What is Wrong with the Lawn Care Industry (And How You Can Avoid It!)
We have a LOT working against us in the lawn care industry. People want a great looking landscape and the lawn is the cornerstone of any landscape as it is the only part of a landscape that can used for multiple functions and well a great looking lawn is so cherry....
Unabhängigkeit (Free Yourself)
Leave it to the Germans (me being one of them) to come up with really long hard to pronounce words with very simple meanings. Unabhängigkeit, is the German word for Freedom or Independence. Now you know some German (Try looking up Unabhängigkeitserklärungen, they...
A Good Fall Strategy
Right now is where people set the stage for the upcoming spring. All of the work to get the lawn hopefully into a better shape will lead to an even better one next spring IF you don't stop right now. Let me explain. Right now is when the lawn can be severely damaged...
This is what we are after…
This is what we are after, a beautiful, healthy, resilient lawn that you can enjoy. That uses water efficiently (less), eliminates toxic chemicals, greens up earlier (without help) and stays greener longer into the winter (doesn't turn brown). OK, that sounds great...
Don’t Do That! Proceed at your Own Peril!
I was driving around today and I saw something I didn't want to see, a truck towing an air compressor. The air compressor was for blowing out irrigation lines. I am hoping that it was just for show. With it being 95² last week, there is no hard freeze in sight. More...
The Case for Automation (Robotic Mowing)
Change is certainly in the air. Modern technology such as AI & 4G connectivity, coupled with battery capability and older technologies such as GPS and well, uh, mechanical mower have brought us robotic mowing. But why have you never heard of a near 30-year-old...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Do you feel like having a great looking lawn is futile? Do you feel like It is just too expensive? You are not alone. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. See it? No it is not that light. That is a train wreck waiting to happen. OK, maybe the train/tunnel...
Let’s Talk about Thatch
Thatch, that grossly misunderstood part of your lawn that causes so many issues that is supposed to be there but not really, let's dig in. Thatch simply defined is the dead root growth of the lawn. It is normal to have in a bluegrass lawn but is often overgrown...
A Cry for Help
In 2017 I hit a wall, so to speak. We had been operating under a system that was status quo and while I was able to excel under this paradigm, it was problematic as I could never seemingly really fix the problems that we were having and seeing in our customer's lawns....
An Open Letter to Anyone Who’s Ever Felt Stuck Renting Their Lawn
For nearly two decades, I did what everyone else in this industry does. I ran routes. I pushed gas mowers. I applied fertilizers the way I was taught. I adjusted irrigation and hoped for the best. And for a long time, I accepted that this was just “how lawn care...
Understanding Humus
When plants and roots die (or drop leaves), tiny soil workers (microbes) eat that stuff. After lots of eating and re-eating, what’s left becomes a dark material called humus. Humus is the part that doesn’t rot fast anymore. It sticks around a long time, helping soil...
THE LAWN YOU ACTUALLY WANTED (WITHOUT THE WEEKLY MOWING CIRCUS)
Gas mowing is dying. Not because it can’t cut grass… but because it’s an expensive, loud, inefficient relic that keeps getting more costly to operate. Robotic mowing is the opposite: quiet, consistent, ultra-efficient—and it finally fixes the biggest flaw in modern...