Every summer, it happens. Your lawn looks great in May. By July, crabgrass has moved in like it owns the place — thick, flat, sprawling patches that spread faster than you can pull them. By August, you are standing in your yard wondering what went wrong and whether you should just pave the whole thing … Read more
As the seasons change and the grass begins to grow, using Prodiamine 65 WDG as a pre-emergent herbicide is a popular choice for maintaining a healthy lawn and garden. Key Points: It helps keep those pesky weeds at bay, leaving your lawn and garden to flourish and create beautiful greenery around your home. But like … Read more
A green lawn is a good sign that everything is growing well, and with the exception of dormant periods should be the main color of our turf. Key Points: Explosions of other colors, like blues, can indicate weeds or flowers popping up, and yellow or brown out of season may show stress, but overall your … Read more
Acids can be helpful in lawn and home care, but like many products, they can also be dangerous, both to human and plant life. Some strong chemicals like hydrochloric acid can lead to terrible chemical burns and are only suitable to be used in controlled professional environments will the proper safety gear or strong acids … Read more
In recent years there has been a surge of advancements in electric lawn and garden equipment that has produced battery or outlet-powered machines that run superior or on par with traditional fuel-driven machines. Almost entirely gone are the days when lawn maintenance requires you to carry a bottle with gasoline inside to top off your … Read more
Killing weeds is a great American pastime and something everyone has an opinion about, and most, a nifty trick or two. Older people will have tricks and techniques that, while once upon a time were common practice, may not be such a good idea anymore. When it comes to which herbicides to use in our … Read more
If a green lawn is your goal, then little orange mushrooms popping up all over is probably not ideal. After spending all spring mowing and clearing grass clippings and yard trimmings, and summer removing dandelions and other colorful weeds, it can be perturbing to look out in autumn and see a flush of orange mushrooms … Read more
Crossbow is a powerful herbicide that can handle a range of weeds in pastures and lawns. While typically applied at a large scale for commercial properties, there are spot application formulas that can be used on small residential turfs. With several active ingredients, it can wipe out a range of grassy weeds. This weed killer … Read more
While a healthy lawn can fight off most weeds, there are some particularly aggressive annual weeds that spring up early and race to get more ground than your own lawn’s turf. Whenever my warm-season grasses are slow to grow or where bare spots have appeared in cool-season yards, the hairy bittercress weed can pop up … Read more
Quack grass is also known as common couch grass and can be a bane to many lawn owners who have issues with warm-season weeds. A patch of this grassy weed can choke out desirable grass, pop up in flower beds, and even take over the entire lawn. An invasive weed with upright grass blades that … Read more
Getting rid of weeds in your lawn can always be a tricky business. There are so many factors to consider when choosing the active ingredient for an herbicide. Systemic herbicides can be effective on broadleaf plants yet will not always affect aquatic weeds. For complete control of all weeds, there are options like round-up that … Read more
Crabgrass is an invasive annual that can overpower and choke out a stressed turf. A single crabgrass plant can drop thousands of crabgrass seeds, and when the soil temperatures rise in the spring, they can take off and out-compete damaged lawn grasses. As an annual weed, a mature crabgrass plant will die after dropping thousands … Read more
Creeping ground covers can be a great addition to a lawn and garden, but if left unchecked, most will escape their areas. Creeping Charlie, also known as ground Ivy is a common sight in landscapes across the US. Originally brought here by European settlers, this unencumbered plant has become an invasive weed in several States. … Read more
Using a pre-emergent is one of the best ways to keep your lawn free of annual weeds all year long. But not any just herbicides will work, and there are only certain times each year that zoysia grass has to deal with weeds. A few weeds aren’t the same as absolutely no weeds, and the … Read more
With winter fast approaching, many of us are frantically trying to get through our long lists of fall projects. We’re wrapping up various projects from the warmer seasons and preparing our homes for the upcoming cold. On the list, many of us have something along the lines of “fertilize the lawn.” Many experts recommend fertilizing … Read more
