Uncategorized The Whats, Whys and Hows of Dethatching March 10, 2023 Dethatching. It’s far from the most exciting word in lawn care, but one of the most essential terms for homeowners to know and understand. It’s also no homeowner’s idea of a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but, for at-risk lawns, it’s an absolutely necessary chore every once in a thatchy grass while. Dethatching […] Read more »
Uncategorized Applying Spring Pre-Emergent Fertilizer for Weed Prevention March 1, 2023 Even during the bitter cold of winter and early spring, weeds never sleep. Like ninjas in the grass, they are quietly plotting their return to unwelcome, unsightly invasion of your lawn and garden. As any veteran gardener and landscaper will tell you, it’s never too early to begin the fight against invasive weeds and grass. […] Read more »
Uncategorized For Lawns, Snow Actually Has Positive Attributes February 7, 2023 Snow, what is it good for? For most people who are not professional skiers, snowblower salesmen or 5-year-olds who want to go sledding 24/7, the answer is nothing. But for your lawn, believe it or not, snow can be a godsend, a natural fertilizer and insulator that protects it from the winter’s harshest elements and […] Read more »
Uncategorized How to Avoid Accidentally Killing Your Lawn This Winter January 16, 2023 Behold winter, the one season that should come with a Lawn Health Advisory Warning. Winter’s harsh elements spare no one, especially those who battle and endure it 24/7. As if 50 below zero wind chills, Iowa blizzards, cement skies and waves of snowstorms weren’t enough, your lawn is also weathering other dangerous man-made auxiliary threats […] Read more »
Uncategorized Why Does Grass Turn Brown During Winter? December 5, 2022 It’s one of the most winteresque, depressing signs of winter: brown, seemingly lifeless lawns. It’s the antithesis of a Norman Rockwell painting. In a word, it’s dull. Just like white snow is the trademark color of winter, brown is the signature color of grass in hibernation until warmer, friendlier weather arrives in spring. But exactly […] Read more »
Uncategorized Are You Making These Common Fall Lawn Fertilizing Mistakes? November 4, 2022 The first, toughest rule of life is nobody’s perfect. Even the 1985 Chicago Bears lost once. Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, has misfired on over 4,000 of his nearly 12,000 career passing attempts. In Major League Baseball’s vast 147-year history, only 23 pitchers have thrown a perfect game and those pitchers were […] Read more »
Uncategorized How to Prep Your Lawn for Winter October 5, 2022 You can feel it through the new chill in the air. You can see its arrival in the not-to-distant future from the ominous turning of the falling leaves. You can sense its approach the turning days, months and pages of the calendar. As Lord Ned Stark would say, “Winter is coming.” But as you analyze […] Read more »
Uncategorized Cutting Grass Too Short Is Bad For Its Health September 8, 2022 Why Buzz Cuts Are Bad Looks for Lawns It’s the most dangerous lie in lawn care, and one that has spelled doom and bad health for many an American lawn. Alas, the shorter you cut your grass does not equate to less times having to mow it. “Forget the lawn-mowing myth that saws the shorter […] Read more »
Uncategorized How to Help Your Lawn Weather the Dog Days of Summer August 3, 2022 “Hello, August. Please be gentle on my lawn.” A late-summer prayer spoken by many Anonymous Iowa Homeowners The dog days of August can be all-out bummers for lawn. For a lawn already burnt out from baking under two months of summer and unprepared for the grueling harsh heat and humidity of summer’s closing act, […] Read more »
Uncategorized Inflation Comes For America’s Lawns July 17, 2022 Inflation today spares no one, not even the most evergreen and pristine of lawns. “Inflation is coming for your lawn,” Linkedin’s Mischa Fischer warns. Soaring gas prices, escalating labor costs and equipment shortages are helping send the price of the average lawnmower, both manual and riding, rocketing skyward with no cap ceiling in site. Even […] Read more »
