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

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...

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I used to be a drug dealer

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 and on foreign soil...

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Social Shaming on Water, a New Low

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 meaning so I...

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“I Don’t Like That Natural Stuff”

“I Don’t Like That Natural Stuff”

I wanted to address a comment I recently received, not from a customer but from one of my own neighbors. One of my neighbors that lives down the street a few days ago stopped by while I was sprawled out on my lawn working on one of my new robotic mowers that I just...

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The Three Pronged Approach with Biological

The Three Pronged Approach with Biological

The critical difference between the synthetic and the biological approaches are that in the synthetic approach the grass plant is only receives a few of the many elements that it requires all while killing off the soil biology. In the biological method, the soil is...

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It Looks Like a Cooler Year

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...

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I used to be a drug dealer

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 and on foreign soil...

read more
Social Shaming on Water, a New Low

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 meaning so I...

read more