It is officially the start of fall, and while you may want to clean up your landscape, stop and put those pruners away! Let your plants go dormant for the next month or two, as it is actually critical that… Read More
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Maximize Your Small Yard With Landscaping
If you have a small yard, you may think that landscaping is impossible or useless, but it can actually make a huge difference. Small yards are more difficult to landscape, but they have their advantages. A backyard is meant to… Read More
Benefits Of School Gardens For Students
As kids grow up in a world ruled by technology and spend less and less time outdoors, they are losing the important connection all humans should have with nature and the Earth. As school starts up again this fall, talk… Read More
How to Get a Jump-Start on Fall Vegetables!
Take advantage of the cooler weather to grow a beautiful garden with fall vegetables. In warmer parts of the country, broccoli, kale, collards, spinach, lettuce, Swiss chard, and a number of wonderful herbs like rosemary and cilantro grow just as well in… Read More
How to Prepare Your Garden for Autumn
Autumn is coming. While fall is harvesting season it also marks an important transition period for your garden. The work that needs to be done now not only prepares your plot for the season at hand, but for the ones… Read More
Keep Your Lawn Mower Running Smooth
Last week we wrote all about how to mow your lawn like the professionals on MLB grounds crews — but we realized something! None of that matters if your lawn mower isn’t even working properly! So we wanted to come… Read More
Spring Training on the Mind: Make Your Lawn Look Like an MLB Outfield
Major league pitchers and catchers start reporting to spring training in Florida and Arizona this week, so we’ve got our minds set on baseball season. As excited as we are for the season itself and seeing what the Orioles will… Read More
How to Grow a Thick, Luscious Lawn — Lawn Care Tips
Turns out Punxsutawney Phil is a little liar. Last week he told us that winter was over and spring would be coming soon, and then today we wake up and it’s snowing again! I guess that’s what we get for… Read More
Punxsutawney Phil Says Spring Landscaping is Coming — Are You Ready?
Whoever started the tradition of determining the length of winter based on whether a rodent sees his shadow or not — we thank you. While a groundhog likely doesn’t have the meteorological knowledge to know when it’s going to warm… Read More
Reviving Your Yard After Jonas’ Winter Landscaping Damage
Remember that ominous forecast from last week? Yeah, that happened. Winter Storm Jonas has come and gone through the Mid-Atlantic, and yards throughout the region are now blanketed in snow. With this much snow, it’s likely that you may have… Read More