Water Plants

It is time to water plants in your yard.  Since eastern Iowa has not seen significant rain fall in several months, there is a lot of plant material feeling the brunt of the drought.  New plant material installed with in the past five years will suffer quite a bit if...

Summer Lawn Fertilizing

We are now preforming our summer lawn fertilizing in eastern Iowa.  Some of our customers have expressed concerns about fertilizing during the drought.  During this time, you can either increase the quality of the turf or further decrease it.  We use stabilized...

Grass Seeding Part 2

Since grass seeding should be done in the spring or fall, hold off on your summer planting plans.  If you plant seed now, you risk having your efforts go to waste.  Not only will your new seed require quite a bit of watering, but your germination rate for summer...

New Lawn Seeding Part 1

New lawn seeding will work best if it is done in the spring or fall.  If you live in eastern Iowa, you finally saw some rain last night.  Though the amount of rain was an insignificant amount, it was still better than nothing.  Since we have not seen much rain in the...

Lawn Thatch

If you have turf grass, you have lawn thatch.  Most people don’t know what lawn thatch is or the pro’s and con’s of the material.  To properly understand how thatch can work for your lawn or against it, you must first understand how it forms.  Lawn...

Properly Identify Weeds

Properly identify weeds in your lawn so that you can treat them with the right product.  Weeds in your lawn can be broken down into three categories, grasses, broadleaf and sedges.  In order to treat the infestation in your lawn, you must properly identify...