Why You Should Choose an Organic Landscape Maintenance Service: A Guide for 2025

North Texas presents many challenges for homeowners wanting to maintain an attractive landscape. Our lawns are prone to fungal problems and diseases. Our flowerbeds attract numerous pests, and our vegetable gardens invite snacking by rodents. And that's just for starters. So if you're feeling stressed about your yard, it may be time to hire a landscape service to help you maintain it.

Organic Methods Are Simply Better

But unless you partner with a reputable organic landscape maintenance service, you may end up with more problems than you started with.

Most landscape services use salt-based fertilizers and toxic pesticides and herbicides, which can actually exacerbate the problems you've hired them to solve. And most don’t even know what organic means. Some of the big lawn services will even try to tell you that you can mix organic and chemical programs. But this is terrible advice. In fact, the two systems fight against each other, which leads to poor results.

At Marshall Grain, we know from years of experience that organic methods consistently result in a healthier lawn and garden than chemical-based programs. We’ve been offering the best organic products and solutions since the 1980’s. And since 2015, we’ve been using our own proven, organic methods to care for and maintain local residential landscapes.

By switching to an organic program, you’ll save money and reduce your family’s exposure to toxins, so you’ll be healthier. You’ll also:

• Save water because organic yards retain moisture better

• Experience fewer pest and disease problems

• Reduce lawn weeds by having thicker, healthier grass

• Provide an eco-safe and healthy habitat for essential Texas native pollinators and insect-eaters like birds, bees, bats, butterflies, lizards, and geckos.

• You’ll enjoy your own home-grown organic vegetables that much more knowing they are chemical-free.

• By reducing the amount of pollution released you’ll actually be helping save the planet!

Colleyville, Texas Homeowner Case Study

Here’s just one example of how we helped a Colleyville, TX customer restore a damaged lawn, potentially saving them thousands of dollars on the wrong treatments.

As shown in the first photo (left), before treatment, this Zoysia lawn was suffering from Dollar Spot, a fungus common in many turf grasses. Irregular brown patches are clearly visible near the tree.

Some lawn care services recommend applying a chemical, high-nitrogen fertilizer, which as we’ve explained above, harms your soil and causes other problems.

Our Marshall Grain team treated the area with MicroGro AF — a potent, all-organic, liquid bio-inoculant, which adds billions of beneficial microbes to the plants and the soil that effectively destroy harmful soil and leaf pathogens. After just 2 weeks, as shown in the second photo on the right, the lawn had already almost fully recovered!

Another lawn problem exacerbated by the use of chemical fertilizers is Take All Root Rot (TARR). Because your soil is stripped of its natural defenses, TARR, which is a soil-dwelling fungus, attacks the roots of St. Augustine grass, literally rotting them and depriving the grass of the ability to take up water and nutrients from the soil.

Take All Root Rot (TARR), a deadly fungus, is usually set off by using chemical fertilizers.

Once again, most landscapers would recommend applying a chemical fungicide to treat the disease. But these also kill off any beneficial fungi and other micro-organisms that normally keep TARR in check. At best, it results in only a temporary improvement. The long-term solution is to stop using chemical fertilizers and start improving the soil.

Marshall Grain's Organic Landscape Maintenance Services

Marshall Grain takes the stress out of yard maintenance with services such as granular and liquid fertilization.

From lawns to flowerbeds, trees, and shrubs, Marshall Grain offers a full range of yard care solutions, all individually tailored to fit your needs and budget — whether you need help with a specific problem, want a regular maintenance program, or desire something in between.

Here’s a brief overview of the services we offer:

• Granular & liquid fertilization

• Adding soil amendments

• Restoring soil health

• Weeding

• Pruning & trimming

• Mulching flowerbeds

• Planting annual color

*Please note we do not offer mowing.

Pricing for 2025

Regular fertilization packages start at about $800 a year for an average size yard. Your cost will vary based on the actual size of your yard and what specific treatments and services are included in your program.

Ready to get started? Call us for a free estimate.