Uncategorized Your Lawn Mower: More Dangerous Than Lightning & Alligators April 2, 2024 Forget sharks, alligators and bears, a greater danger is sitting in your garage right now, just waiting for your call. Opening Day of the 2024 lawn mowing season is here, and if you listen closely, you can hear the sweet sound of mowers firing up and back into action for the season. But with the […] Read more »
Uncategorized Welcome to March: Your Lawn’s Spring Training Season March 2, 2024 The world is full of waiting games. Being stuck in glacier-slow rush hour traffic. Waiting on hold for an hour with Amazon Customer Service. Waiting for paint to dry. The countdown to your number being called at the DMV. Waiting for green grass to come back in spring falls in line with life’s most least-exciting […] Read more »
Turf Diseases Brown Patch Lawn Disease: What Is It and How to Prevent It? January 9, 2024 What is brown patch disease? Brown patch lawn disease, caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia solani, is a common fungal infection affecting grasses, particularly cool-season grasses like tall fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, and perennial ryegrass. It’s prevalent in humid and warm conditions, often appearing during the summer months. Characterized by circular or irregularly shaped patches of brown, […] Read more »
Uncategorized The Easy-To-Keep New Year’s Resolution: Resolve to Care For Your Lawn Better in ’24 January 4, 2024 New Year’s Resolutions. Millions of Americans will make them this year (37% of the country according to Forbes Health). But as we know, New Year’s Resolutions are far easier to make than keep. The Fisher College of Business reports only 9% of Americans successfully complete their resolutions; 43% give up hope on following through with […] Read more »
Turf Diseases What Is Snow Mold & How to Get Rid of It? December 6, 2023 What Is Snow Mold? The name sounds like something out of a low-budget holiday horror movie, but it’s a very real and present threat to lawn health during the snowy cold of winter. Like the most devious of villains, snow mold’s negative impact on grass isn’t exposed until spring when snow melts. Snow mold emerges […] Read more »
Uncategorized First Frost: Helpful Lawn Care Tips November 14, 2023 It’s a nature battle as old as time. Grass versus Frost. As long as there has been grass, there has been frost putting a cold hard chill on it come late autumn. Frost arrives when water in the atmosphere settles and freezes. This is where the issue develops between frost and grass. Thankfully, it’s a […] Read more »
Uncategorized Are Leaves Bad For Your Lawn? October 4, 2023 Autumn: a beautiful time of change. The season of falling leaves. Thousands and thousands of falling leaves from maple, elm, oak and walnut trees. Every day. They are a gorgeous sign of the changing of the seasons. They are also a homeowner with a bad back’s worst nightmare as they work to remove the colorful […] Read more »
Uncategorized Nurturing Your Lawn: Reviving Nitrogen-Starved Grass for a Vibrant August Recovery August 15, 2023 You’re not the only one with heat exhaustion. Our lawns just spend 31 days cooking and burning on the hottest sun grill in human history. “Hot, hotter, hottest,” USA Today’s Doyle Eice writes. “July will end up as the Earth’s hottest month on record and quite possible the hottest single month in some 120,000 years, […] Read more »
Uncategorized Iowa Summer Drought Lawn Survival Guide July 10, 2023 As everyone who lives in Eastern Iowa knows, rain has been seen about as often as Big Foot this summer. So far, the summer of 2023 is one of the driest on record in Iowa with most of the state running far beyond normal precipitation levels through June 30. Where are we living? Death Valley? […] Read more »
Uncategorized Know the Secrets to Keeping a Green Iowa Lawn in June June 12, 2023 The thermostat tells the story, but we can all feel what the next page of the calendar will bring. The summertime heat is on in Iowa, which means the sun is declaring an intense all-out war on your lawn. Friends, welcome to June, named for the Roman goddess of youth, who must have loved a […] Read more »
