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Six steps for a perfect lawn

Grass Seed USA, a coalition of American grass seed farmers and turf specialists, offers six steps to get your lawn on track for summer during April’s National Lawn Care Month. Step One: Rake – Raking your lawn removes dead grass, leftover winter leaves and other debris, allowing you to control thatch and see bare or worn areas that need attention. It also permits new, young grass to grow more easily and increases soil contact when seeding.

April 11, 2013

Business

Snow Means Big Business for Some Companies

Not all bad weather is bad for business. Some stores and companies in our area really look forward to winter weather. Local landscapers and employees of a hardware store told us about how snow, for them, shovels in the cash.

January 24, 2013

Business

Living Walls for Both Indoor, Outdoor Plants

After the first hard frosts of fall had told most other gardens it was time to hunker down for the winter, Marie and Jean-Pierre Hamel’s vertical outdoor garden was still a riot of visual interest, even as its hardy alpine plants entered dormancy.

January 7, 2013

Business

Winter Brings Injuries, Illness, Snow and Ice

With winter weather slowly but surely coming our way, a local hospital is helping to make sure that we don’t get left out in the cold when it comes to health.

December 3, 2012

Business

Toro Debuts New Two-Stage Snow Blowers

If you went shopping for a Toro snow blower last winter, yours was a single-stage model or a significantly larger and more expensive two-stage model with a 28-inch or larger auger.

November 19, 2012