Expert Lawn Mowing Tips and Lawn Care Insights
Should I Rake Leaves or Just Leave Them?
If you live in North Texas, you'll likely have to deal with leaves littering your lawn during the fall season. As a homeowner, you may get frustrated at the ongoing leaf raking and removal during the transitional season as part of fall lawn maintenance. You may ask...
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...
Planting Winter Rye? Please check with your City
As winter slowly rolls in we get calls about planting winter rye. This is something that should be evaluated with your expectations in relation to your City”s restrictions on watering requirements to get winter grasses established nicely. Below are some excerpts from...
How to Lime Your Lawn in Texas
Lawn liming is a hot topic here in the Lone Star State. So, when should you lime a lawn in Texas? Few things can make a lawn look as green, lush, or vibrant as liming.However, homeowners often feel unsure about how to handle liming. Take a look at where liming should...
How to Implement Organic Lawn Care in your Landscaping
There's something beautiful about bringing your lawn back to nature. That's why organic lawn care is such a popular option. What is organic lawn care? Organic lawn care refers to maintaining your lawn using organic materials and techniques. The best part about working...
What to Do if Your Lawn is Overrun With Weeds
You may be asking yourself “why do I have so many weeds?” Well, there’s a lot that goes into the “why” part of that question. Therefore, it’s best to figure out the cause of your weeds before you can find the solution. Let’s go through some of the reasons why your...
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...
The Ultimate Guide to Sharpen Lawn Mower Blades
If your lawn mower seems more sluggish when you are lawn mowing, or the cuts seem uneven, then it may be time to sharpen your lawn mower blades. Many people panic when they realize that lawn mower blade-sharpening is necessary when you own a lawn mower. Fortunately,...
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...
Dull Vs. Sharp Blades for Mowing Your Lawn
Mowing your lawn isn’t as simple as just dragging your mower across the yard. There is a distinct difference in how a lawn looks when cut with a sharp lawnmower blade versus how it looks when it is shredded by a dull lawnmower blade. A sharp blade makes the lawn look...
