by Joe Yedowitz | Jan 30, 2014 | Seasonal Tips
Winter is the perfect time to start planning your lawn maintenance for the upcoming year. It allows you to do at least SOME sort of gardening activity even when the weather outside is frightfully cold. You can get your tools sharpened and cleaned so they are ready to...
by Joe Yedowitz | Jan 23, 2014 | Gardens / Landscapes, Tips / Advice
You’ve done your homework and selected a landscaping company to come and do work at your house. They had great reviews, beautiful examples in their portfolio and seemed to understand what you wanted done to your garden. Since you clicked so well, do you really...
by Joe Yedowitz | Jan 17, 2014 | Gardens / Landscapes, Tips / Advice
Perhaps you’ve been daydreaming of renovating your garden this spring once the cold snowy days are over. Is hiring a landscape professional to do it for you worth it? The answer is a resounding yes! When you hire a landscaping company, you get the benefit of...
by Joe Yedowitz | Dec 12, 2013 | Gardens / Landscapes, Seasonal Tips, Tips / Advice
December 2013 has certainly been a little more “white” than we expected. In preparation for the winter months, have you: 1) Prepared your broadleaf evergreens for the harsh winter winds and temperatures? Your broadleaf evergreens prefer a winter coat for...
by Joe Yedowitz | Nov 22, 2013 | Lawn Tips, Seasonal Tips, Tips / Advice
Yes, it’s getting chilly out there and YES It is time to apply your final application of fertilizer to your lawn! If you think it’s too cold to fertilize your lawn….think again. Here are the many benefits to a late fall, early winter fertilizer: The...
by Joe Yedowitz | Nov 15, 2013 | Gardens / Landscapes, Plant of the Month, Seasonal Tips, Tips / Advice
Spring Color Nothing announces spring with as much color and life as the early blooms of crocus, the brilliant trumpets of daffodils and the elegance of tulips. Spring-flowering bulbs of all kinds are an important part of maintaining year-round color in any garden,...
by Joe Yedowitz | Oct 7, 2013 | Decorative, Lawn Tips, Plant of the Month, Tips / Advice
Fall is here… Lawn furniture is getting put away (slowly), snow blowers are being pulled out from the sheds and sent away for a quick tune up. People ask me, “Joe…what can you possibly be landscaping in the fall?” Truth be told, we are busy...
by Joe Yedowitz | Aug 31, 2013 | Lawn Tips, Seasonal Tips, Tips / Advice
This is the BEST TIME to give your lawn a chance to thicken up!!!! You’ve heard me ranting about Fall Lawn Care for years….so here it comes again. Following a summer of heat, mowing and foot traffic, lawn soils may become compacted and end up in desperate...
by Joe Yedowitz | May 31, 2013 | Gardens / Landscapes
One of the great things about gardening is that in some way your garden can take care of itself. Now, that’s not endorsing abandoning garden chores completely, but there are a few things that you can do to make your work a little easier. One of these things is to...
by Joe Yedowitz | May 17, 2013 | Gardens / Landscapes, Irrigation
“Do my trees and shrubs really need to be fertilized?” We hear this question time and time again from our customers, and the answer is a resounding “yes!” Construction activities when homes are built lead to soil that is heavily compacted, poorly aerated and poorly...
