The Heat Didn’t Ruin Your Lawn — It Exposed It

When a lawn suddenly fills with weeds, thins out, loses color or begins struggling during a hot summer, the natural reaction is usually pretty simple: “What happened to my lawn?” And the next reaction is often: “What do I need to put on it?” More fertilizer? More weed...
When are you going to get here?

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

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Momentum of the Soil

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 lawn...

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3% Organic Matter and Overseeding

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...

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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...

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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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