Top Ways to Use Old Grass Clippings

Top Ways to Use Old Grass Clippings

If every time you mow you are bagging up the clippings and setting them out for the trash, you are missing out on some wonderful opportunities to be green, recycle and reuse. In fact, many areas refuse to pick up yard waste, so reusing grass clippings is almost a...
Everything You Need to Know About Compost

Everything You Need to Know About Compost

If you are like many people, you have heard about composting and you know it is a good recycling kind of thing, but that is where your knowledge ends. The basic definition of compost is, the decayed organic material used as a plant fertilizer. But how do you compost...
Understanding What Low pH Can Do To Your Lawn

Understanding What Low pH Can Do To Your Lawn

For those of us who avoided chemistry in high school, pH levels may be a mystery.  pH is a figure which expresses the acidity or alkalinity of a solution on a scale.  If you own a pool, you have a basic understanding because those little colored testing sticks tell...
How to Prevent Frost Damage on Your Lawn This Winter

How to Prevent Frost Damage on Your Lawn This Winter

Frost damage on your lawn is one of the major downsides of a cold autumn or winter morning. Everything, even individual blades of grass, glisten with magical, silvery ice.  But frost is not magical for your winter lawn. In fact, it can be risky to your landscaping...
Everything You Need to Know About Lawn Striping

Everything You Need to Know About Lawn Striping

Don’t you just love to look at the lawn striping in professional baseball stadiums?  It’s so green and lush. Checkerboards, an arch, curves, waves, a crown, a flag, diagonals and a mix of directional grass-art have overtaken the fields of MLB stadiums.  It is...
How to Effectively Winterize your Garden This Fall

How to Effectively Winterize your Garden This Fall

Winterize your lawn during the fall and utilize excellent lawn care practices that prepare your plants for the cold weather of winter. Whether you live in an area that is predominately cold during the winter months or have occasional blasts of icy air, you will need...