What to do with Leaves in the Fall

Fall is upon us, and if you have any trees in your yard, you’ll notice that they are slowly turning color and dropping onto your lawn. Some might think that this is a bad thing, but it doesn’t have to be. There are many uses for all those leaves that accumulate in your yard every fall. Here are some ideas on how to use them.

Mow Them into Your Yard

This is the simplest and easiest way to use leaves. Trees pull nutrients from the soil to make the leaves in the spring and summer, and normally, they will fall next to the tree’s trunk and start to decompose, recycling those nutrients. So if you rake and bag the leaves every fall, then cart them off to the landfill, it will slowly drain the soil of the components needed to keep your trees healthy.

Instead, just use your mower to chop them up into small pieces. These will settle in between the

How to Successfully Plant Grass Plugs

Have you noticed a few bare patches in your yard? Don’t despair if you have! Your lawn can easily be repaired, and soon it will be looking as good as new. What’s the simple solution? Grass plugs. By planting grass plugs in those bare or unsightly areas, you can easily and inexpensively have a great-looking yard again.

What Is a Grass Plug?

A grass plug is a small piece of turf that was grown specifically to help fill holes in your yard. They are usually 2-3 inches in diameter, and once they are established, they will grow out until the hole is filled in.

What Should You Do Before Planting Grass Plugs?

Like most things in life, the majority of the work when it comes to grass plugs comes in the form of preparation. In fact, there is more preparation for plugging your lawn than most people think. Additionally, if you

While landscaping isn’t the most important thing you can do to enhance your home’s value, it can surely help someone who is already interested to place an offer, and all things considered, might be the point that gets them to make you an offer on your home instead of someone else.

You wouldn't put your home on the market if plumbing needed work or rooms needed to be painted, and the same goes for your landscaping. Your yard is the first thing that people will notice, so you need to put your best trees and scrubs forward.

Plant a Tree

Trees can do a lot for your home's curb appeal. If the buyer doesn’t like the color of a room or the carpeting, that is easy to change, but you can’t just drop a 30-year-old oak tree in the front yard to provide instant shade, so you need to think long-term as you are considering adding trees to your landscape.

Look for trees that grow well in your

With winter approaching, get ready to pull out your sweaters and apple cider scented candles. It’s that time of year when you can look forward to snowy mornings on the porch and building snowmen. 

But, before you can enjoy all that winter has to offer, you want to ensure your lawn is ready-to-go.

Preparing Your Yard For Cold Weather

After winter ends, you want your lawn ready and receptive for fresh grass and a fertile garden. But in order for your lawn to be receptive in spring, there are a few things to prepare for.

• Remove debris

Removing fallen leaves and branches from y

Summer is in full swing--which means that all of your plants are growing like weeds. Your weeds are also probably growing like weeds, too--but that’s for another article. 

With so much growth, you’ve likely noticed your hedges looking a little unkempt, even scraggly. While this rapid growth can look messy, it also makes summer the ideal time to reshape your hedges and perform major pruning.

So, how can you help your hedges shape up? With a good trimming. So, get ready to give your hedges, shrubs, and small trees a healthy trim. 

Here are our top 5 tips for keeping your hedges healthy and looking their best with a trim:

Visualize the End Result Before You Beg

There are few things that will put a damper on your summer, like a waterlogged lawn. When your garden beds are soggy and you wind up ankles-deep in mud, it can be difficult to enjoy the beauty of your yard. 

Luckily, you can improve the drainage of your lawn on your own. If you want to dry out your mosquito larvae nursery and step into your grass with confidence, we have the information you need.

Why You Don’t Want a Waterlogged Lawn

When your yard turns into a lake, the excessive water can do serious damage. Sitting water fills in the open spaces in the ground where roots pull in oxygen. Without oxygen, your grass and garden plants begin to suffocate below the surface.

Too much water also causes your plants to develop a shallower root s

If you have ever looked into the idea of organic lawn care, or perhaps this summer finally moved into a home of your own and now the lawn care is all up to you, fall is the best time to transition into an organic natural lawn.

As winter creeps up on the northern states there are a few lawn care tricks that will help bring you a luscious lawn in the next spring. Many of our lawns are finally recovering from the summer stresses of drought, heat, and overuse by the kids playing all summer long.

This is an important time to add some vital nutrients to your grass so it can push through winter. This is crucial to the development of grasses underground roots and rhizomes. At this point in the year, grass will start to store carbohydrates. These carbohydrates will act as an antifreeze into the winter as well as give the grass some nutrition to get into the next spring and flourish.

Lawns that have