Essential Tips for Maintaining a Beautiful Lawn During the Hot Virginia Summer
Maintaining a vibrant and healthy lawn in the hot Virginia summer requires a combination of homeowner efforts and professional care.
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Essential Summer Lawn Care Maintenance for Virginia
After Memorial Day is a great time to start your summer lawn care and provide your lawn with the essentials it needs throughout the summer in Virginia.
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5 Things You Can do Now to Get a Beautiful Virginia Green Lawn This Summer
By following these five simple steps, you can ensure that you have a beautiful Virginia green and picture perfect lawn all summer long.
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What Happens to Grass in the Winter?
What happens to grass in the winter? We know that trees drop their leaves in the winter and that most flowers stop blooming, but the majority of people are not as familiar with what happens to the plants beneath their feet when temperatures drop and the world goes to sleep. Grass is one of the…
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Winterizing Fertilizer
Winterizing fertilizer is used for certain turf types at the end of the growing season each year. It’s important to know not only when to winterize your lawn, but also what kind of fertilizer to apply. Certain types of lawns need a certain balance of nutrients at certain times of the year. For example, a…
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Fall Leaf Clean Up Tips
Fall leaf clean up is an expected chore for most homeowners. Almost every suburban property has at least one tree within or against its property lines. It could be as bare as a single small tree in the front yard or as covered as a fully wooded lot, but for the vast majority of homeowners,…
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Is Mulching Leaves Bad for Grass Seedlings?
Is mulching leaves bad for grass seedlings? It depends on the maturity of your new fescue lawn and how long it has been since your fall seeding, but typically, this is not the ideal way to handle leaves on lawn over winter. When fall seeding overlaps with fall leaf season, there can be a difficult…
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When to Winterize Sprinklers
Knowing when to winterize sprinklers can make a great difference for a homeowner that is working to establish and maintain a healthy turf type tall fescue lawn. Winterizing sprinkler system set ups is necessary during the winter to prevent water in the irrigation pipes from freezing and breaking anything, but the ideal time at which…
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Watering New Lawn Seed
Watering new lawn areas correctly after a fall seeding is vital to successful grass seed germination and maturation. A fescue lawn needs to have an overseeding service done each year to maintain a thick and healthy population of turf. When fall seeding is usually such an investment for homeowners, proper seeding aftercare is a key…
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The Best Quality Grass Seed
Why The Best Grass Seed Quality Matters for Fescue Overseeding The best grass seed can make a big difference in the success of your fall overseeding service. There are many brands and varieties of turf grass seed, but certain types of grass like fescue seed are purchased every year by homeowners and professionals that work…
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How Often Should I Overseed my Lawn?
How often should I overseed my lawn? The answer can vary depending on environmental factors as well as the type of lawn being maintained. If you maintain fescue in a transition zone region like the Richmond, VA area, overseeding fescue is best to do on a yearly basis. Fescue grass seed germinates best in mild…
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Lawn Renovation
Lawn renovation is in a lot of ways the “atomic bomb drop” of the turf management world. When tall fescue grass is your goal, this method of redoing lawn areas in your yard takes you from killing off a lawn in full to seeding fescue heavily and reestablishing uniform turf. Pursuing a fall lawn renovation…
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Hopewell Lawn Care
Hopewell lawn care doesn’t have to involve such a struggle to find a professional and reliable company for fertilizer, weed control, aeration, seeding, and other services. Aren’t you tired of feeling like the only person in Hopewell, VA without a head turning lawn? Does your Hopewell, VA lawn care routine feel like your least favorite…
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Colonial Heights Lawn Care
Colonial Heights lawn care on a professional and successful scale has been for too long a far fetched dream for many residents. Whether it’s been the pursuit of fertilizer, weed control, core aeration, seeding, or anything else related to building a beautiful lawn, the amount of time, money, and energy that goes into either doing…
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Dinwiddie Lawn Care
Dinwiddie lawn care should be something that brings you joy, not misery. There are already too many things in life that are unpleasant, whether it’s having to work one on one with your least favorite co-worker, watching gas prices climb higher each time you stop to fill your tank, or anything else you’re dealing with…
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How to Stripe a Lawn
How to stripe a lawn And Other Mowing Tips How to stripe a lawn is a question homeowners frequently ask. When you are ready to mow your lawn, there are several other aspects to mowing technique that are just as important to both the health of your lawn and its appearance. Mowing height, blade sharpness,…
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May Flowers 2019
May Flowers 2019 Next for Your Lawn In May With a sudden and unexpected heat wave that pulled temperatures as high as the 90s last week, May is shaping up to be a fairly dry and warm month. As a result, most lawns are getting thirsty at this point. If you haven’t already, now is…
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Watering the Lawn
Watering the lawn Best Practices for Fescue Turf Watering the lawn is a necessity for most homeowners in RVA with fescue turf due to the heat we experience in the summer. Of all the questions that homeowners ask the turf management professionals they hire to maintain their lawn, those about watering schedules and systems are…
