Supercharge Redux
This year was ground breaking for us with several new discoveries. If you have been following us you are well aware that we are engaged in a higher form of lawn care referred to as Organic Regenerative Biological Method, or Biological for short. For those who are new...
SUPERSEED, a New Way to Repair Your Lawn.
We discovered something extraordinary this year that I need to promote as it is going to revolutionize how we repair lawns and move forward to eliminate damage. We call it SUPERSEED. What you are looking at above are two pictures of the same patch of lawn that were...
Have Equity in the Soil, Have an Asset
People often have a misconception of the difference between a liability and an asset. I have come to understand an asset as a commodity that generates income and a liability is a possession that does not. While we will be speaking about having a lawn, and I understand...
The Thoma Enigma
Several years ago when we adopted our biological program I was not well-versed in all of the nuances and idiosyncrasies of how microbiology interacted with the soil in the plant root. Since then I have a much fuller understanding of how it works in the benefits of...
Questioning the Modern Means of Taking Care of the Lawn
Have you ever asked yourself why you have to expend so much water, so much fertilizer, so much herbicides and fungicides? I see a lot of people getting frustrated with their lawns, with their lawn service, with their water bill and the whole process. As a matter of...
Plants Have Hitmen
Immune systems as you and I know it do not exist in plants. They rely on a different mechanism to defend their tissues. They rely on beneficial microbes to accomplish their method of immunity against pathogenic microbes that spread disease. Almost all of the lawn...
Guerilla Lawncare aka Robotic Mowing
One of the most effective military tactics in history is Guerilla Warfare. This asymmetrical style of combat allows a smaller force to engage, harass, disrupt, confuse, wear down and defeat a stronger military unit. It is characterized by unconventional soldiers that...
Water With A Purpose
It was about 65° out today in Colorado Springs today, awesome weather, I wish it would stay like this all year long. Personally I find it very pleasurable. I want to bring attention to a cycle that I have been able to identify and articulate recently. This is the...
6 BIG Motivations for Automation
As we transition away from gas powered equipment into battery powered lawn equipment we need to be aware of the lateral step sideways to battery powered traditional equipment and automated assets that enable you to leverage your time. One path is a major investment...
Synergy
Synergy defined is the benefit of one or more things working together to achieve a greater outcome than would be experienced if they were not. I have learned a lot over the past 5 years and I have concluded that the practice of turf management by large is being...
Are We Preserving Jobs Or Are We Protecting Inefficiency?
Technology is constantly changing, improving and being adapted to better the human experience to make our lives more productive. Ironically, humans typically are resistant to change as it can challenge our comfort, our routine and our order in life. The initial...
Why no plugs?
It is vital that air, water and nutrients have an easy path to get to the roots and that roots have an easy time moving through the soil to obtain these assets and grow. For most people this is achieved by mechanical means which is core aeration. Core aeration is...
How Much of that Water Are You Keeping?
So, it’s been raining a LOT this year in Colorado, enough to force the water authorities to pipe down for a while. It’s pretty hard to preach drought when you are getting a years worth of rain in 6 weeks. The water is still flowing in streams that are...
Operation September
Every year I see people fall into the same tar trap. It is short term thinking and lack of follow through at it’s best, let me elaborate. People turn off their irrigation around mid October because their irrigation system will freeze this time of year (we have a...
Your Lawn is NOT a Chia Pet
The benefits and results of a biological lawn are well documented as well as their costs as compared to a synthetic lawn.
Cracks in the Business Model are Revealed During Severe Weather aka How to Escape the Gas Mower Paradigm
Well, I’m not going to spend the time to figure out the transportation problem but I have figured out the problem as it pertains to the lawn maintenance business and that solution is AUTOMATION.
When are you going to get here?
One thing that I noticed during the recent storms was that we did not receive one single call from our customers who had robotic mowers. You know why? It is because the mowers
Momentum of the Soil
If you have been reading my blogs you will sense an undertow of frustration. That frustration is the result of the self destructive cycle that most lawns are on. Let me paint a picture. You wake up one day in late April and decide that it is “time to get the...
3% Organic Matter and Overseeding
We have been discussing the roller coaster ride that most people are on, hurry up and green the lawn up, spend a lot on water, suffer summer heat, exhaustion, blowing out the irrigation, suffering winter kill and beginning the entire process all over again the...
It Looks Like a Cooler Year
I have a picture of my lawn last year that I took on April 1st. It was solid green, an effect of the biology in my soil. I have another picture that I too this year on the same day. It took more than a week for the lawn to get to the same color where it was last...
I used to be a drug dealer
“Hey Brian, this sounds a little out of character of you”, I’m sure I will hear. Hold on until I finish the rest of the story because there is more to it. I’m actually an All-American kid, played football, Eagle Scout, served in the Air Force...
Social Shaming on Water, a New Low
I’m sure that you have seen it recently, the articles in the media encouraging neighbors to rat on their neighbors for wasting water. I hate to use the word rat as they are pretty cool animals, so I will not depict them in a negative light but you get the...