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Lawn Care Tips And Tricks To Level A Bumpy Lawn

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Step-By-Step Guide To Leveling A Bumpy Lawn

Achieving the perfect lawn is always a struggle. Some yards are invaded with pests, while others are covered with weeds. However, there’s usually some type of simple fix for those issues! After all, you can always invest in pest control and weed control to get your lawn healthy again. Some issues aren’t as easy to fix though—issues like a bumpy lawn. If your lawn looks like a rollercoaster ride, then this is the blog for you! While leveling a bumpy lawn can be difficult, it’s not impossible. Below, we have listed a step-by-step guide to leveling a bumpy lawn. With any luck and a lot of hard work, this guide will give your lawn the even, smooth and healthy look you’ve been longing for. Ready to say goodbye to a bumpy yard? Let’s get started!

Step 1: Determine Why Your Lawn Is “Bumpy”

There’s a reason your lawn is bumpy! Here are some of the most common causes of lawn bumps: Your grass could be too thin. In a thicker, more dense yard, bumps in the lawn are hardly noticeable. If your grass is weak or thin, you will be able to see bumps much easier. The change in seasons. In early spring, the soil is beginning to heat up and thaw out from the winter. This change in temperature may cause lumps. An excess amount of earthworms. While earthworms won’t harm your lawn, they are known to shift around the soil, causing bumps. If you are noticing an excess amount of earthworms, you may need to check the pH balance of your soil.   Your soil may be waterlogged. Since we live in the Carolinas, you never know what weather we’re going to get. If your lawn experiences periods of heavy rain, and no time to dry out, you may notice lawn bumps. Your soil might be compacted. Aeration is important for any lawn, and without it, your soil may become compacted. Compacted soil could be the cause of a bumpy lawn, too. Once you have determined the cause of your bumpy lawn, you can move forward with these next steps.

Step 2: Irrigate Your Lawn

If soil compaction is an issue, irrigating your lawn should help. You want to be sure to water your lawn thoroughly, but don’t give it too much water. The water will help loosen up the soil, making it easier to level. The best time to begin leveling a bumpy yard is in the spring since this is when your grass seeds are beginning to flourish. However, if you’re ready to attempt leveling your lawn in the summer or fall, contact a lawn care specialist for the best leveling techniques.

Step 3: Fertilize Your Lawn

Bumpy or not, fertilizer can offer significant benefits to any lawn. Chances are, your lawn isn’t getting the nutrients it needs, which may be what is causing the bumps. Fertilizer can give new life to a malnourished lawn, and replace the nutrients you may have lost during irrigation. While you’re at it, don’t forget to fertilize your trees and shrubs too! Everything in your yard should be able to reap the benefits of fertilizer.

Step 4: Aerate Your Lawn

As we talked about earlier, aeration is an essential part of leveling a bumpy lawn. Over time, weather, wildlife and regular wear-and-tear can cause the soil to become compact, preventing your lawn from getting the nutrients it needs. To reverse this, aerate! Aeration is the process of drilling tiny holes into the soil’s surface. These holes will break up the soil, allowing water, oxygen and nutrients to reach the grassroots.

For additional information on aeration, read our blog:

Aeration Tips and Tricks To Keep Your Yard Nourished

Step 5: Break Up The Bumps In Your Lawn

Once you have irrigated, fertilized and aerated your lawn, it’s time to break up those unsightly bumps! Start by using a power rake to break down the bumps and soil cores. Once you have broken down the lumps and bumps, rake the thatch out of the lawn. Lawn thatch is a combination of living and dead organic plant matter that accumulates on your lawn. Continue raking, and remove any thatch that continues to come to the surface.

Step 6: Feed Your Lawn

Overseeding is the process of distributing and planting grass seeds to fill in bare turf spots. This process won’t harm your lawn—after all, we don’t want to undo all the progress you’ve made! Overseeding will help your grass grow back thicker and healthier, and hopefully with no bumps! We know first-hand how overseeding can turn an unhealthy lawn around, so don’t forget this step when trying to level your lawn.

Lawn Care Doesn’t Stop There!

Once you’ve completed these six steps, don’t stop there. Your lawn needs year-long care if you want to keep it healthy and bump-free! You’re going to want to apply starter fertilizers and winter fertilizers to make sure your grass stays healthy through fall and winter. These fertilizers (among other things) will be crucial in maintaining the health of your lawn.

