With the fall season here in Texas comes colorful leaves - and the dreaded chore of removing them when they fall onto your lawn. While it may be tempting to skip leaf cleanup, doing so can lead to several problems. For one, leaf piles smother your grass and block essential resources from reaching it, including sunlight, oxygen, and nutrients. They also attract pests, providing shelter from the elements and predators. Additionally, leaf piles create the perfect environment for lawn diseases to develop because they trap moisture underneath and inhibit sunlight accessibility, which are ideal conditions for fungi to thrive. If you want to avoid these problems, you should remove the leaves from your lawn!

Leaf piles smother your grass and block essential resources from reaching it.

Piles of leaves on your lawn can smother it and block essential resources from reaching it, including oxygen, sunlight, and nutrients. Your turf can't perform photosynthesis without adequate sunlight, which will happen when leaves are scattered across it. Similarly, leaf piles will inhibit proper air circulation and nutrient accessibility to the grass underneath. Without these resources, it'll become weak and brown, plus make it susceptible to stressors. Because of this, removing the leaves is a task you don't want to skip!

Leaf piles will take away from your lawn's beauty, detracting from its curb appeal.

Piles of leaves attract pests to your lawn.

If there are piles of leaves on your lawn, you might find yourself dealing with insect infestations! After all, leaf piles attract pests because they provide a cool, dark shelter from the elements and predators. This means your lawn could become overrun with creepy crawlers like ants, spiders, fleas, and ticks. Rather than giving pests more opportunities to take up residence on your lawn, you should remove the leaves!

Leaf piles create the perfect environment for lawn diseases to fester.

Another problem that comes with not removing leaves from your lawn is they can create the perfect environment for lawn diseases to fester. That’s because leaf piles trap moisture underneath them, prohibit proper airflow, and shroud the grass in darkness, creating ideal conditions for fungi to develop. Before long, you'll have a full-blown lawn disease on your hands, which will require curative treatments, plus other lawn care services to eliminate the infection and help your turf recover afterward. However, removing the leaves from your lawn will reduce the chances of fungal diseases forming, saving you both time and money in the long run!

Common lawn diseases in Texas include take-all root rot, dollar spot, brown patch, fairy ring, and gray leaf spot.

Call Us Today to Sign Up for Our Leaf Removal Service

Don't let leaf piles cause problems for your lawn - instead, let our team at Buffalo Outdoor take the dreaded chore of removing them off your hands! We offer a leaf removal service to help do just that, which is available starting in December once most of the leaves have started falling. With this service, our team will either blow or rake all the leaves from your lawn to the street. Then, we'll suck them up and haul them away using our vacuum trucks. Not only does this save you from all the back-breaking labor of cleaning up the leaves yourself, but it also ensures they don't smother your grass, attract pests, or create the perfect environment for lawn diseases!

We offer our leaf removal service to residential properties in Keller, Aledo, Saginaw, TX, and throughout the surrounding areas. Call us today at (817) 349-0580 to sign up for this service, and let us help you achieve a leaf-free yard. We look forward to hearing from you soon!