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How to control your weeds in 7 Steps – Lawn Care 101

Every Year, homeowners wake up to the reality that their lawns and gardens are living  biological organisms that start to grow again each spring with or without our effort and input. But the difference is, what you do or do…

Does Rolling Your Lawn Really Work? How To Fix a Bumpy Lawn Properly

What’s in This Guide About How To Fix A Bumpy Lawn: How Do You Fix A Lumpy Bumpy Lawn? What Is Causing My Lumpy Bumpy Lawn In The First Place? FAQ About Best Lawn Care Practices Why is My Lawn…

“Help, the Raccoons & Skunks Are Tearing Up My Lawn!”

  This is the common call of thousands of frantic homeowners every spring to our lawn experts as the soil warms and they look out to find animals have been digging holes in their yard during the night. The first…

Lumpy-bumpy lawn – Causes and Fixes (How to Repair a Bumpy Lawn)

One call we get a lot of in the Spring is “My lawn is really bumpy and uneven. Can you repair my lumpy lawn, could you roll my lawn for me?” On the heavy clay soil we have in the…

A question about dethatching

I recently received a good question about dethatching in my email. “Is dethatching a lawn necessary or even advisable with sandy well drained soil?” Only if you have extreme thatch. We consider it an emergency service for lawns that are…

What do I do with all these spruce needles?

I got another interesting question recently. We handle tree care as well as lawn care, and you’d be surprised how much overlap there is. “Spruce needles (lots of reddish brown needles) have fallen from very old trees onto my lawn,…

Southern Ontario Leatherjacket Alert!

Leather jackets and Crane Flies are cropping up again on lawns in the GTA.  Leather jackets are the larval stage of Crane Flies. They usually re-appear in the leatherjacket form in Late April through Early May, as the rain helps…

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…

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…

What’s the loud boom I hear in my lawn? Frost quakes

That’s right, your lawn isn’t wrestling with eating too much over the holidays, but it is making strange, loud and unusual noises, deep down below.