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Necrotic ring spot appearing on lawns

What To Do With Brown Circles on Your Lawn? Jump To: What To Do If You Have Necrotic Ring Spots On Your Lawn, How To Prevent Necrotic Ring Spots, Contact Us, Other Lawn Care Tips The hot weather and frequent…

Bentgrass Plus Drought Plus Heat, Means Dead Patches on Lawns

When we receive unseasonably high heat and dry weather, these conditions cause bentgrass and other annual weedy grasses in lawns to brown out much earlier than we normally see it. If you are seeing areas on your lawn yellowing or browning right now,…

How to Save Your Lawn & Trees From Heat and Drought Stress

Many homeowners like you want to know how you can help your lawn and garden make it through intense heat when it is sweltering hot and humid out. Summer forecasted highs in the GTA typically get anywhere from 34 deg…

Southern Ontario Leatherjacket Alert!

We have been seeing a lot of Leatherjacket insect larvae in lawns in the GTA in the last week.  Leather jackets are the larval stage of Crane Flies. They usually re-appear in the leatherjacket form in Late April through Early…

Chinch Bugs In Your Lawn Spotted (Everywhere!)

Our technicians are finding adult chinch bugs emerging from thatch as well as their young,  commonly called ‘nymphs’ in lawns throughout the Greater Toronto Area.  We started finding them earlier in June which is earlier than we normally see them…

White Grubs in Your Lawn? How to Repair Lawn Damage From Grubs

Grub damage is typically caused in the spring and is the end result of hungry insects attacking lawns in the previous fall, coupled with raccoons and skunks digging up the lawn to look for them and eat them.  Preventative grub…

2016 Spring Lawn Conditions update (Greater Toronto Area)

Subject:  Transcript of Spring Update for our customers. Greater Toronto Area Weather review Partnering on your lawn for best results My name is Kyle and I’m calling from your lawn care company LawnSavers with a spring update and special request.…

The Snow is melting, whats wrong with my lawn? Snow Mould!

Here is a common question we’ve received in the past week, 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 renew,…

Back to School means Back to work on the lawn

Just because the kids are going back to school soon, doesn’t mean the summer is over, at least not for your lawn and trees.  In fact, we are just embarking on the best growing weather you can ask for when it…

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. …