Lawn and Garden Store Serving Petersburg, Colonial Heights & the Tri-Cities
Your Hometown Garden Center for 50+ Years
If you’re searching for a lawn and garden store near me, a garden center near me, or just a place to grab the right fertilizer, mulch, or grass seed, Thacker Ace Hardware has you covered. We carry the lawn fertilizers, weed control, grass seed, soil, mulch, and gardening supplies people actually use to create better-looking yards.
Thacker Ace Hardware is the local lawn and garden center for Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and the surrounding Tri-Cities region. With two convenient locations, an in-store selection that can’t be matched by big box stores or online, and a team that actually knows what works in Virginia soil, we are proud to be the family-owned hardware store you can count on for everything outside your front door.
Truly Local for Over 50 Years
Family owned and operated lawn and garden center with 50+ years of community service in Petersburg and Colonial Heights.
Expert Help for DIYers and Pros
Get your questions answered and receive project guidance for homeowners and local support for landscaping companies.
A Bigger In-Store Selection Than the Box Stores
More tools and hardware, more lawn and garden supplies, and more “in-store only” items you won’t find online, always with convenient in-store pickup.
Who We Are
Why Tri-Cities Homeowners Choose Our Lawn and Garden Center
When you search “lawn and garden store near me,” you want a place where the staff can actually answer your questions. You want a friendly face from the community who will walk you to the exact product you’re looking for.
At Thacker Ace Hardware, every lawn and garden question gets answered to the fullest extent. Bring in a patch of dying grass, a photo of the weed taking over your beds, or the part number off your old mower, and we’ll find the exact thing you’re looking for.
Get Your Grill On
Why Smart Lawn Care Starts With a Plan
Ace YardRx changes the home lawn and garden experience. Instead of making you figure it out, YardRx creates a lawn care plan for you based on your address and yard size, with products lined up for the right time of year. It’s your personalized yard prescription.
Three timed shipments arrive through the season, each one timed to when your lawn actually needs that step. You apply the products yourself. There is no subscription lock-in, no contracts, and you can adjust or cancel at any time.
Program members get 20% off subscription pricing vs. buying the same products one bag at a time. That’s why locals choose Thacker when they want a better lawn and garden center experience — a smarter way to decide what your yard needs to get your neighbors asking how you keep your lawn looking so good.
YardRx is a smarter DIY lawn care subscription. You can start your YardRx plan online in about five minutes.
Lawn and Garden Mistakes Virginia Homeowners Make That Waste Time and Money
You’re Not a Turf Scientist. You Shouldn’t Have to Be.
Lawn care advice that actually works for Virginia yards.
Most lawn and garden advice — online, in a big box, or from the neighbor — is oversimplified, wrong for Virginia, or both. Wrong fertilizer, wrong timing, or wrong grass type can weaken or even burn your lawn. That’s why our team at Thacker Ace Hardware is ready to help.
Bring us a photo of your lawn, a piece of dying grass, or a sample of the weed taking over your beds, and we’ll diagnose it on the spot — then walk you to the product that actually fixes it.
For DIYers
Bring us a photo of your dying grass, a weed sample from your beds, or the part number from your old mower. We’ll match the grass type and growing season to the right fertilizer, the right pre-emergent, and the right mulch for your beds — so you stop guessing what works in Virginia clay. Spring fertilizer is not fall fertilizer, and cool-season grass food is not warm-season grass food. We’ll make sure you walk out with the correct bag, in the right amount, every time.
For Landscapers & Property Pros
When you’re running a crew, the wrong product or the wrong timing wastes a service call. We carry the tall fescue blends, fertilizer programs, weed control, soil amendments, and bulk mulch that local landscapers actually use, and we keep deeper selection on the products that move in this market. Call ahead with a list and we’ll have it ready for pickup, or come in and we’ll help you scope the job.
Hardware Stores Don’t Really Do Services? We Do.
Most of our in-house services tie directly into lawn and garden work:
- Mower blade sharpening
- STIHL repair and parts
- Bulk mulch and soil loading
- Propane refills
- Screen repair
- Special orders for the project you’re planning
- Delivery
Walk in with a photo, a sample, or a project idea, and we’ll handle the diagnosis, the products, and the services in one stop. Stop in at Petersburg or Colonial Heights, or call (804) 766-4ACE.
