Fall Best Time To Control Dandelions
Can you still remember the dandelions in your lawn last May? Did you spray them, or dig them, or just wish they weren’t there? If you are average, you have probably often thought that dandelions and other lawn weeds are plants without... Read More...
Artificial Grass A Southern California Landscaping Option
Question: I’ve been looking at artificial grass to replace my natural grass in our landscape. I live in southern California where water use and restrictions are an ongoing battle and I’ve noticed others buying synthetic grass. What... Read More...
10 Tips on Lawn Mower Prep for Winter
Avoiding trouble before it starts - that’s exactly what you are doing when you take a few extra minutes this fall to prepare your mower or tractor engine for its winter lay-up. Idleness can sometimes cause more damage to an engine than... Read More...
Your Valuable Leaf Crop - Don’t Waste the Fertilizer Value
Both home gardeners and commercial growers are bothered and blessed by the problem of what to do with leaves, vegetable waste and crop residues. Rightly handled, this material is not an unwanted waste but a valuable byproduct. Right at the... Read More...
The Serious Lawn Amateur Speaks Up
Lawn grass is made up of an assortment of perennial grasses most of which are extremely winter hardy and cold loving. An established lawn of almost any regular high-grade grasses comes out of the coldest winter early and unscathed. Troubles... Read More...
Grow Your Own Pansies
The Pansy is of easy culture, blossoms profusely for months, and may be had in many colors from delicate pastel shades to rich, dark tones, some solid colors, others blotched, penciled or veined. There are varieties so ruffled that they appear... Read More...
Better Lawns are Autumn Sponsored
Crisp blue skies and coloring sumac spell many things… the heady aroma of evening outdoor fire pit, football around the corner, and glorious less encumbered weekends to putter outdoors. For the Midwest, gardening mostly under a continental... Read More...
Shopping for Sprinklers?
When the drought months hit that is the time most of us think about regularly watering our lawns, landscapes and gardens, or perhaps the time we begin hastily shopping for a sprinkler to move around the yard if we do not have an installed irrigation... Read More...
Cool Climate Grasses to Plant Now
Fall is the best time to plant a new lawn in the cool sections of the United States. Here are some cool-climate grasses Cool-Climate Grasses are the types most suitable for use in the northern sections of the country, including the northeastern,... Read More...
Weeding Killing Crabgrass
No other field of agricultural research has received more interest and attention since the end of World War II than chemical weed control. Starting with the development of 2,4-D in 1945 for the control of broad-leaved weeds, the tremendous... Read More...
