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Upgrade your Lawn Service with our Soil Amendments

At Portage Turf Specialists, we believe in giving our customers the best lawns imaginable. This is why we offer our new customers a FREE soil test. Doing this test will determine the current fertility status and provide us with the necessary information to give our customers thicker, luscious, lawns by allowing us to replace the essential nutrients needed to sustain long-term success. You wouldn’t let a doctor operate on you without knowing what’s going on, so why do the same for your lawn?

Below you will find a list of services we offer to our lawn care programs to ensure they are maximizing the value of their home.

At Portage Turf we treat from the roots up

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Lawns need lime when low soil pH starts limiting the availability of nutrients. Lime restores balance in high acidic soil to bring pH back to optimal growing levels. Poor grass growth and lawn moss(but not always) are signs that lawns may need lime.

On the other end of the acidic spectrum is sulfur. The result of low pH levels can cause your lawn to grow slowly or look yellow-like. If you have a lawn that is too acidic or too alkaline, it restricts nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium from dissolving into the roots. Many times you will find these lawns in new home construction

For those who are in a good PH range and who may struggle with their calcium we reccomend Gypsum. Gypsum is a natural clay breaker that helps to drastically improve and condition heavy clay soils. This allows water to penetrate through the clay soil, helping the roots of plants and turf to move freely and absorb the essential nutrients needed to thrive long term.

Mineral Defiency Booster

Based on your soil test results we apply a mineral defiency booster for free the first year of service. Based on the amount of phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium in your soil. By replacing your defiencies we ensure optimal growth throughout the season leading to a thicker lawn and a stronger root structure.

Organic Lawn Booster

An organic lawn booster that helps promote soil decomposition. This will also help our organic based fertilizers reach furter into the soil.