Turf cleaning in Shallotte

Every nearby town skews older: Sunset Beach 68, Calabash 56.4. Shallotte's median age is 49.7, and the population grew almost 14 percent last census — a family-town number. A Shallotte backyard gets a soccer goal, a trampoline and a dog the same weekend: a flattened path from daily foot traffic, and a pet corner that smells after a storm. Power brushing stands paths back up; pet odor removal treats the corner.

Rivers Edge Golf Club and Plantation is built around an Arnold Palmer Signature 18, and the community has its own oceanfront beach club at the coast for members, ten minutes from the course itself. Brierwood Estates, around the Brierwood Golf Club, is the other golf neighborhood in town. Backyard greens in both need the same fall cleanup as the fairways: cleared, top-dressed with kiln-dried green sand, brushed and rolled before spring. Putting green restoration.

Shallotte sits on the Shallotte River, and humidity off it keeps the shaded side of a yard damp most of the year — what algae wants. Shallotte Township District Park has a fenced dog park, and Tiki Paws Doggie Daycare runs on Whiteville Road, which spreads pet load out rather than concentrating it in one corner. Algae and mold removal handles the shaded strips.