When you run a horticulturally oriented web blog like Ou-Trouver-Le-Mellieur Lawn Care, you get questions and comments from people the world over—people like the Myers family located in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, just outside of Wichita.

I was taken by the sheer beauty of the pictures Tom Myer sent me of his land. He was having issues getting a good and thriving lawn to grow in.

The first things I noticed however were some piles of what appeared to be junk showing up here and there in the pictures.

When I asked him about it, he said it was just left over refuse that he didn’t thing was appropriate to put in his weekly garbage pick-up.

Piles of unwanted stuff like this can not only be bad aesthetically, over time, they can contribute to contaminating the soil.

I quickly did a Google search and came up with www.wichitajunkremoval.net which seemed like the perfect company to take care of Tom Myers’ problem.

First Things First

I knew that after www.wichitajunkremoval.net had removed the junk piles, there would be a number of bare spots in the lawn, which from the pictures appeared to be the turf grass known as Tall Fescue along with some other unidentifiable hybrids.

I also suggested that Tom get a soil test from a local Wichita outfit so we could see if there were any important deficiencies nutrients in the soil: Iron, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur and Zinc, which need to exist in the right quantities for proper growth.

At any rate, I didn’t want Tom to have the soil test interfere with the junk removal so I had him schedule that for the next day.

The junk man from www.wichitajunkremoval.net showed up right on time and had the piles of unwanted material removed in about an hour!

Not bad and the property was now clean as a whistle! Our soil sample guy came the next day, took a few samples and left for the laboratory. It was now time to wait for the results!

So What Were The Results?

 Are you excited about hearing the results? Of course you are!

It turns out that Tom Myers had an ample mixture of Iron, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur and Zinc in his soil but a little too much Urea, something that can happen if a person applies fertilizer in an improper way.

His land was on a incline. The low lying areas were getting too much water and the higher parts were in fact . . . parched!

The bald spots on the ground where the junk had accumulated had traces of Cadmium, an undesirable contaminant, not so much as to require remediation, yet still it was a good thing that www.wichitajunkremoval.net had pulled that junk.

How Did It Turn Out?

Time was running out to get matters corrected as the seasons ever change. I recommended that Tom bring in a guy with a plow to grad the high spots and generally aerate his soil.

Any excess soil could be pushed over into the low lying areas. He had his neighbor with such a machine help him out. I further recommended that he lay off the use of fertilizer for a while and plant Fine Fescue which would have a real shot at growing close to maturity before it got too cold.

To see pictures of the before and after views of his back lawn today is quite striking! He remains another success story on our blog and just to think, we owe much of it to the junk man from www.wichitajunkremoval.net!