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2014 Christmas Parade Calendar & Planner (Greater Toronto Area including Barrie)

If you didn’t know by now, LawnSavers LOVES Christmas and also Santa Claus parades in the Greater Toronto Area!   We love Christmas so much that we actually spend all of November and December bringing joy to the cities we…

What’s the loud boom I hear in my lawn? Frost quakes

That’s right, your lawn isn’t wrestling with eating too much over the holidays, but it is making strange, loud and unusual noises, deep down below.

The Snow is melting, what’s wrong with my lawn? Snow Mould!

Here is a common question we often receive starting in February, snow mould is pretty normal after a winter with lots of snow. (But it can be very damaging) “I used your services last year and am about to prepay. …

When Summers bring HIGH Heat and LOW Rain! (or Turfageddon)

In Southern Ontario, weather can be unpredictable, swinging from early warm spells to unexpected snow and back to scorching heat in a matter of weeks. This volatility doesn’t just drive us humans crazy—it’s tough on our lawns too. Understanding the…

2011: Summer Heat, lack of rain means dormant lawns in GTA

July 12th 2011: (Observations from the field in the Greater Toronto Area) This Spring brought lots of rain through April and May, in fact, record rainfalls that made it very difficult to get out and work in your lawn and garden. …

Leaf Blight & drought stress running roughshod over southern Ontario lawns

(Written July 2010) It has been a brutally dry year overall for grass. Two years of record wet summers followed by a record dry Spring in decades has been followed by unseasonably high temperatures and humidity. The few long rains we’ve…

Hazard Alert: Giant Hogweed spreading in Ontario

Giant hogweed, (Heracleum mantegazzianum), is an invasive new weed that is colonizing in some parts of Ontario, eastern Provinces and Western Canada. Locally, it has been found in Ottawa, Halton region, Waterloo, Markham and the Don River valley in Toronto according…

GTA Watering alert!

We are finding lawns that are suffering acute drought stress. This whole spring has been terribly dry, and the heat and wind is only making it worse. The rain that is expected this week is welcome, but it just is…