Yard - Why it Really Matters For any homeowner, lawn & yard care tips are likely not their main concern. Even veteran homeowners and house renters will likely not consider their yards important. This is especially true for those who don't like landscape design and mowing. While this may be a good approach for concentrating on more urgent matters, it does not recognize the importance of lawns and yards. 79 per cent of people in the United States say a lawn is an important element in buying or renting a house. This statistic is according to a survey conducted on behalf of the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP). The people looking to buy or rent homes are taking note of their lawns' size (and probably state). If this majority of people regard lawns as important, they probably also pay attention to all the lawns they pass. According to the survey, lawn size was even the number one priority for millennials. Anyone who puts off starting with some lawn care tips in the spring and thinks that most people will not [...]

Winter has arrived. And your lawn takes a beating with cold, dry winds and other winter weather. You can protect your OK lawn this winter when you hire your local lawn care company to apply winter fertilizer, also known as winterizer, to your property. HOW WINTER DAMAGES OK LAWN GRASS Frosty mornings, winter winds, and freeze/thaw cycles in late winter and early spring can damage your lawn. Frost isn’t dangerous in itself. However, if you, your family or your pets walk or play on your lawn a lot when there’s frost on it, your yard grass is at risk for death. Why? The cells within the plant burst, hemorrhaging moisture out of the grass plant. Also, winter winds whipping across your lawn will lead to desiccation (drying out) of your turfgrass. Finally, early spring freeze/thaw cycles damage the crowns of turfgrass because of the sudden warm-up and a thawed ground only to refreeze again during the night. Learn more: Read how different cool-loving plants can brighten up your landscape. WINTERIZER DEFINED Winterizer’s ingredients have more phosphorous and potassium that promote better water and nutrition [...]

10 FALL YARD AND LANDSCAPE JOBS TO COMPLETE BEFORE WINTER It’s fall clean up time when you rake the leaves, pull out tired annuals and apply a fresh coat of mulch on your Oklahoma City, OK lawn. What’s the big deal about fall clean up? At the very least, you want to make sure all of the leaves are removed from your lawn so that there are no bare patches or diseased turfgrass next spring. 10 THINGS TO CLEAN UP IN YOUR OK YARD AND GARDEN You want your lawn grass to survive over the winter as well as keep a tidy landscape. There are 10 jobs you must do in the fall to get that look before winter when it’s too cold to work outside: 1.    Don’t let leaves pile up on your lawn or in your flowerbeds: You don’t want piles of leaves accumulating on your property. Your turfgrass underneath can get a disease or just die because there’s not any sunlight or oxygen penetrating through the leaves. Plus, it’s impossible to mow your lawn with a layer of leaves on [...]