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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,…

Black Medic Weed on Lawns

What Is Black Medic? We received an email the other day asking about the best way to control the weed Black Medic on a home lawn. Black Medic (Medicago lupulina) is a difficult-to-control weed due to its small leaf size…

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…

Sir, step away from the fertilizer NOW! Astounding do-it-yourself lawn care results!

Sure, anybody can take care of the lawn, right? Well, some of your neighbours have chosen to roll up their sleeves and tackle lawn care head-on by themselves doing things like spreading fertilizer by hand. The results have to be seen…

Check out what is happening at St.James Park! LAWNS are just as good as trees

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…

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…

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…

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…