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3 Insider Landscaping Winterization Practices You Should Know

This is the time of year when the usual landscaping winterization practices have been completed. These seasonal routines amount to tidying up the landscape. Leaves are raked and loose branches and debris are picked up. This maintenance clears the deck for one last mowing to give that green canvas a crisp appearance. It’s a celebratory end of the season for homeowners. For professional horticulturists and arborists, this is when plans for springtime success begin. Harsh Minnesota winters can dump a truckload of challenges at ornamental landscapes. Implementing a few insider winterization practices, such as dormant pruning, wind barriers, and snow

How to Hire a Standout Landscape Contractor

Landscape contractors are people, too. Due to this not so surprising observation, it is vital that we consider that all people are different when we decide to choose a landscaper to help us achieve our landscaping goals. Some people are annoying, a few are lazy, others are flakey, some people take too long selecting an orange which causes us to be late for our family dinner, and some people are hilarious. The point is, landscapers, like all people, offer us a variety of personality spectrums, and some of those spectrum ranges may grind our gears. Just because landscaping takes place

Get a Jump On Your Perfect Summer Lawn with These 5 Tips

The front lawns of eight average homes have a cooling effect equal to 70 tons of air conditioning. The average central air system only has 3 to 4 tons. Well-kept lawns decrease air pollution and can increase a home’s property values by up to 20%. These are all good reasons to insure your lawn is at its best, and our tips can help ensure it will be all summer long. Test and Wake Starting in early spring, once the last snows have melted, test your soil. You want a neutral pH for the best lawn. If it’s too high or too

How to Keep Those Pesky Weeds from Overtaking Your Property

So, you’ve put a lot of effort into that lush green lawn. Your garden is healthy and productive, and your flower beds are the pride of the neighborhood-but then you see it. A weed, and where there is one there are many more to follow. Weeds propagate rapidly and have deep and extensive root systems, which makes them more than a little difficult to eradicate. There is hope though! Read on to see how you can gain an advantage over those pesky weeds. Mulch Mulch is your yard’s best friend. It keeps weeds down and soils cool and moist.

How to Hire a Standout Landscape Contractor

The Latest Gardening Trends in 2018 and How to Incorporate Them

The term gardening evolves each year. Today, gardening is a mix of landscaping and small-scale farming. Technology is improving gardening whether your idea of gardening is growing your own food or showcasing your yard. Whatever your goals or needs are, gardening is rewarding. The sheer number of gardening methods, ideas or definitions makes determining trends difficult, to say the least. For that reason, I’ll limit the scope of this post to trends related to traditional gardening such as organic landscaping or growing your own food. There’s no better place to begin gardening than growing your own food. Growing Your Own Fruit,

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3 Insider Landscaping Winterization Practices You Should Know

How to Hire a Standout Landscape Contractor

Get a Jump On Your Perfect Summer Lawn with These 5 Tips

How to Keep Those Pesky Weeds from Overtaking Your Property

How to Hire a Standout Landscape Contractor

The Latest Gardening Trends in 2018 and How to Incorporate Them

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