The Communities That Shop With Us
Thacker Ace Hardware has been the local lawn and garden store for the Tri-Cities since 1973. With two locations in Petersburg and Colonial Heights, we’re a short drive from most of central and southside Virginia, and our customers come to us from across the region for the products, advice, and services they can’t get at the big box.
Find the Right Thacker Location for Your Lawn & Garden Project
Petersburg & Southside. Our Petersburg store on South Crater Road serves the heart of the Tri-Cities and the neighborhoods around Fort Gregg-Adams. Whether you’re starting a new lawn off Wagner Road, refreshing the beds at a rental property in Ettrick, or stocking up before a weekend yard project in Disputanta, we’ve got the lawn and garden selection to get you set up in one stop.
Colonial Heights & Chesterfield. Our Colonial Heights store at Dunlop Village pulls customers from along the Boulevard, Temple Avenue, and Southpark, plus the Chesterfield neighborhoods that run up toward Chester and Meadowbrook.
Hopewell & Prince George. Customers from Hopewell, Prince George, Enon, and the river-county neighborhoods come into both stores for what they need, and we keep deeper selection on the products that move in this market.
Quick “am I close?” landmarks
If you’re near Southpark Mall, Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia State University, Dunlop Village, or Old Towne Petersburg, you’re typically only a few minutes from one of our stores. If you’re working a yard in Chester, Disputanta, or Enon, both locations are an easy drive — and we keep enough bulk mulch, soil, and fertilizer on hand to handle a same-day pickup.
Communities we serve include:
- Petersburg
- Colonial Heights
- Hopewell
- Prince George
- Chester
- Chesterfield
- Ettrick
- Matoaca
- Disputanta
- Dinwiddie
- Sutherland
- Carson
- Enon
- Meadowbrook
- Fort Gregg-Adams
- Old Towne Petersburg
Don’t see your neighborhood listed? If you’re in the Tri-Cities, you’re closer to one of our stores than you think. Stop in, give us a call at (804) 766-4ACE, or use the contact form.
Start With a YardRx Plan. Then Shop Local.
Lawn & Garden FAQs
Lawn and garden questions tend to come up at the same time each year – “what fertilizer do I need,” “when do I apply pre-emergent,” “what grass should I plant.” Here are the questions we hear most often from Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Tri-Cities homeowners. If yours isn’t answered below, stop in or call (804) 766-4ACE.
That is exactly what Ace YardRx is built for. You enter your address and yard size, and it builds a personalized lawn care plan with the right products timed to the season. It’s essentially a yard prescription — hence the name. Add a quick visit to either Thacker store and we’ll fine-tune the plan based on what we can see in your photos and samples.
Both, depending on how you use it. YardRx works as a personalized yard care program, with product bundles that ship two to three times per year, timed to when your lawn actually needs each step. You can also just use it as a planning tool and pick up the products in-store. There is no lock-in or long-term contract, so you can adjust or cancel at any time.
In the Tri-Cities, your spring pre-emergent should go down when soil temperatures hit a steady 55°F for several days in a row — usually mid-March to the first week of April. If the forsythia in your neighborhood is in full bloom, you’re either right on time or a little late.
Apply too early and the product breaks down before crabgrass germinates. Apply too late and the weeds are already up and you’re wasting the bag. We carry pre-emergents in stock at both locations — stop in and we’ll tell you which one fits your grass type and whether your timing this year is on track.
Tall fescue is the workhorse cool-season grass for central Virginia lawns because it handles our humid summers, mild winters, and clay soil better than Kentucky bluegrass or warm-season options. If you’re starting a new lawn or overseeding bare patches, ask our team about the tall fescue blends we stock and we’ll match it to your sun, shade, and traffic conditions.
Both. For a few bushes, bagged mulch makes sense. For a full bed refresh or a bigger landscape project, bulk mulch and soil are faster and cheaper — one scoop usually replaces twenty bags. We carry bulk mulch and soil at both locations, and we can help you load up.
Yes, and we encourage it. The wrong fix can make a lawn or garden problem worse — grub damage, drought stress, dog urine, and fungal disease can all look like the same brown patch. Walk in with a photo or a sample and we’ll diagnose it on the spot, then walk you to the product that actually fixes it.
Word on the Street
When people call Thacker Ace Hardware “the helpful place,” they mean it. DIYers come in with questions and leave with the answers they need. Contractors stop in because they can get what they need quickly, without wasting time. Take a look at what your neighbors are saying—then come to the store and see why so many customers keep coming back.
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