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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. Lawns in Ontario are comprised of ‘Cool-season’ grass species like Kentucky Bluegrass…
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,…
Chinch Bugs In Your Lawn Spotted (Everywhere!)
Our technicians begin to find adult chinch bugs emerging from lawns as early as the beginning of June most years in the Toronto Area. They are usually found in the thatch. Their young, commonly called ‘nymphs’ are the ones that…
Necrotic Ring Spot Fungal Disease appearing on lawns
What to do with Brown Circles on your lawn? You might have Necrotic Ring Spot! The hot weather and frequent rain are creating ideal conditions for lawn fungus disease to thrive. The most serious lawn fungus/disease issue we see exposed…
Spruce Tree Losing Needles – Sawfly Emergency
If something is eating the needles on your Spruce tree, you may have a Sawfly problem. Yellow-headed sawfly can attack spruce trees usually from early June to July. These voracious eaters strip needles from spruce, and those needles will NEVER…
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…
