What is IPM and how does it affect my home?

Integrated pest management is a process that we use here at Highland Outdoor that is the most environmentally friendly way of taking care of your, turf, trees, and landscape.  This process allows us to take care of every aspect of your outdoors with the least impact on the environment.    Here at Highland Outdoor we want to be the best steward of our environment without compromising its beauty.

A good IPM definition comes from Dr. Vic Gibeault and others from the University of California, Riverside. They defined IPM as “multiple tactics used in a compatible manner in order to maintain pest populations below levels that cause economic or unacceptable aesthetic injury without posing a hazard to humans, domestic animals, or other non-target life forms.”

IPM combines all available pest management methods to produce the healthiest lawn possible. It does not aim to totally eliminate pests, but to maintain pest populations at tolerable levels. Pesticides are often part of an IPM program, but are selected and applied responsibly to avoid health risks to other living organisms than those targeted.
Pest management control practices in an Integrated Pest Management program include:

• •    soil management
• •    turfgrass selection
• •    appropriate cultural practices
• •    biological and genetic controls
• •    physical or mechanical removal
• •    exclusion through prevention and sanitation
• •    pesticides.

Here at Highland Outdoor we have the knowledge it takes to understand the turf, the tree and the shrubs and the pests that affect them.  We monitor your property to make sure you understand what is going on in your landscape.  Then we diagnosis what is going on in the landscape and treat the problem at the correct time with the least amount of environmental impact as possible.