If your lawn is having trouble staying healthy, acidic soil may be the culprit. Unfortunately, acidic soil is common in Pennsylvania and means that your grass can't uptake the proper nutrients, causing problems like yellow grass, weed infestation, and more. These common signs are tell-tale indicators that your soil is too acidic, and it might be worth checking the pH level of your soil to know for sure. However, there's good news: you can do something about it with lime treatments. Lime treatments will remedy acidic soil with calcium and magnesium, correcting its pH and enhancing nutrient uptake. In no time, your lawn will be back on the road to recovery and good health.

What does acidic soil mean?

Professional testing soil in client's lawn in Telford, PA.

Acidic soil spells problems for your grass, as it can't uptake the proper nutrients it needs to stay healthy. Therefore, if your lawn looks like it's struggling, you should consider checking the pH level of your soil. You can measure pH on a scale of 1-14; anything below 7 is considered acidic, 7 is neutral, and anything above is alkaline. The optimum pH level for your lawn is between 6.5-7, or neutral. When your soil's pH level is under that, it becomes acidic and can inhibit your turf's ability to absorb nutrients.

What are common signs that your soil is too acidic?

You could do everything right, and your lawn will still struggle to stay healthy if the soil is too acidic. While this can be frustrating, you should be aware of and look out for the common tell-tale signs of acidic soil, including:

  • Yellow grass - When your grass doesn't have enough nutrients, it can lead to an iron deficiency and lose its healthy green color, causing it to turn yellow.
  • Weed infestation - Weeds thrive in acidic soil, thus making your lawn more susceptible to a weed infestation.
  • Fertilizer treatments aren't working - While fertilizer is rich with the nutrients your turf needs to thrive, acidic soil stunts nutrient uptake.
  • Moss - Moss will grow on your lawn, as it thrives in acidic soil.

Lime Treatments Will Balance Your Soil's PH Level & Enhance Nutrient Uptake

Lime added to soil for treatment in Harleysville, PA.

While acidic soil can create a plethora of problems for your lawn, hope is not lost - lime treatments are here to save the day! Lime treatments contain calcium and magnesium, which will balance your soil's pH level and enhance nutrient uptake. Calcium improves your turf's ability to absorb nutrients, and magnesium helps your lawn produce iron; iron is an important nutrient that gives your grass its healthy green color and aids in photosynthesis. You can effectively remedy acidic soil and get your lawn back on track to good health with a lime treatment.

Professionals usually offer lime treatments as part of their lawn fertilization program to correct your soil's pH level and allow it to get the nutrients it needs.

Schedule our lime treatments to neutralize your acidic soil and improve your turf's nutrient uptake.

If your lawn has been struggling to stay healthy due to acidic soil, we've got you covered! At Green Grass Lawncare, Inc., we want to ensure your lawn yields the best results from our services and gets back on the road to good health - which is why we offer lime treatments, along with fertilization and weed control, with any of our three lawn care programs. Our lime treatments will neutralize your acidic soil and improve your turf's nutrient uptake, while our fertilization treatments will give it the nutrients it needs to thrive again. What's more, our weed control treatments will eliminate the infestation from your lawn resulting from acidic soil!

We offer our lime treatments to residential, commercial, and HOA properties in and around Telford, Souderton, Harleysville, Quakertown, Perkasie, and Doylestown, PA. Call us at (215) 723-1034 to schedule our treatments today and make acidic soil a problem of the past!