Premium lawn, tree + pest care
Expert Lawn Care in Evansville, IN. Built for Southern Indiana.
Matt’s Turf & More combines professional-grade products, highly trained local technicians, and season-specific timing to build standout lawns across Evansville, Newburgh, and the surrounding Tri-State.
The Matt’s Turf difference
A Smarter Lawn Care Program for Evansville Yards.
Southern Indiana heat, humidity, clay soil, broadleaf weeds, nutsedge, grubs, fungus, and biting insects do not arrive on one schedule. Matt’s Turf connects the applications so nutrition, prevention, recovery, and outdoor protection work in the right order.
Timing over guesswork
Each granular or liquid application has a seasonal job—from crabgrass prevention to summer weed control and fall root recovery.
Continual technician training
The full team keeps learning products, turf conditions, plant health, and application detail—not just the owner.
Roots first
Aeration, premium seed, slow-release fertilizer, and smarter watering help build the growing system below the color you see.
Protection before damage
Proactive fungus, grub, mosquito, ornamental, and ash treatments can prevent problems that are harder and costlier to reverse.
Field notes from Southern Indiana
What Healthy Evansville Lawns Need, Season by Season.
Professional lawn care is a connected process. Product choice matters, but so do application coverage, irrigation timing, mowing height, soil access, and the way each decision supports the next.
Built here, still here
Local Lawn Care Experience in Evansville Since 1995.
Owner Matt Curtis began managing four neighborhood yards as a young boy in 1995. The company evolved from mowing into complete lawn-care management, with a sharper focus on premium treatments, competitive pricing, and the kind of attentive service that has to hold up in your own community.
Today, Matt’s Turf serves residential and commercial properties throughout Evansville, Newburgh, and nearby communities with lawn treatments, core and liquid aeration, overseeding, disease control, insects, mosquitoes, ornamental plants, and Emerald Ash Borer injections.
Choose your lawn’s mission
Lawn Care Services for Evansville, Newburgh and the Tri-State.
The details matter. Explore the exact program purpose, timing, and protection each service adds to the property.
Eight-step lawn treatment
A full-season sequence feeds early growth, applies two rounds of crabgrass control, manages dandelions and clover, supports summer color, suppresses nutsedge, prevents grubs, rebuilds roots after heat, and finishes with a high-nitrogen winterizer.
- March–Oct/Nov
- Granular + liquid
- No contract
Core aeration + premium overseeding
Hot summers can bake Southern Indiana clay into dense soil that strangles roots. Thumb-sized cores reopen the soil so air, water, fertilizer, and premium seed can reach the root zone and help thin turf become dense again.
- Fall is ideal
- Less compaction
- Thicker turf
Five-step tree + shrub program
Spring and fall slow-release fertilizer with micronutrients supports flowering plants, while three growing-season systemic insecticide and miticide visits help control bagworms, beetles, mites, and other vegetation-eating pests.
- 5 visits
- March–October
Disease control
Brown spots during heat and humidity may point to fungus rather than drought. Three proactive visits—mid-May, mid-June, and mid-July—help protect susceptible turf before disease gains ground.
- 3 applications
- Brown patch focus
Insect + grub control
Professional applications help reduce lawn-damaging grubs and biting pests such as ticks, fleas, and chiggers. The current program describes roughly 20–30 days of residual activity during the summer season.
- People + pets
- 20–30 day residual
Target where mosquitoes rest
Fogging focuses on shrubs, the underside of plants and trees, under decks and gazebos, around roofline overhangs, and landscape features near water. Homeowners can support the service by removing stagnant water between visits.
- 30–40 days control
- Targeted fogging
Emerald Ash Borer injections
The invasive beetle can kill a healthy ash tree quickly from the inside. A professional tree injection provides up to 24 months of protection and can help avoid removal cost, safety hazards, lost shade, and higher cooling demands.
- 24 months
- One injection
The complete seasonal rhythm
An 8-Step Lawn Treatment Program for Evansville Turf.
This is the detail behind the signature program—not one product repeated eight times, but a proven order that changes with the lawn.
Wake up + prevent crabgrass
Early-spring fertilizer wakes the lawn after winter while the first of two crabgrass-control rounds targets unwanted grassy weeds before they establish.
Broadleaf weeds + second prevention
The second crabgrass round pairs with premium broadleaf herbicide to control visible spring weeds such as dandelions and clover.
Slow-release summer color
Ammonium-sulfate fertilizer feeds for roughly 8–10 weeks and helps create the deep, dark green color that sets a lawn apart.
Nutsedge + proactive grub control
Suppress tall, neon-green yellow nutsedge for approximately 25–30 days while protecting roots against lawn-destroying grubs.
