Patience, we need that right now if you are itching to be working on your lawn or landscape. It is the middle of winter, a few projects can be down, but not many. So we have to wait until spring, that can require patience. Patience, it can be challenging to have, but it is needed when working on a lawn or landscape. Many tasks within a lawn or landscape are…
Read More2014 Growing Season Wrap Up
The 2014 growing season has come to an end. The spring came and went, summer is over, and the leaves have fallen, or at least most of them. The 2014 growing season was a good year for the lawn and landscape. The year was fairly wet, but never too much at one single time. However, the snow came fairly early, leaving a lot of the leaves on the trees and…
Read MoreFall Mowing Height
Have you ever thought about the height that you mow your lawn in the fall? The typical thinking for your lawn’s fall mowing height has been short, or at least shorter than during the summer. Have you ever thought of why you are mowing at that height during the fall? The old line of thought as to why to lower the height that you mow your grass in the fall…
Read MoreWhy Clean Up Leaves?
Why clean up leaves? This may being going through some minds as we start to approach the leaf clean up season. Why even bother? What are the leaves on the lawn going to hurt? The leaves are going to hurt the lawn by killing it. Not on a chemical level, but the leaves will shade out the grass, starving the grass of the sunlight that it needs to grow, and…
Read MoreDormant Warm Season Grass
Maybe you have noticed that the grass is starting to slow down. However, you may have also noticed that some grass is starting to go dormant. The grass starting to go dormant already are the warm season grasses that have established in this area. We typically have cool season grasses in Michigan. Kentucky Bluegrass, Perennial Ryegrass, and Fine Fescue are all cool season grasses that are perfectly suited for this…
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