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Go-Green Lawn & Landscaping Weed & Feed

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Go-Green offers weed and feed programs for all residential and commercial clients. Residents, for their annual fee, get 3 applications throughout the year. The first treatment starts as soon as the weeds appear and growing conditions are favorable, which is normally around mid-May. A second application, which is an application of granular fertilizer, follows shortly after with mid-July our target for completion. Although some years, we're up against challenges while trying to complete our goals, but we do manage to get it done. The third, and final application, is completed in the fall before freeze-up and while the plants are still actively growing. Fall applications start about mid-August and continue until they are completed. We contract out our commercial customers on per year basis. We are equipped with two boom sprayers for the largest areas, one an 18ft. and the other a 6ft. Contact us for pricing.

Spraying gone bad. Every June, just by driving around, one can see evidence of a bad spraying job. Below are photos of self imposed spraying applications done by inexperienced and uneducated persons while thinking they are doing the right thing. Classic examples of using the wrong chemical, to strong of a concentrate or incorrect application methods. Evidence shows up within 2-3 days, if not, hours depending on how quickly the plant absorbed the treatment. The result, severe plant damage to favorable plants not intended to be killed.

Pesticide education is definitely a MUST when it comes to dealing with or the handling of, any type of chemical. Whether it is in the drugstore, farmers field, front lawn, hospital, golf course, local park , manufacturing plant etc., a person MUST always have education in their particular field of work, and pesticide applicators are no exception. We're not saying that pesticides are unhealthy, because we know they can be, but if handled correctly by an educated and experienced person, one is completely able to minimize the potential risk of poisoning. Just as a firefighter prepares for a fire or a lab & x-ray tech puts on his lead coveralls, a pesticide applicator should know what he's dealing with and how to deal with it, all the while taking the appropriate precautions for everyone's safety . The fireman is not going to invite you into the fire that he's fighting, the lab tech is not going to let you watch, in the same room, radiation treatments all day, so nether should the pesticide applicator spray a lawn without the same respect when treating a clients yard.

Pesticides have their use in society and should only used by an experienced person who follows the directions imprinted on the label. Much like picking up a prescription at the drug store, a person has to read the label and follow the appropriate instructions to avoid dire consequences, otherwise; what would be the point of taking the medicine.

Where would we be economically if pesticide use did not have it's place? Fruit and vegetables prices would be astronomical if the growers could not get their full harvest off the fields because of insect damage or disease. What would we be saying then? Just look at what happened to the orange prices this winter when the California growers were hit by the freezing cold. Albeit, we can't do much about the weather, but we do have the resources to combat biological pests so why not use them. We have to remember, that when these chemicals are released to the market, that they have been under tremendous scrutiny, by the public, the company, the industry, universities, undergone studies, medical community, governments and just about every law there is out there. Certainly pesticides or any other inventions in our world would not get to the market, if even just one of the governing bodies thought it would cause dire results, after, following directions and applied correctly.