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...

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...

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...

Knowing Your Audience and Understanding Soil Differences Recently, I found myself in an online discussion about watering practices for lawns. The article someone had posted advocated for frequent and shallow watering—a method that’s pretty much the opposite of what I...

There’s an old story about a woman who always cut the ends off her ham before putting it in the oven. When asked why, she replied, “Because that’s how my mother did it.” Curious, she asked her mother. The mother shrugged and said, “That’s how my mother did it.”...

For decades, the lawn care industry has been dominated by the synthetic fertility model. Bags of chemical nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus have been sold as the answer to every yellow spot, every weed outbreak, and every patch of slow growth. But here’s the truth:...