Enjoy pumpkins even after Halloween
After fall break, find out how you can use both carved and whole pumpkins in your garden and at home. Pumpkins play an essential role in celebrating the fall holidays. Artistically carved jack-o’-lanterns decorate our doorsteps, and whole pumpkins add a festive touch to tabletops and other spaces around the home. Once Halloween passes and […]
Use Pumpkins to Decorate Home
” Bright orange pumpkins or their albino cousins make the easiest Halloween decorations. “ It’s hard not to equate fall with the big, rich, orange pumpkins, especially the ones by everyone’s front door. This is always a classic look for fall, but this season we gave it a twist by incorporating pumpkins inside. Of course, […]
Tree and Landscape Winterization Checklist
If you have branches hanging over your home, sidewalk or driveway, you may want to consider pruning, removing or installing cables before they fail under the stress of winter weather. If a limb is dead, dying, diseased, or unsafe, it is best to remove it. Are you generally preparing your home for the cold winter, […]
Why Fencing for your property?
Adding wood chips under the tree has many benefits. Some of these benefits include: Maintain soil moisture. Leach nutrients as they break down over time. Suffocation of weeds and invasive plants. However, it is important to aerate the root zone before adding wood chips to your garden and trees. This improves oxygenation and leaching in […]
Give your lawn a fall tune-up
A wheelbarrow with a rake and a pile of autumn leaves in the garden.[/caption] Giving your old lawn a little TLC, this fall can help you achieve a lush, healthy lawn in the spring. Your lawn has probably taken a big hit this summer. Family gatherings, bringing dogs, children’s games and toys, combined with […]
Remove Fall Leaves from Your Yard
Learn about our top tips to avoid buyer’s regret and get more valuable buying and planting advice. It is not only people who enjoy the temperature of autumn, but also plants. In fact, fall can be one of the best times to add new plants to your landscape. Mild temperatures in autumn are relatively mild […]
What you need to know about winter composting
Learn how to keep your compost pile hot when the weather is below freezing. Just because the weather is cold or outright icy and snowy doesn’t mean your outdoor compost pile has to hibernate for the winter. After all, there are still kitchen scraps, leaves, and other materials to deal with. Even in cold weather, […]
Remove Fall Leaves from Your Yard
All leaves in the yard should be raked, mulched, blow-dried, bagged and composted. why? Placing foliage on your lawn can block sunlight from reaching your lawn, which can lead to lawn diseases such as snow mold. But what’s the best way to handle the fall colors that cover lawns, sidewalks, driveways, and even roofs? Grab […]
Fall Lawn Care Ideas
As fall approaches, winter is likely to leave your lawn dormant, so you can be generous with your lawn care. We tend to forget that spring is the best way to keep your lawn green and healthy. Fall needs some work. As temperatures drop, fall becomes the best season to fertilize, control weeds, and improve […]
How to clean the yard
Cleaning your yard shouldn’t be a complex process that makes you feel bad every time you go outside. You can increase the value of your lawn and home by turning lawn care into a fun sport. To get good results when cleaning your yard, try the following: Yard layout Don’t start mowing without first considering […]