With every passing week, it seems, more bad news comes out about pesticides and the harm they may be causing to the environment. The media attention spurs an ongoing, heated argument about the positives and negatives of pesticide use. There’s… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘lawn care’
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How to Store Lawn Tools in Your Garage
Do you have a problem with storing lawn tools in your garage? Things like hoes, shovels, rakes, weed eaters, leaf blowers, etc? These tools can be difficult to store. While some people just lean them up in a corner, that’s… Read More
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Get Your Lawn Sprinkler System Ready for Winter
The days are getting short. Fall leaves are swirling, and most mornings dawn with a nip in the air. Winter is just around the corner. And your lawn sprinkler system – that served you so well during the long and… Read More
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Umm…Why Is Your Lawn Sprinkler On? It’s Raining!
Well, the blast-furnace heat of summer is over. Finally! And now we’re enjoying the season of the year that is the favorite of many people. That means kaleidoscope-colored showers of leaves swirling through the air. It means delightfully cool and… Read More
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Why You Should Install Your New Landscape Lighting System This Fall
Are you considering having a landscape lighting system installed? Maybe you’ve been thinking about it for a while, but just can’t get off the fence. Or maybe you were planning on getting it done this summer, but just kept putting… Read More
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7 Top Tips for Watering New Turfgrass
Do areas of your lawn need touching-up with some new turfgrass? Are you re-sodding your entire lawn? Or maybe you have a brand new lawn to sod? You can lay new sod just about any time of the year, spring… Read More
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A DIY Totem: A Unique Finishing Touch for Your Garden
Is your garden a little bit on the bland side? Sort of mundane? Just a cookie-cutter replica of a hundred other gardens in your neighborhood? If so, here’s an idea for decorating your garden that you probably never thought of:… Read More
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Is Your Lawn Grass Feeling the Heat? How You Can Help…
It’s been a long, hot summer. And though the worst of the heat may be over, summer isn’t quite finished with us yet. Mother Nature’s likely to send the mercury soaring several more times before she turns cold for the… Read More
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Want to Know More about Gnomes?
They’re kind of cute and cuddly-looking. Sort of strange and mysterious. And if you look at them just right when they’re cast in just-so lighting, they can even appear to be bit creepy-looking. We’re talking about garden gnomes, of course…. Read More
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The Top Ten Landscaping Projects for 2015
What are the most popular landscape-related projects for homeowners this year? The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently posed that very question to nearly 600 professional landscape architects. But the ASLA survey wasn’t asking what types of projects most… Read More