6 BIG Motivations for Automation
As we transition away from gas powered equipment into battery powered lawn equipment we need to be aware of the lateral step sideways to battery powered traditional equipment and automated assets that enable you to leverage your time. One path is a major investment...
Synergy
Synergy defined is the benefit of one or more things working together to achieve a greater outcome than would be experienced if they were not. I have learned a lot over the past 5 years and I have concluded that the practice of turf management by large is being...
Are We Preserving Jobs Or Are We Protecting Inefficiency?
Technology is constantly changing, improving and being adapted to better the human experience to make our lives more productive. Ironically, humans typically are resistant to change as it can challenge our comfort, our routine and our order in life. The initial...
Why no plugs?
It is vital that air, water and nutrients have an easy path to get to the roots and that roots have an easy time moving through the soil to obtain these assets and grow. For most people this is achieved by mechanical means which is core aeration. Core aeration is...
How Much of that Water Are You Keeping?
So, it’s been raining a LOT this year in Colorado, enough to force the water authorities to pipe down for a while. It’s pretty hard to preach drought when you are getting a years worth of rain in 6 weeks. The water is still flowing in streams that are...
Operation September
Every year I see people fall into the same tar trap. It is short term thinking and lack of follow through at it’s best, let me elaborate. People turn off their irrigation around mid October because their irrigation system will freeze this time of year (we have a...
Your Lawn is NOT a Chia Pet
The benefits and results of a biological lawn are well documented as well as their costs as compared to a synthetic lawn.
Cracks in the Business Model are Revealed During Severe Weather aka How to Escape the Gas Mower Paradigm
Well, I’m not going to spend the time to figure out the transportation problem but I have figured out the problem as it pertains to the lawn maintenance business and that solution is AUTOMATION.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So, it’s going to be a wet year…a.k.a. everything you will need to know about water this year
It’s been raining a lot lately. I think I am pushing over 8 inches at my house this month already. This will have implications moving forward. The immediate good news is that we get a lot of free water, devoid of chlorine and full of nitrogen (when it is...
The ABC’s of the Biological Method (What you need to know about how you are getting screwed by your lawn)
I continuously seek ways to help people understand the Biological method. Doing so, I would like to break this down a little bit more, so listen up! Unlike a Synthetic fertility program that only provides inorganic nutrients, Our Regenerative Biological Fertility...
“I Don’t Like That Natural Stuff”
I wanted to address a comment I recently received, not from a customer but from one of my own neighbors. One of my neighbors that lives down the street a few days ago stopped by while I was sprawled out on my lawn working on one of my new robotic mowers that I just...
If You Want To Destroy a Lawn and Spend a LOT of Money Doing It, Do This…
If you want a really hard time with your lawn, be sure to do the following. No, you probably will not experience total failure but you will set your lawn up for a lot of stress with areas that will give you problems along the way. Most of your defeat will come in the...
The Three Pronged Approach with Biological
The critical difference between the synthetic and the biological approaches are that in the synthetic approach the grass plant is only receives a few of the many elements that it requires all while killing off the soil biology. In the biological method, the soil is...
Avoid lawn dehydration this spring, now you have an option!
This month you have a choice whether or not you want to face a dehydrated soil before the growing season. This causes a lot of problems and is completely avoidable. We have a solution for the dilemma of irrigation automation in early spring without incurring...
2023 and Lawn Automation
2023 will be a remarkable year for lawn automation. The rise of lawn robot automation will fill the need for labor and help keep the price tag of maintaining a lawn lower. The current labor shortage can also be solved by mitigating this problem with automation. The...
The “Formula” of what you are Losing C+W(30%)+A+P=T
I have been doing a lot of research lately that explains and proves the reality of using synthetics and the benefits of using a biological system of fertility. I have created a formula that will help to explain this and quantify what you are spending when you are...