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How to Avoid Accidentally Killing Your Lawn This Winter

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 […]

Jan 16, 2023

Why Does Grass Turn Brown During Winter?

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 […]

Dec 05, 2022

Are You Making These Common Fall Lawn Fertilizing Mistakes?

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 […]

Nov 04, 2022

How to Prep Your Lawn for Winter

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 […]

Oct 05, 2022

Lawn care, mowing, weed control by Creekside Turf Management in Marion, Iowa

Cutting Grass Too Short Is Bad For Its Health

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 […]

Sep 08, 2022

How to Help Your Lawn Weather the Dog Days of Summer

“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, […]

Aug 03, 2022

Inflation Comes For America’s Lawns

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 […]

Jul 17, 2022

Lawn Fungus: Could be an Irrigation Problem

What is causing grass fungus in the lawn? Fungus is the most prevalent in irrigated lawns. Homeowners often water at the wrong time. Setting your irrigation for the middle of the night is usually what triggers fungus to form. The reasoning is that the water sits there soaking into the ground and not evaporating,which is what we […]

Jul 07, 2022

One Year Lawn Transformation

This irrigated lawn has been battling a soil borne disease for several years. We came in and quickly got it on a fertilizer and fungicide program. After feeding the lawn the nutrients it needed, we came back in the fall to aerate and overseed. It has come a long way but there is still room […]

Jul 07, 2022

Ascochyta Leaf Blight: Increasingly Common Turf Disease in Iowa

Ascochyta has the potential to pop up in your lawn around the Cedar Rapids area. Our weather conditions have been quite favorable for this turf disease lately. Unfortunately, fungicide applications have limited success and aren’t typically recommended in treating Ascochyta. While the treatments are limited, the affected turf grass will grow out within 3 – […]

Jul 07, 2022