The Lawnmower Blog

As the days get warmer and longer, lawn care is quickly again becoming part of your weekly household routine.

But there's nothing more annoying in the busy summer months than wasting your weekend trying to get the mower to start.

The key to ensuring that your lawnmower is ready is to do a few simple maintenance steps.  When spring arrives many grasscutters find that their lawn equipment won't start or runs poorly.  Here are a few helpful hints to hopefully get you cutting instead of cursing.

1. Make sure you always use fresh, premium gas:  The need for premium gas is essential for ensuring the longevity and...

Take your Time with Spring Chores this Season

Take your Time with Spring Chores this Season.  Many homeowners fail to realize that at the beginning of the season, our lawn's are still quite fragile. Aggressive raking  can do more harm than good to your lawn as you are often tearing at the lawns rather than raking. 

Creating a great lawn and landscape is not a race but a slow, steady marathon. In the first few weeks of spring, our lawns have not adjusted to the warmer climates.  They are mostly buried other a layer of dead grass; thatch. thatch is a protective layer of grass that preserve live grass roots to grow from...

Now is the best time to reseed your lawn. There is a way to do this successfully at a reasonable cost and if applied and maintained properly will give you terrific results.

For best results, you should dethatch and aeriate your lawn.  Dethatching removes the thick layer of dead grass that prevents moisture from entering the soil. Core aeriating your lawn removes plugs from the lawn and leaves holes for air and water to enter, enriching the soil and significantly improving your lawn.

If you really want a healthy, green, weed-free lawn, you should do this every spring for several years. Remember: Your lawn requires...

Now is the time to give your lawn a little tender loving care if you want to enjoy a lush green carpet of grass in the summer.

There are several things you should get done before you start grasscutting.

Now that the snow is finally gone it's agood idea to go out remove the pine cones, pine straw, dog poop and anything else from your yard that would prevent theair and moisture from going down into the lawn.  By doing so, you want to avoid the spike in soil temperature on your lawn. "Once the soil temperatures reach 55F or 12.75 C crabgrass and other weeds start to germinate (emerge from their seeds).

Some...

The snow is finally starting to melt. As the days get warmer and longer, lawn care is quickly again becoming part of the household routine.

But there's nothing more annoying in the busy summer months than wasting your weekend trying to get the mower to start.

Whether you be a landscape contractor or homeowner the key to ensuring that your outdoor power equipment is ready is to do a few simple maintenance steps.  When spring arrives many grasscutters find that their lawn equipment won't start or runs poorly.

The improper storage of gas within units in by far the number one cause of problems within their equipment. ...

 The Added Value of Landscaping

 
Every neighbourhood has one house that is the talk of the neighbourhood, the house with the prettiest flowers, the best cut lawn and the shaped hedges and while it can be a tremendous undertaking to create such a landscape, the payoff may make it worthwhile.

“I spend a good amount of time at the start of the season educating my customers on the many benefits of investing in their properties landscapes.” says Chris M. a professional landscaper and longtime 20 year customer of Alpine Lawn and Garden. 
 
A nicely landscaped property can add as much as 15 percent to the resale value.