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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…

How to stop Crabgrass from spreading

Jump To: Tip For How To Remove Crabgrass Effectively, How To Get Rid Of Crabgrass Video, Contact Us, Other Lawn Care Tips Steps On How To Stop Crabgrass From Spreading In Your Yard The most important thing to do right…

How Short to Cut Grass Before Winter?

Jump To: How Short To Cut Your Grass Before Winter, Contact Us, Other Lawn Care Tips 3 Steps to Winterizing Your Lawn Tools needed: leaf rake, lawn mower with a sharp blade Cut grass the optimal length before winter. The…

Take Action Against Weeds: What you can do to reduce weeds on your lawn.

Jump To: Steps For Managing Weeds Effectively, Contact Us, Other Lawn Care Tips The Province of Ontario has banned chemical pest control and while the new organic alternatives are very effective, they do not provide the immediate results of the…

Earth Day prelude- Learn Professional lawn care tips at St.James Park in Toronto

MEDIA RELEASE April 17, 2012 Volunteers return to St. James Park Event will demonstrate turf maintenance is simple and fun TORONTO, Ont. — Last December, over 150 green industry professionals volunteered and donated new sod, soil, mulch and labour valued…

Get a head start on a healthy lawn this fall!

People take great pride in having a beautiful lawn, and so they should! Nothing has more impact on the health of a lawn than the care the homeowner gives it. Yet many people ask ‘How do I take care of…

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…

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…