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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Yarbo….Almost Buck Rogers, Almost…

Yarbo….Almost Buck Rogers, Almost…

Just when you had given up on humanity and roving bands of kids from the 80’s, they come out with an automated robotic snow blower. That’s right, you heard me, a robotic snow blower. You have to see it to believe it but how does this grab you? It’s...
Can You Come Over And Look At My Lawn?

Can You Come Over And Look At My Lawn?

I get this question all the time, “Can you just come out and look at my lawn?” Every year someone is looking for the next silver bullet that will instantaneously solve their problems and satisfy their craving for a lawn repair fix. The reality is that...
Speed Costs Money But So Does A Bad Plan

Speed Costs Money But So Does A Bad Plan

If you were alive anytime before November 26, 2003 you could have booked a flight on the Concorde which was a supersonic commercial aircraft that began flying across the Atlantic in early 1969. For about $20,000 in today’s dollars you could fly faster than...
Bad Methods, Bad Systems

Bad Methods, Bad Systems

Take a good look at the picture above. Have you ever seen someone trying to repair concrete with duct tape? I mean they’re both really great products, don’t get me wrong but they don’t really jive together very well if you know what I mean. This is a...
Does Your Lawn Hold Value?

Does Your Lawn Hold Value?

What if I told you that 20 to 50% of the maintenance cost of your lawn was complete waste? Would you believe me? Before you answer that question, answer some of these questions to yourself: Do you find it difficult to get your lawn” up and going” at the...
Your Lawn is a Battery…CHARGE IT!

Your Lawn is a Battery…CHARGE IT!

Carbon has gotten a bad rap over the past few years. Because it is a waste product of industrialization we often forget that it is also a vital nutrient for plant life and it is a critical building block of every form of life on earth. Carbon in the context in plant...
So, You Think You Need a Bag?

So, You Think You Need a Bag?

So this is going to be a funny little post. Hopefully by the time you’re done with this article you’re going to get a little taste of history, horticulture, economics, logic and relief. This has to do with bagging your lawn. We’re going to answer...
20-50% Are You for Real?

20-50% Are You for Real?

The modern synthetic lawn is a high maintenance proposition. The reason being is that the absence of microbiology in the soil creates a system that is dependent on human intervention as there is not a relationship in the soil that would otherwise cycle nutrients into...
Are You in the Matrix?

Are You in the Matrix?

A few years ago I had something happen to me. I wish I could say that I had an epiphany but rather it was a question. I had become frustrated with the status quo about lawn care. There were many things that went unanswered and problems that were plaguing my clients...
Supercharge Redux

Supercharge Redux

This year was ground breaking for us with several new discoveries. If you have been following us you are well aware that we are engaged in a higher form of lawn care referred to as Organic Regenerative Biological Method, or Biological for short. For those who are new...
SUPERSEED, a New Way to Repair Your Lawn.

SUPERSEED, a New Way to Repair Your Lawn.

We discovered something extraordinary this year that I need to promote as it is going to revolutionize how we repair lawns and move forward to eliminate damage. We call it SUPERSEED. What you are looking at above are two pictures of the same patch of lawn that were...
Have Equity in the Soil, Have an Asset

Have Equity in the Soil, Have an Asset

People often have a misconception of the difference between a liability and an asset. I have come to understand an asset as a commodity that generates income and a liability is a possession that does not. While we will be speaking about having a lawn, and I understand...
The Thoma Enigma

The Thoma Enigma

Several years ago when we adopted our biological program I was not well-versed in all of the nuances and idiosyncrasies of how microbiology interacted with the soil in the plant root. Since then I have a much fuller understanding of how it works in the benefits of...
Plants Have Hitmen

Plants Have Hitmen

Immune systems as you and I know it do not exist in plants. They rely on a different mechanism to defend their tissues. They rely on beneficial microbes to accomplish their method of immunity against pathogenic microbes that spread disease. Almost all of the lawn...