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Why Have All These Mushrooms Appeared on My Lawn?
It’s a common question we get asked a lot ‘why do I have mushrooms growing in my lawn?‘ Cool, damp weather after bouts of high heat encourages mushrooms to grow in lawns in Ontario. High, lingering overnight humidity and dampness…
Where is the best place to grow grass?
Great question: Hey Kyle, I’m helping a potential customer from Oakville who wants to grow grass in the garden areas underneath his trees. (Pics attached). He also has a garden he wants to cover with grass up against a building, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
