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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…
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…
Will the real corn gluten please stand up?
Some lawn care suppliers and retailers are taking advantage of the demand for organic weed management to push ineffective products. Corn gluten meal application, developed by Dr. Nick Christians of Iowa State University, works by making it hard for weed seeds…
How to water a lawn
This is an exchange we had with a new customer this year when we were asking the standard questions that allow us to offer up the best service. “Do you have a sprinkler system?” “Well, my husband…” “So he does…
