I hope that you will read this as it may save you a ton of money in the future but that is your call. I have come a long way in the past year in understanding the elements of the soil and how they affect the turf and ultimately how it affects your pocket book. I used...

Watering in Colorado Springs can be a challenge as we live in a high plains desert. We receive on average approximately 17” inches of precipitation per year, a far cry from the 40” to 50” necessary to grow some of the things we want to thrive,...

Return of the Carbon Brigade (and the Oxygen Airlift) In the first dispatch from the Front Range lawn battlefield, we established a few hard truths: The soil here is not “challenging.” It’s actively hostile. After 120+ soil reports in the last five years, the pattern...

A lighthearted field report from the battle of “Why does my grass hate me?” If you’ve ever stared at your lawn and thought, “I water it, I feed it, I compliment it… why is it still acting like a moody teenager?” — congratulations. You live where the soil is basically...

There’s a difference between someone who uses synthetics… and someone who worships them. Most people aren’t villains. They’re busy. They inherited a method. They’ve been told the same script for years: “Put this down, spray that, water like crazy, repeat forever.” If...