Helping Porter County with Grass Fertilizer since the 70s
While Perma-Green was founded in 1974 as a lawn fertilizer company, it was the expertise and experience in working with Porter County’s diverse soil composition and helping people find solutions that helped the company grow and grow! Its homegrown values and sense of community helped differentiate Perma-Green from other lawn care companies in the area. This page was created as a means of offering our neighbors helpful tips that include soil composition maps, real-time Porter County rain precipitation, watering tips, and seasonal specials.
While this page offers a useful guide to Porter County homeowners, the secret to knowing which full-season plan is right for your unique soil and lawn does require a lawn analysis. Every lawn is different and the best plan varies from lawn to lawn. Fortunately, Perma-Green starts every relationship with a no-cost analysis and estimate. While many lawn care companies will create estimates without visiting your lawn, this usually means they are using generic fertilizers that are not optimized for your unique requirements.
Steve Daly's Tips
Porter County-Lawn Care Advisory
It has been a long, hot, dry summer in Porter County. The turf has been through several different hurdles this season. From severe patch disease issues to heat/drought issues to insect issues, Porter County lawns have been under siege from the environment. The impact of these weather conditions on our lawns has been severe. We are currently in a holding pattern for our full program customers who haven’t been watering. For those with an aeration and overseeding schedule that are not watering, aerators can’t pull plugs in clay soils, and we need you to start, or you may jeopardize the optimum germination window for seed. The near-future forecast has very little rainfall, and we have had an extended heat wave this month. Temperatures over the weekend were 14 degrees above the average daily high. Overall, temperatures are up significantly this year. The point of no return for some lawns is already upon us. Start watering today if you want to aid your lawn’s fall recovery. Two fall fertilization applications with a pound of active nitrogen each will also assist recovery and aid next spring’s turf health. Soil type determines best watering practice.
Porter County Soil Composition
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Porter County Lawn Specials
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The GDDTracker | NWI's Online Turf Management Tool
Lawn Care Application Timing & Pest Outbreak for NWI
Predicting pest outbreaks by calendar date is unpredictable and unreliable from year to year. Growing degree-days accumulate heat units to accurately predict biological phenomena even when the weather is fickle. GDDTracker is an online tool created for turfgrass managers in the Great Lakes Region; helping them predict pest outbreaks and application timing for their location.
Average Soil Temperature in Porter County, IN
Soil Temperature tools and apps track grass, insects, and disease pressure to correlate with Porter County temperature.
Some insects, weeds and diseases thrive in certain soil temperatures. Having updated information about your local soil temperature and the pests common to your Porter County, IN area can help you prevent and treat for optimal turfgrass quality.
Average Soil Moisture in Porter County, IN
The Porter soil moisture map for your area to help you grow and maintain healthy grass
Soil moisture is a critical factor in growing and maintaining healthy turf. Knowing the soil moisture in your Porter County, IN area can help improve water conservation and provide better turf conditions.
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Strong Roots in Porter County since the 1880s (Continued)
Steve Daly built Perma-Green’s reputation as the best lawn fertilizer company while also raising his family with the family values that make Porter County a wonderful place to live. Today, his family, friends and neighbors are the people that help make PG different.
His daughter Cassie runs the office while Cydney is an expert lawn technician with insights that come with growing up in Porter County’s oldest lawn care company.
While Daly loves knowing his daughters will carry on the Perma-Green tradition of accountability and hard work, he especially loves the chance to see his daughters every day of the year.
Family is important to people in Porter County. While the Perma-green family started lawn service back in 1974, Daly’s family roots in Porter County date back to the 1880s.
Helping people with helpful solutions since the 1880's!
The Daly family have been growing grass in Porter County since the 19th Century. Anyone that has ever tried to maintain a lawn in Porter County will tell you, the key to growing a healthy, green lawn in Northwest Indiana is knowing two significant factors.
The first factor is knowing the diversity of soil types and having the training to know how to amend the soil. The second factor is knowing the history of what works and what doesn’t.
Fortunately, the Perma-Green family is well-qualified in both. But according to Daly, the third factor in running a successful lawn care service in Porter County is knowing how to treat Porter County residents.
Perma-Green’s secret to having so many happy lawn care customers in Porter County
According to Daly, “having deep roots in Porter County and Northwest Indiana has been the cornerstone to having so many happy lawn care customers in Porter Co.
When you’re doing business with neighbors, you look at lawn solutions as a partnership. We do our best in helping people with lawn care programs, lawn treatments, and lawn fertilization, but sometimes you run into issues that require frequent visits. Some weeds in Porter County are like our citizens… tenacious.
How Long to Water Grass & Rain Forecast | Tips from Your Neighbor
Helping people with real-time rain forecasts, watering tips, and the right lawnmower settings might seem minor, but it’s the culture of helping people that makes this local lawn care different.
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