Northwest Indiana’s Original Lawn Service | Established in 1974
Northwest Indiana’s longest-running lawn service was established in 1974. Perma-Green’s reputation is rooted in its proven expertise and experience in lawn services. To ensure local expertise and responsiveness, Perma-Green only offers lawn service to Lake County, Porter County, and LaPorte. With an area market focus, Perma-Green is uniquely qualified to manage and maintain local soil challenges, lawn disease, pest control, and issues related to severe climate fluctuations.
Welcome to Perma-Green Lawn Services. On this page, you’ll learn what lawn treatment services Perma-Green offers, which communities it has expertise in, and the certifications and licenses that make us uniquely qualified to help keep your family safe. You’ll also learn Perma-Green‘s approach to lawn care services, including lawn aeration, fertilization, and weed control.
Finally, you’ll meet our team—the MVP of our lawn care services! Our team is carefully selected, trained, and considered family. As a homegrown lawn care company, our customers love knowing that almost all of our technicians are career-focused and live in the same communities they serve.




Northwest Indiana Lawn Service | Tips and Lawn Solutions 24/7
The Perma-Green website is dedicated to lawn services and contains useful pages and tools to help you achieve a gorgeous, healthy lawn. You’ll find podcasts, blogs, and videos. You’ll also discover full-season calendars to support best-practice lawn care for each month. Our Weed & Feed page can simplify choosing the right plan by combining your unique goals with optimized practices. We believe the best solutions should be tailored to fit your goals. This page will help you decide which solutions are best for you!
You’ll also discover blogs to help you achieve the best results and explain why. We have a community page for each area in Northwest Indiana that we serve. With helpful lawn tips, monthly specials, area soil types, and other helpful information, you can be confident that Perma-Green is there for you when you want, where you want, and how you want!

Lawn Aeration Service
Most Northwest Indiana lawns benefit from Lawn Aeration Service. Also called Core Aeration, Perma-Green uses a proprietary commercial-grade aerator that rolls over your lawn, penetrating several inches into your yard to remove plugs of turf & soil. It then deposits them on the surface. The holes allow nutrients, water, air, fertilizer, and humus-channeling organic matter into the root systems. The holes allow the soil to loosen, permitting more manageable root growth and better air/water circulation in your yard.
Lawn Aeration Service should typically be determined by the condition of the lawn and other factors. Overseeding can support new grass growth. To learn about Core Aeration and Overseeding, here is a link to Perma-Green’s Podcast: Lawn Care Solutions with Steve Daly | Homeowners Guide to Core Aeration

Overseeding Lawn
Most Northern Indiana lawns benefit from lawn overseeding each year in late summer or early fall. Core Aeration and Overseeding can fill in thinned-out areas, areas where weeds were removed, and create a thicker, healthier lawn that will discourage weeds & pests. Perma-Green’s familiarity with our customers’ soil composition ensures that re-seeding uses only grasses optimized for the homeowner’s soil, sun, and watering practices. Options include implementing a newer grass variety with improved disease & insect resistance into an established lawn or adding a better grass variety for select areas. For example, fine fescue can be planted in an area with dense shade, where Kentucky bluegrass doesn’t grow as well.
Perma-Green offers re-seeding in conjunction with aeration as part of the 3-Star full-season lawn package. Aeration is necessary to ensure seed-to-soil contact.
Yard Fertilizer Service
Yard fertilizer service gives your lawn vital nutrients to improve its health while supporting a thick, beautiful appearance. Perma-Green’s full-season programs include six fertilizer applications with broadleaf weed control and pre-emergent crabgrass control. Premier weed & feed packages also include post-emergent crabgrass control.
Due to harsh winters in Northwest Indiana and inconsistent springs, the most significant lawn fertilizer applications are fall fertilizer and winter fertilizer. While providing the essential nutrients to survive the winter, Fall and Winter Fertilizers are the secret to next year’s healthy lawn!
Perma-Green uses three basic types of lawn treatments : fast-release synthetic, slow-release synthetic, and slow-release natural (organic). The specific lawn treatment services used by Perma-Green will vary based on the unique requirements of each individual yard. The following entries provide an overview of the 3 categories of fertilizers used:
Fast-Release Lawn Fertilization will provide NWI lawns with a quick shot of nutrition, resulting in rapid leaf growth and greening. The burst of growth may divert energy from forming a robust root system. A lawn that gets fast-release fertilizer five or six times yearly will look good when the weather is perfect, but its weak root system may cause it to dry up later on.
Slow-Release Synthetic Lawn Fertilization will give most lawns a more steady and gradual supply of nutrients. Still, their disadvantage is that they don’t create immediate results and may not produce dividends for weeks until the weather is nice or nutrients in the soil have activated them. But the steady lower dose of nitrogen these grass treatments provide builds strong roots without sudden energy diversions to leaf growth. This fertilization benefits from understanding homeowner goals, lawn history, and an understanding of soil composition. Perma-Green assigns a dedicated technician to optimize slow-release fertilizers for each customer.
Natural, Slow-Release Lawn Fertilization. The third broad category of lawn fertilization used by your Perma-Green Technician is a natural, slow-release fertilizer. These fertilizers consist of all types that are not synthesized. Examples include dried blood, fish emulsion, manure, and processed sewage. These fertilizers are sometimes referred to as “organic.” PG’s Steve Daly advises consumers to be cautious of lawn services that use the word organic when describing fertilizers to make sales. Daly suggests a more accurate term is “natural, non-synthetic” fertilizers. Like synthetic slow-release fertilizers, all-natural lawn fertilization requires action by soil microbes before nutrients become available to your grass. Natural fertilizers are expensive because they require up to four times as much of the quantity used by synthetic solutions.
Controlling Weeds
Competition. Since we started in Valparaiso 50 years ago, one thing hasn’t changed; Perma-Green believes the best way to control weeds is to crowd them out with a healthy lawn that comes with a full-season lawn care package. A thick, healthy lawn will have minimal weeds because the unwanted plants can’t compete. By executing a smart weed & feed program and helping our customers with best-practice watering, mowing, and reseeding, Perma-Green customers require fewer fertilizers each year! Fertilization practices are customized to the requirements of each unique lawn.
Pre-emergent herbicides. Included in all three of Perma-Greens full-year weed and feed plans, pre-emergent herbicide kills seed sprouts. It is the most common method for controlling crabgrass. After a lawn has been seeded, pre-emergent herbicides should not be used until the grass has grown to maturity. Failure to adhere to this application will result in stunted or dead grass. Since it is impossible to know where weeds will appear, a successful pre-emergent application requires experience and expertise in determining the best use. Knowing a lawn’s history offers insights into best practices and supports the benefits of Perma-Green’s philosophy of assigning a rep to each customer.
Post-emergent herbicides. While no pre-emergent herbicides are in wide use for broadleaf weeds such as dandelions and clover, PG will at times use post-emergent herbicides that kill weeds without harming your grass. Each lawn is treated based on its history of weed problems. Your Perma-Green technician carefully examines the lawn for visible weeds. In some cases, they will only treat the portions of the land where weeds are visible.
Lawn Pest Control
Why Certification Matters | Lawn Pest Control has become a significant factor in Northwest Indiana due to numerous factors. All lawns have some harmful pests and insects. Weather and other factors can create conditions that can infest and even destroy an established lawn. Conversely, similar to weeds, most pests prefer the sun. A full-season weed & feed program will support a healthy, strong lawn that discourages pests and insects.
Mosquito Lawn Treatment
Insecticides, including grub control and mosquito lawn treatment, may kill beneficial organisms that prey on lawn pests. Insecticides may also harm earthworms, which are essential to a healthy lawn.
Grub Control
Perma-Green uses a premium grub control called Acelepryn. It lasts an entire season, is non-toxic & prevents most lawn-damaging pests, which reduces separate applications for each pest.
When it comes to controlling grubs and pests, the benefit of a Lawn Care Company using Acelepryn instead of Imidacloprid is significant. According to Daly, “Perma-Green is willing to sacrifice higher profits than traditional grub control because it’s both responsible and more effective.
Flea Yard Treatment
Perma-Green Technicians are knowledgeable about the safe and effective application of flea yard treatments. They ensure that treatments are applied in the correct concentrations and in the proper areas. Misapplication can lead to ineffective treatment or, worse, harm to your pet, the environment, and beneficial insects.
Why Certification Matters | Each Perma-Green Technician is insured, trained, and certified with the OISC (Office of Indiana State Chemist). PG practices a targeted control approach.
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Certified Lawn Service
Perma-Green’s staff is certified with the OISC (Office of Indiana State Chemist) to work with fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds. Our workers ensure the safety of your family & pets, truth in labeling, and the protection of our environment. Customers like the Valparaiso Parks Department have counted on Perma-Green to keep families and pets safe!
Meet the Perma-Green Team

