8 Lawn Care Fallacies That Keep Us Treating Symptoms Instead of Causes

For decades, lawn care has been built around a surprisingly simple formula: See a problem. Buy a product. Kill something. Feed something. Water something. Repeat next year. But what if many of the things we consider “normal lawn maintenance” are actually symptoms of a...
Spring 2024 State of the Lawn Address

Spring 2024 State of the Lawn Address

Its 2024 and your lawn is due for an upgrade. An upgrade, what does that mean? That means that everyone has been engaged in an archaic form of lawn maintenance that has been costing them a fortune (I wrote a blog about that right...

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Weeds are NOT the Enemy

Weeds are NOT the Enemy

Oh boy, this is a fun subject with a lot of confusion. Weeds are best seen as a nutrient deficiency in the soil rather than an infestation. There I said it. Some people have the mistaken idea that weeds are a pesticide deficiency and there are companies that gladly...

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Siren Song of Synthetics

Siren Song of Synthetics

Do you want to know the secret of having a beautiful lawn that doesn't have a lot of problems? There is NO shortcut to anything that is of value but I can promise you that if you replicate what occurs in nature you will experience a higher level of lawn care that you...

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Quality of Life Matters

Quality of Life Matters

You feel the squeeze when it comes to your lawn right? The seemingly high cost of maintaining a lawn seems to be getting higher. Am I right? The weeds, the thatch, the water, not to mention all of the harmful chemicals that you apply that are creating risk for you,...

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What is the Cost of that Energy?

What is the Cost of that Energy?

I had a meeting today with the Colorado State Smart Cities Alliance. It is an organization that is adopting green technologies and automation in an attempt to this place carbon emissions and create efficiency through modern technology. This can be a pretty heated...

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No Lawn Emergencies!

No Lawn Emergencies!

Picture this: it's the middle of July, it's 95° out and your irrigation system isn't working in your lawn is getting tortured. Most people in the situation began to panic because they are under the assumption that the lawn can die suddenly, you know like by the...

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Your Lawn’s Check Engine Light

Your Lawn’s Check Engine Light

If there is one thing that I wish every lawn had that one thing would be a check engine light. You're all too familiar with this dreadful icon that pops up on your car's dashboard when something is awry with the motor. It could be something simple or it could be near...

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Know Thy Soil

Know Thy Soil

I was thinking today, after remembering a quote about the beginning of wisdom. You may be familiar with Socrates, Greek Philosopher, early 4th century BC, in the cradle of Western society invented the mindset, "Know Thyself". He also was noted for saying, "I know that...

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What You Need To Know About Water

What You Need To Know About Water

I consistently find that there is a lot of confusion about taking care of the lawn, especially when it comes to watering. For some reason it seems intuitive to water very frequently and for brief periods of time. Most people in their mind think that this equates to...

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Why Do People Oppose the Biological Lawn System?

Why Do People Oppose the Biological Lawn System?

If you’re building (or switching to) a biological soil program, you’ll eventually run into a strange phenomenon: Some people don’t just disagree with it… they resent it. Not because it “doesn’t work.” Not because they’ve tested it and found it lacking. But because the...

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