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Business

How to make your business eco-friendly

Grass may be green, but the practices and techniques to get a lawn to look lush, green and healthy are often anything but. With more and more people taking on a more sustainable lifestyle, eco-friendly lawn care is becoming popular.

May 2, 2013

Design-Build

Landscape trend: Lawn elimination

I have never been accused of being a trendsetter. Yes, I did have a pair of chunky “Mad Men” style glasses before everyone else, but I was 12 and also had an overbite and knee braces. Middle school was rough… So, when I highlight a landscape trend, it’s not to start one. I am just […]

April 9, 2013

Business

Dead lawns, be gone! But are they dead?

If your front lawn looked as dead as a dodo’s door-nail last fall, that doesn’t make it so. There is still a decent chance that with a double dose of water and a dollop of lovin’, the deadest-looking lawn in this drought-dinged country can dramatically rise from the dead this spring.

April 3, 2013

Lawn maintenance

Pest control: Lights out for mole crickets

Tried-and-true methods are your best bet for controlling this Coastal Plain pest. Mole crickets continue to be a problem in the areas stretching from North Carolina to East Texas. Recognized in many of those states as the No. 1 insect pest for home lawns, millions are spent each year trying to control them.

March 12, 2013

Landscaping equipment

Equipment matters: Cut back on down time

Here are four tips to enhance the life of your mower. As the icy chill of winter starts to melt away, welcoming in the green of spring, it’s time for landscapers to pull off the tarps and gas up their lawn mowers. But before they crank up the machine and lower the blade, they should […]

March 4, 2013

Design-Build

Paid to Eat

Forget about harmful emissions, gas prices and the ethanol debate when you add these wooly grass eaters to your lawn-maintenance fleet. Eddie Miller founded Heritage Lawn Mowing in Oberlin, Ohio, and did just that by renting out Jacob sheep as a landscaping aid. He took the sheep to about 20 clients’ yards where they grazed […]

February 8, 2013

Business

Prep Grass for Spring

The new year is here – and to ensure you and your lawn are prepared for the upcoming year, Grass Seed USA and other natural-turf specialists have come together to develop an easy 12-month lawn-care plan to help guide your lawn maintenance throughout 2013.

January 14, 2013

Business

Gehl contributes equipment use to “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”

Gehl, which manufactures compact equipment used in construction and agriculture applications, donated the use of a Gehl RS8-44 Telescopic Hand…

December 12, 2006