Want to know what else it takes to maintain a healthy lawn? Read our blog:

8 Reasons To Invest In Year-Round Lawn Care ServicesWhile a six-step leveling process may not sound too difficult, it’s harder than it looks—trust us. So, when the going gets tough, rely on the Killingsworth team to take care of your bumpy lawn for you! We can test the pH levels in your lawn to determine if high levels of acidity are causing lawn bumps, or if it’s something else entirely. Our team of lawn care experts will be able to tell just what your lawn needs—from irrigation and fertilizer to aeration and more! When you invest in our services, rest assured we will do everything we can to make your lawn the best-looking yard on the block! Most importantly, we’ll get your lawn bump-free in no time. So, don’t wait! Schedule a service now. 

Lawn Care Tips And Tricks To Level A Bumpy Lawn

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How to Know if Your Hotel Has Bedbugs

Upon entering a hotel room, do you typically reach for the tiny toiletries, take a leap onto the bed, or perhaps start by inspecting for bed bugs? Knowing what to look for is essential. Anticimex Carolinas Service Manager Christian Tweed has shared valuable insights on identifying bed bugs in your hotel room and preventing them from hitching a ride back home with you. And if bed bugs do become an unexpected part of your vacation, remember that Clark’s Pest Control is here to assist!



Q&A with a Pest Professional


How do bed bugs get inside hotels?


Bed bugs are primarily hitchhiking insects as opposed to foraging ones, meaning that they get carried around on people’s clothes and belongings. Someone with an active infestation in their home can easily bring bed bugs to their hotel, but they can also be picked up during travel (airplanes, taxis, and rideshare services) and brought to a hotel room.


What do people misunderstand about bed bugs in hotels?


From a probability standpoint, all hotels will deal with bed bugs at some point in time. If you think about a bed bug’s method of travel, there’s literally nothing a hotel can do to stop them from being carried in. What I have realized is that luxury hotels are more likely to have an aggressive response to dealing with a bed bug case once it’s identified as they tend to have a higher quality of service and a reputation to protect. While this isn’t always the case, it has been my experience more often than not.

Got bedbugs? Call Clark’s at 866-781-4991 today!

What do you recommend travelers do when they get to their room to check for bed bugs?


Most hotel headboards hang directly on the wall. I start my inspection here before even looking at the bed itself. I have found bed bugs, their exoskeletons, and the telltale black stains they leave behind around the edges of or in the crevices of headboards. If the headboard looks clean, move on to looking over the pillowcases and comforter for any signs or stains. You can dig into the bedding as deep as you want here, but I encourage people to look over the top layer of things at the very least.


What are some lesser-known signs of bed bugs in your hotel room?


The specifics of the black stains they leave behind, which as gross as it sounds, are just digested blood as that’s all that bed bugs feed on. If the stains are on a hard surface, they will be small dots as if left behind by an ink pen and will smear into a brownish gray when moisture is applied. If they’re on fabric, they will usually bleed along the fibers making a small diamond, square or X shape.


If there are bed bugs in your hotel room, can they travel home with you?


They absolutely can, however this is easy to prevent. While staying in a hotel, keep as much of your clothing and luggage off the beds as possible. Storing suitcases in the bathroom might sound odd, but it’s an effective method of prevention.

Don’t tackle bedbugs yourself, call Clark’s at 866-781-4991!

What should you do with your suitcase if you suspect your hotel has bed bugs?


When arriving home from a trip, leave your luggage in the garage or on a porch and bring your clothes in one load of laundry at a time. If the clothes are dirty, wash them like you normally would, if they’re clean then run them through the dryer for at least forty-five minutes. Once your suitcase is empty, vacuum over it meticulously (don’t forget to empty the vacuum when you’re done), or if you’re in the right climate, expose it to heat for a few days by placing it in your vehicle (parked in the sun) or for a few weeks in your attic.


The Clark’s Solution


If you brought bed bugs back to you home, Clark’s is here to help. Our Bedbug Control service is designed to eliminate bedbugs and create a safe, comfortable environment.


A Clark’s Pest Professional will do an inspection and recommend a plan of attack to get rid of bed bugs now and prevent them from hatching in the future. Call Clark’s at 866-781-4991 today for more information.



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