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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

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

Common Lawn Issues During Hot Iowa Summers

As sweet as summertime is, it’s not all ballgames, barbecues and suntans for grass. Only the strongest lawns survive an unpredictably hot Iowa summer still looking seasonably green by Labor Day. On average, the sun beans toasty 83-degree rays on Iowa during the sweltering days of summer, per RSS Weather.com. And your yard, which never […]

Jun 14, 2022

Why Grub & Weed Control is Essential for a Healthy Lawn

The phantoms come out of the shadows every spring on unprepared lawns. You can bet your lawn mower on it. They announce their buggy and weedy selves without warning. One day you have a seemingly weedless lawn. The next day they are seemingly everywhere. Grubs and weeds often appear out of nowhere, instantly dulling the […]

May 06, 2022

Clumping Tall Fescue: The Unwanted Grass Clumps in Your Yard

It is a perennial nemesis of every home owner that rears its aggressive self every spring: Clumpy grass. While pretty in the right natural setting, this nuisance grass is never going to end up on a Better Homes & Gardens cover and can dampen the overall look and health of your lawn. It stands out […]

Apr 05, 2022