Control summer’s toughest weeds
A targeted spray addresses the stubborn broadleaf weeds and fast-growing nutsedge that become most active during early summer.
Late-summer weed pressure
A second focused round continues broadleaf and nutsedge suppression while heat and humidity keep difficult weeds active.
Recover after summer stress
High-nitrogen, slow-release granular fertilizer encourages root growth, restores rich color, and supports stronger drought tolerance.
Store energy + winterize
A final high-nitrogen feeding reaches the plant before dormancy, building the root reserves that help healthy lawns “pop” earlier next spring.
Aeration + overseeding, unpacked
Core Aeration and Overseeding for Thicker Indiana Lawns.
Core aeration pulls thumb-sized plugs throughout the yard. Those openings reduce the compaction created when summer heat “bakes” Southern Indiana clay, giving roots a path back to oxygen, water, fertilizer, and premium seed.
- Reduce excess thatch
- Relieve soil compaction
- Improve water absorption
- Send fertilizer toward roots
- Encourage stronger roots
- Build turf that crowds out weeds
What is thatch—and when is it a problem?
When the thatch layer grows thicker than roughly one-half inch, it can interfere with the movement of oxygen, water, and nutrients into the root zone.
Why is fall better than spring for seed?
Warm soil and cooler air reduce stress while new grass matures. Spring seed has less time to establish before summer, and crabgrass pre-emergent can interfere with germination.
What if the lawn is too damaged for overseeding alone?
Severe bare areas may call for power or slit seeding. Properties with more weeds and bare soil than healthy grass may need a case-by-case renovation and complete restart.
The outdoor protection lab
Lawn Disease, Mosquito, Insect and Tree Care in Evansville.
Better results come from getting the details right: mowing height, watering time, visit cadence, and target zones all change the outcome.
Matt’s Turf connects turf, ornamental, insect, mosquito, disease, and tree protection services so the entire property receives more specific care.
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Brown-patch prevention
Disease pressure rises with heat, humidity, wet grass blades, and weakened turf. Proactive applications land in mid-May, mid-June, and mid-July.
- Water deeply in the early morning—roughly 4–6 a.m.
- Avoid late-day watering that leaves blades wet overnight.
- Mow most turf at 4+ inches and remove no more than one-third of the blade.
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Mosquito control follows mosquito behavior
Technicians treat the shaded and sheltered places where mosquitoes rest—not simply the open lawn.
- Shrubs, plants, and the underside of foliage
- Decks, gazebos, roofline overhangs, and structures
- Grass and landscape features near ponds or moving water
- Homeowner source reduction for stagnant water
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Ticks, fleas, chiggers + grubs
Monthly summer applications can help create a barrier against biting insects while proactive grub control protects the root system from hidden damage.
- Built for households that use the yard often
- Especially useful around pets and play areas
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Ornamental care feeds and defends
Slow-release spring fertilizer supports flowering plants. Three systemic insect visits reduce feeding damage, and fall fertilizer finishes the season.
- Micronutrients for perennials and annuals
- Bagworms, beetles, mites + vegetation-eating pests
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One injection can protect valuable shade
Emerald Ash Borer infestations can kill healthy ash trees quickly. Protection helps preserve property value and avoid the removal, safety, and cooling costs of losing mature shade.
- Top-of-the-line professional tree injection
- Two years of protection from one treatment
Neighbor-tested results
Why Evansville Homeowners Choose Matt’s Turf.
Long-term customers talk about greener turf, dependable communication, careful gates, and results that beat both DIY care and national companies.
Our yard has never looked better. I spent almost as much trying to do it myself before calling Matt for a free consultation. My yard is thicker, greener and weed free.
Have enjoyed your dependable, good service for 4 years. This year we added the mosquito spraying and really benefited from it too.
They transformed my lawn into what it is today. They always call a day before service, and all I get from the neighbors is how great my lawn looks.
We have used Matt’s Turf for over 10 years. They are always professional, our lawn always looks amazing and green, and they leave everything the way they found it.
Their attention to detail is second to none. Every lawn is different, and their expertise in the products they use makes them the best choice.
Lawn looks better now that I am using Matt’s Turf than it did when I was using a large national company. So glad I switched!
Let’s talk turf
Request a Lawn Care Estimate in Evansville, IN.
Whether the issue is crabgrass, thin turf, compacted soil, summer brown spots, mosquitoes, biting insects, stressed ornamentals, or a vulnerable ash tree, the free-estimate process helps the team connect symptoms with the right program.
Serving Evansville, Newburgh, and surrounding Tri-State communities.