by Brian Beck | Jan 9, 2023 | General Information
Are you tired of dealing with corporate America strong arming you in your lawn? We hear the complaints all the time. My question is why do you keep doing it? Having a great looking lawn shouldn’t be intrusive, high pressure or a weekly ordeal dealing with...
by Brian Beck | Jan 8, 2023 | General Information
Welcome to 2023, a new year and a fresh opportunity to make changes and drive innovation and improvement. We are certainly excited to enter this year with a more developed program with lessons learned from last year and the implementation of new technologies that will...
by Brian Beck | Jan 2, 2023 | General Information
As you can see from the picture that is attached, we are not doing bad but we have a far way to go with the snowpack. This snowpack in the mountains is where we on the front range get our water. It is still a little dry in El Paso County but the recent snowfall is...
by Brian Beck | Jan 1, 2023 | General Information
2023 is here! I hope that 2022 was a good year for you. 2023 holds some very exciting opportunities for us as we expand our soil regenerative and our robotic mowing programs. The last few years were a learning experience for us and we have finally found the missing...
by Brian Beck | Dec 30, 2022 | General Information
Can I go out on a limb and say that customer service these days sucks? How often have you went somewhere only to get received by someone who really didn’t want to help you? They were rude, unengaged, dismissive or maybe even rude? This now seems to be the norm...
by Brian Beck | Dec 27, 2022 | General Information
Having a great looking lawn sometimes seems lucky, exasperating or futile. It doesn’t have to be like this. You need to get to know your lawn better, particularly your soil. Once you learn the value of carbon, microbiology, pH, photosynthesis, porosity and CEC...
by Brian Beck | Dec 26, 2022 | General Information
Have you ever asked yourself, “Why does my lawn suck?” This is a common question as we face so many problems along the Front Range. Good news, we have the answer to your question! If you take away anything from us, take away this- Your soil is causing most...
by Brian Beck | Dec 22, 2022 | General Information
There is a war going on for the soul of your lawn. Sound a bit dramatic? Listen up then. Global restrictions on Fertilizer, China has halted Phosphate fertilizers so they can produce rice, Russia has had disruptions getting Potash out because of the conflict in...
by Brian Beck | Dec 20, 2022 | General Information
Ok, I’m not here to tell you what to do, but, there is that but word which means there is a condition, but wait there’s more. Listen and dwell on this for a while; if you want a healthy lawn that not just looks good but is near self sustaining and...
by Brian Beck | Dec 19, 2022 | General Information
Every year we go through the same roller coaster. We witness our customers try to overcome great stress in the spring, play catchup with resources to try to mitigate this stress, discover that what has been tried was unsuccessful and repair and the ensuing repair and...
by Brian Beck | Dec 16, 2022 | General Information
If you want to spare yourself a ton of grief read on. A few years ago we had a catastrophe happen with one of our customers. Almost everything that could go wrong a lawn did. It wasn’t necessarily anything that we were doing, it was more about what we were not...
by Brian Beck | Dec 14, 2022 | General Information
One of the biggest problems the landscaping industry faces is how it is run. The model for maintenance relies on outdated technologies, practices, techniques and operational and productivity related habits. This model is about to change as change is sorely needed....
by Brian Beck | Dec 13, 2022 | General Information
So, we are in the “off” season. The irrigation has been shut off and whatever state the lawn was left in way back in September will set the stage for next spring as photosynthesis has ceased. One thing for most people that has also stopped is the watering...
by Brian Beck | Dec 10, 2022 | General Information
In a previous blog https://www.springslawns.com/september-is-important/ I mentioned that September is the MOST important month out of the entire year as it sets the stage for the next spring. The reason for this is because the next month, October is typically the...
by Brian Beck | Dec 7, 2022 | General Information
Have you ever bought something like a tool or a kitchen appliance or something of the like that you were going to use to get something else done? You had a choice to get something that you know was a quality product but you bought the cheaper one because it was crazy...
by Brian Beck | Dec 4, 2022 | General Information
In 1983 the band Def Leppard released their album Pyromania. The First track on the LP (you know vinyl) was Rock Rock (Till you drop). This music typified what I was listening to in the 80’s. This has absolutely nothing to do with a landscape but I can segway...
by Brian Beck | Dec 4, 2022 | General Information
In our journey towards a better method of making lawns look awesome we have identified some keys points that are inherent with our system and what they do for our customers. These discoveries are based on the premises of these factors: We have poor soils that are...
by Brian Beck | Nov 25, 2022 | General Information
One of the biggest challenges we face here on the Front Range is the routine failure to water during the winter. The cold weather throws people off into thinking that the landscapes don’t need water during the periods of the year when things are not growing but...
by Brian Beck | Nov 19, 2022 | General Information
J. Paul Getty, America’s first billionaire was quoted as saying, “Observe the masses and do the opposite”. He was referring to conventional wisdom and how it can be a distraction from the truth. What makes its deceiving is that the masses are all...
by Brian Beck | Nov 16, 2022 | General Information
As you might have picked up from our blogs, we went to a biological system this year dropping the synthetic model. After much struggle through the years, hanging on has paid off The soils are better, the grass is looking better and our customers are happier. Biology...
by Brian Beck | Nov 10, 2022 | General Information
If you have been following, we are trying to build a community here to help people out of a lawn rut that they have been engaged with, exiting an old system and adopting a new one. This new system is the biological one. We are teaching our customers how to reestablish...
by Brian Beck | Nov 4, 2022 | General Information
We are close to perfecting the process of having the ultimate lawn. It involves Biology, True Irrigation Automation and Automated Robotic Mowing. These are the forces that are going to take out the stress and hardship of maintaining a lawn. In the past people had to...
by Brian Beck | Nov 1, 2022 | General Information
In our continuing rant on how people are destroying their lawns by following conventional wisdom we want to add yet another bit of trivia that you were not aware of. Most people have turned their irrigation off for obvious reasons however we have developed a way to...
by Brian Beck | Oct 24, 2022 | General Information
There are 5 things that happen with water that you need to be aware of as they will affect your lawn and your wallet. They are: Infiltration- the water that goes into the lawn whether it be rain or irrigation, this is the water that is applied or fall son the lawn. As...
