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...

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...

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...

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 normally dry...

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...

The benefits and results of a biological lawn are well documented as well as their costs as compared to a synthetic lawn.

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.

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

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 lawn...

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...

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...

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...