Turf cleaning in Longs

Colonial Charters (Willard Byrd), Long Bay (Nicklaus) and Aberdeen (Tom Jackson, 1989) draw golfers who put a green in the backyard. Under Longs pines, straw plus March pollen turns a fast green slow and bumpy by spring.

Restoration clears it, top-dresses with green sand, brushes and rolls it; weekly blowing keeps it there.

Off the subdivisions, Longs is rural: acre-plus lots, longleaf pines and oaks, turf put down so the used part of the yard skips mowing. It takes the heaviest leaf, needle and pollen load on the coast — blow weekly in spring, power-brush and flush after pollen ends.

Private wells are the usual reason for white, chalky crust; point the heads away from the turf. Hard-water removal takes it off.

Longs is about nine miles inland — far enough that salt is not the issue it is in Cherry Grove, close enough to catch the humidity and the storms. The 2018 flooding from Hurricane Florence kept the Waccamaw high for weeks.

After a storm here the job is branches, blown debris and standing water rather than sand and salt; the seam-and-edge walk matters because turf that sat in water can float. Storm cleanup.

Fur-ever Friends runs cage-free boarding and daycare; there's no public dog park in Longs, Waggin' Tails in Little River nearest. Dogs here have room to run, so odor usually comes from one spot by the back door, not the whole yard.

Longs is unincorporated Horry County; on acreage the rinse goes into the ground, and we still bag solids and let treatments dwell.