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Top Dressing Lawn Leveling

What is Top Dressing?

Top dressing a lawn involves applying a thin layer of compost over the grass. This process helps improve the soil quality, level the surface, and enhance grass growth.

The composition includes the application of compost, which adds organic matter and nutrients to improve soil fertility.

How Top Dressing Works:

  • Step one: Assess lawn and identify what needs to be improved.
  • Step two: If needed remove any weeds, dead grass or thatch to make room for top dressing.
  • Step three: If needed aerate and remove cores to relieve compaction and make room for top dressing.
  • Step four: If needed seed
  • Step five: Top Dress
 
Top Dressing takes a mediocre lawn and turns it into the lawn of envy in your Missoula neighborhood.
Top dressing is ideally applied during Spring, Summer and Fall, to give grass the best chance to recover and thrive.

FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Top dressing your yard improves soil health, enhances grass growth, and helps maintain an even lawn surface.

Using compost in a yard enriches the soil with essential nutrients, improves soil structure, and promotes healthy plant growth while being eco-friendly.

Ideally, you should wait a couple of weeks to allow the grass to grow.

Typically, top dressing will improve drainage, and, natural aeration, especially if you have a firm soil composition.

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Mark and crew are awesome to work with. They came out a few years ago to do a project for us. At the time, they were fairly new to the hard scape aspect of landscape design. They did a beautiful job!

Pedge C.

Frenchtown, Montana

Mark, Greg and their guys were awesome. Always respectful and hard working. Did a beautiful job on our back yard, it’s a complete transformation. Mark went beyond with the finishing touches. And they were exactly on time with the timeline to finish, a rare thing these days! I’ll have them do all of my future projects.

John S.

Lolo, Montana

Mark and his crew were amazing to work with! They were very professional and friendly. Really made sure to work with our ideas. Their work is stunning! I would highly recommend for any landscaping needs. Seriously they worked a miracle for our terribly sloped back yard!

Jordan H.

Missoula

Mark and his crew go above and beyond to create your disastrous space into a beautifully planned out landscape. They are professional, timely and easy to communicate with!

Cheff B.

Missoula

Mark and his crew worked at our home during the late summer of 2023. They were on time each day. They were well-organized and cleaned up at the end of each day’s work. In addition they respected their equipment and took very good care of it. We are very pleased with their work and the results of the completed project!

Pat C.

Florence, Montana

Mark Metzger and his sterling team of engineers cannot be beat. Careful, patient, hard working and detail oriented. Would recommend highly!

Michael D.

East Missoula

Benefits

of top dressing

Top dressing is ideally applied during Spring, Summer and Fall, to give grass the best chance to recover and thrive.

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Water and Soil Efficiencies

Top dressing adds nutrients to the soil, which improves its structure and water retention capacity.
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Top Dressing

Top dressing adds nutrients to the soil, which encourages root growth and helps lawn access water and nutrients.
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Smoothing the lawn surface

Top dressing can smooth out uneven terrain caused by bad soil and water runoff.
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Protects the grass over winter

Top dressing with the right balance of nutrients can help protect your grass plants during harsh winters.

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