Cydney Daly
Position: Fertilizer TechnicianHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 1
Bio: Valpo is a special place to me because its where i've grown up. Working at Perma-Green gives me a great sense of pride because my dad, Steve, cares so much about this area, is business, and our customers. My dad is my personal hero, so helping to beautify this area and bring his image to light is why I love my job.

Courtney Selmon
Position: Lawn Care TechnicianHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 2
Bio: I love working at Perma-Green because my coworkers are all hard working, caring, and educated people. Working here is like working with family. I enjoy being able to work outdoors and enjoy the beautiful weather. I also have the opportunity to learn while out in the field. Everyday I learn something new from my coworkers that will help me perform my job at a higher standard.

Mike Emerson
Position: Lawn Care TechnicianHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 8
Bio: Perma-Green has a great group of people that I enjoy working with. The family friendly culture of the business adds a personal touch to our clients.

Mike Wilcox
Position: Route ManagerHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 5
Bio: I like being an integral part of a team, and here at Perma-Green, we rely on great teamwork. Everything operates in a well organized manor and the staff feels like one big family.

Jason Jurgenson
Position: Production ManagerHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 15
Bio: I love my job because all the employees are hard working, easy going, and caring people that are more like family the coworkers. We all strive to provide our customers with great professional care and service, we take pride in our work and it shows through loyal customers and good looking lawns. Our industry is constantly changing with new/improved products and equipment, that allow us to do our job efficiently and effectively while being stewards to the environment.

Chris Noel
Position: Lawn Care TechnicianHome town: Chesterton
Years with Perma-Green: 3
Bio: I love working for a locally, family owned business. I have been with the company going on 4 years due to how the employees are treated. My favorite memory of working here would be doing commercial properties with the whole team all in all working for a company that cares for the customer bage/ its employees is the best.

Cassie Noel
Position: Administrative AssistantHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 2
Bio: My favorite part of warning at perma-green is that we are a small locally owned business. Unlike many of our big competitors, our owner steve daly is extremely involved in every aspect of the company. He makes it a point to have a professional yet personable relationship with our customers and vendors. He also takes very good care of his employees, and makes it fun to come to work everyday.

Joy Jurgenson
Position: Administrative AssistantHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 10
Bio: I love working with a group of dedicated people who take pride in what we do. We all share a goal of wanting Perma-Green to succeed and to make customers happy by providing quality results. It also doesn't hurt to work for a smart, kind, generous leader that keeps us motivated!

Ryan Kubal
Position: Lawn Care TechnicianHome town: Valparaiso
Years with Perma-Green: 1