry about these other strategies, try to use less and control where you place it as salt will dry out the soil and make it far harder for grass to flourish in it. 

Next year, let our team at CV Lawn King help you with lawn salt damage prevention strategies that may give you even more protection. Don’t forget to give us a call now to set up a snow plowing service, which may reduce the need for salt applications in many areas.