Pesticide Ban Has Lawn Care Contractors on Edge BY MAILE BUCHER ON OCT 14, 2015 Eric Wenger, president of Complete Lawn Care, Inc. in Laytonsville, MD, is one contractor who will be directly affected by the recent pesticide ban that was voted into effect in...
Lawn Care Concerns
5 Common Lawn Care Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Everyone dreams of having the healthiest and greenest lawn on the block. Homeowners will put a great deal of time and effort into their lawn care in hopes of achieving this, but unfortunately those efforts can often do more harm than good. Maintaining a healthy lawn...
Mosquito Control in Your Yard
It’s time to throw one of your last barbeque bashes of the summer, but are the mosquitoes in your yard out of control? Not only are mosquitoes a major nuisance, but they can also carry a variety of diseases. Nothing ruins a party quite like the biting and itching from...
How to Tell if You Have a Grub Problem
If you’ve spent any time outside this summer, you know that insects are everywhere. Most insects are beneficial or harmless to us, our lawns and our landscapes. Of all the insects though, few are as despised or well-known as Japanese beetles and their counterparts...
Safely Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden
Pollination is a fundamental part of a healthy ecosystem. Some plants are self-pollinated, some are wind-pollinated, and a large majority requires help from pollinators in order to fully blossom. Unfortunately, evidence hints at diminished populations of pollinators,...
Diagnosing and Managing Brown Patches on Your Lawn
The beauty and green color of your lawn can be affected by many things, from heat and drought to weeds, invasive grasses, insects and diseases. Troublesome and unsightly brown patches often occur in the blink of an eye. You water more and more, yet the brown patches...
Spring Weeds!
Has spring truly arrived in Maryland? I think so - I’ve seen bluebirds, heard Killdeer (they fly at night, singing “kill-deer, kill-deer”…) and, my favorite, the spring peepers are peeping after a long winter’s slumber. Are you seeing a lot of weeds growing in...
“Real Life Lawn Care” Series: What is Crabgrass and How Do You Stop it?
This post is the first installment in our "Real Life Lawn Care" series of posts, which will discuss various and insidious weeds that grow in the Washington DC metro area, as well as other lawn care tips. What is Crabgrass? Let’s start with the facts: Crabgrass is a...
Why Good Lawns are Good for the Environment
Unfortunately, lawns sometimes get a bad reputation. Often, lawns are seen as “bad” because homeowners tend to overdo lawn care and the natural environmental benefits of lawns remain unspoken. In reality, a properly maintained lawn can actually be good for the...
Consider the Facts about Turfgrass
These days, it seems fashionable to deride maintained turfgrass as detrimental to the environment and bad for the people and animals who use it. It’s a fascinating, yet disturbing, changed view of a plant species that offers us safe areas to walk on, play games and...