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Lumpy-Bumpy Lawn – Causes and Fixes (How to Repair a Bumpy Lawn)

One call we get a lot of in the Spring is “My lawn is really bumpy and uneven. Can you repair my lumpy lawn, could you roll my lawn for me?” On the heavy clay soil we have in the…

Is your lawn a little ‘Rusty’? Lawn Rust Disease

Lawn Rust, a fungus of the Pucciniaceae family, is a lawn disease condition that stains the surface of grass blades an orange-rusty colour making the turfgrass plant appear similar to metal left out in the elements. Heavy night time dews, cooler…

Voles dig tunnels under snow, leave tracks in Spring

Help! What’s Ripping Up My Lawn? What Do I Do? When Spring comes and the snow melts, everything’s supposed to be coming up roses, Right?  Well if you’re like most people as soon as the snow recedes – it reveals…

How Short Should I Cut My Grass Before Winter?

Jump To: How Short To Cut Your Grass Before Winter, Contact Us, Other Lawn Care Tips 3 Steps to Winterizing Your Lawn Tools needed: leaf rake, lawn mower with a sharp blade Cut grass the optimal length before winter. The…

Southern Ontario Leatherjacket Alert!

Leather jackets and Crane Flies are cropping up again on lawns in the GTA.  Leather jackets are the larval stage of Crane Flies. They usually re-appear in the leatherjacket form in Late April through Early May, as the rain helps…

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. …

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. …

How to help your lawn recover from snow mould and winter damage

We just got an email from one of our customers.  She writes: As our grass begins to appear from under the snow I’m noticing dry little patches that look like hay. What does this mean? Kyle says, “I also saw…

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…