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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!”

What’s in This Guide About Raccoons Tearing Up Lawns: How to Stop Raccoons & Skunks from Digging up Your Lawn FAQ About Best Lawn Care Practices How Many Times a Week Should You Water Your Lawn? What is Aeration? What…

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…

Southern Ontario Leatherjacket Alert!

We have been seeing a lot of Leatherjacket insect larvae in lawns in the GTA in the last week.  Leather jackets are the larval stage of Crane Flies. They usually re-appear in the leatherjacket form in Late April through Early…

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,…

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.

The Snow is melting, whats wrong with my lawn? Snow Mould!

Here is a common question we’ve received in the past week, 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 renew,…

Is it beneficial to begin lawn care in the Fall?

A very common question we receive about lawns every year once the kids go back to school. My answer: Absolutely! Lawns will actually do their best growing for the next 3 months (September, October and November). It’s the best part…