Xeriscaping in Northern New England
Living in the Northeast I never thought I would consider adding xeriscaping (pronounced zera-scaping) to my landscape design repertoire. Whatever…
Your Life Outside
Lawn Winterizer application
Generally speaking, a winterizer lawn application is one of the final, if not the last lawn treatment that will go down…
Salt or Ice Melt?
There are dozens upon dozens of ice melt products on the market. Each will likely be a blend of salts…
NH Better Business Bureau (BBB) and your lawn?
The NH office of the Better Business Bureau is located in Concord at the following website: http://concord.bbb.org/ The BBB allows consumers…
Review your lawn contract
Did your doctor ever tell you to get a second opinion? Hundreds of commercial lawn care contracts will be mailed…
Lawn Pesticides
I normally don’t write on the topic of lawn pesticides because it is so vast, involves emotions, has supporting scientific data on both sides, and…
Milky Spore and White Grubs
According to a 2008 University of New Hampshire publication on Milky Spore disease, there are more reasons NOT to use this…
Snow Mold prevention in your lawn
While snow mold disease may be annoying, it can also kill turf dead under the right conditions. Snow mold prevention…
Fall lawn seeding
Fall is a superior time to establish an entirely new lawn or to simply fix a dead patch. Both projects…
Crabgrass is the enemy
The villain is clearly crabgrass. This villain moves into your yard without any notice or invitation. It germinates in cracks, near your mailbox, along…
Fall Seeding replaces crabgrass
A very common question I hear is, “When is the best time to seed your lawn?” My answer is usually…
Brown lawn? Look to aerate this fall.
Core aeration is a mechanical process that extracts cores of soil, thatch and grass from the surface of the lawn. …
Give Your Lawn a Banana – Potassium
I don’t literally mean give your lawn a banana, but in the sense of what potassium (K) provides, the analogy…
