Best Flowering Shrubs for Spring
Watch how Ron Sieracki gives advice about the best flowering shrubs for the spring.
Help Your Lawn Recover from A Tough Winter
Help your lawn recover from drought conditions and a tough winter We all look forward to the time of year when our lawns green up and our thoughts turn to outdoor activities and barbecues. Unfortunately, lawn damage may be prevalent due to dry or drought conditions from last year paired with unusually cold temperatures and…
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Winter Injury? Salt Damage? Both?
As winter drags closer to eventually ending are your trees looking a little worse for wear and tear? Salt Damage, Planting Issues, Winter Injury and Normal Physiological Responses, can all look very similar to the untrained eye. You can spend hours looking through search engines, and days figuring out what look alike ailment is causing…
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Shield Your Landscape from Tick-Borne Disease with Organics
Warm weather brings with it lots of good things including longer days spent enjoying our yards with our families. Unfortunately, more time spent outdoors also means an increased risk of contracting a tick-borne disease. Deer ticks are known vectors of Lyme disease which, according to the Tick Borne Disease Alliance is the number one tick-borne…
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Boxwood Blight: A New Threat
Boxwood, long popular with homeowners for being versatile, easy to prune and largely resistant to deer browsing has recently come under fire from a very dangerous fungus. Boxwood Blight, a fungal disease that first reared its head in the United Kingdom in the 1990’s, has made its way to the United States with reported cases…
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Creepy. Crawly. Healthy. Delicious. Insects?
Are Insects About to Invade Your Dinner Plate? Caramel glazed crickets anyone? How about some mealworm French fries or banana worm bread? While most will probably cringe at the sound of those dishes, there is a rapidly growing population who are seeing insects in a different light and cashing in on some substantial health benefits.…
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Snow mold is very challenging to lawn recovery
What is Snow Mold? Snow mold is a fungal disease that appears when snow melts in early spring.There are two varieties of snow mold. Gray Snow Mold Gray snow mold forms under snow piles and is characterized by circular patches of straw-colored turf that appear matted and may have gray webbing present. Pink Snow Mold…
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