Mulching your plants is an important step in maintaining a healthy growing environment. Mulch helps conserve moisture in the ground during the hot summer months by reducing surface evaporation and cooling the ground. Later it warms the ground during the cold periods, protecting plants by regulating temperatures and preventing temperature extremes. Mulch discourages weeds by keeping light from reaching them, eliminating their harmful competition with trees and shrubs. [Read more...]
6 Steps to Renovating Your Lawn

After a visit from the “lawn doctor” was the prognosis intensive care? What wasn’t left for dead buried under tons of winter snow now must dry out from spring rains that have deluged the area. Where is the green that lifts our spirits? The answer is in 6 easy steps to renovation your lawn. [Read more...]
Is it time to fertilize my lawn?
Once the early signs of spring arrive, rake the leaves and debris off your lawn and check it for signs of new growth. Most grass carries a bit of green color through the winter. But when you start to see a bit more green apply a fertilizer to help the lawn grow faster. Be sure not to exceed the recommended spreader setting because too much can harm the grass and turn it brown. [Read more...]
Choosing & Using Spreaders
No matter what kind of lawn products you use, their performance depends in large measure on the quality of the spreader that you use to apply them. A poor-quality spreader often leaves missed streaks or patches in the lawn where the material is either not applied, or is applied at the wrong rate. This causes unsatisfactory control of weeds, insects, and fungus disease as well as poor fertilizer performance. [Read more...]






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