Leafy residential blocks on the city’s east side.
Maplewood earns its name — the east-side neighborhood where mature maples line the blocks and the lawns grow up in their shade.
Shade is the defining condition: less evaporation and gentler summers, but thinner light, surface roots, and moss wherever soil runs acid. The playbook is species and height, not more fertilizer.
Big maples take the light and first claim on water, and their surface roots thin the soil beneath. We renovate with shade-tolerant fine-fescue blends, mow high to give blades more collector area, and feed lighter but smarter — chasing full-sun color under canopy is the classic Maplewood mistake.
Mossy patches map the neighborhood’s acidity and compaction more honestly than any test we could run — but we run the test anyway, lime to the number, aerate, and overseed. Fix the causes and grass retakes the ground; rake alone and the moss returns by June.
Shade lawns need less summer water than owners expect — overwatering under trees invites fungus, so we set per-yard expectations early. Fall is decisive here: aeration and overseeding go in before peak leaf drop, the last feeding after it, and prompt cleanup keeps matted leaves from smothering the new stand.
Excellent service! Our lawn is so healthy and green! Would highly recommend!
My lawn went from patchy and thin to thick and green. PROTURF knew exactly what it needed.
I have been using Eric and his team from pro turf, formally town and country for roughly 4 or so years now and couldn’t be happier with their service and expertise. Eric saved my lawn from total destruction the first year it was planted through a very well scheduled fertilizer program. With the regular fertilizer applications and fall aeration’s and overseeding I now have a lawn to be proud of. They are always very responsive and accommodating when it comes to additional applications and treatments. I hope the photos speak for themselves.
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