Media Release December 6, 2011 Breathing new life into St. James Park New turfgrass will revive green space damaged by Occupy Toronto protest TORONTO — After five weeks playing host to Occupy Toronto protesters, the lawn at Toronto’s St. James…
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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. …
Frequent mowing is critical right now
The wet wet weather we are having is making greenery grow extremely well in the GTA right now. This is a two-sided coin though, because lawns can get overgrown and dandelions and other weeds are growing well too. The simple…
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…
What does winter mean for my lawn and trees this spring?
Yikes, It’s spring, and my lawn looks a scary combo of yellow and brown spots all over- what happened?? So what should I expect to happen to my lawn after winter? What happens when your lawn doesn’t get enough snow,…
“It’s like two more months of spring” – seed & repair lawns in fall for great results!
By the time September rolls around, some homeowners just seem to give up on their lawn, But did you know that late summer and fall is the best time to repair and thicken a stressed and thin lawn? Some people…
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…
Are you mowing your lawn often enough?
I had an unexpected, but not unwelcome job to do this Tuesday. I had stepped out, as I usually do, to quickly patrol my lawn to see if any dandelions had come up, so I could pull the flowers to stop…