Lawn Care
An important element to your well-manicured lawn comes from the edging. There is a difference between edging and trimming. Edging is not something you can do with a weedeater. You really need a vertical cut line to delineate from your lawn to the sidewalk, patio, or pathway. This clean line accentuates your beautiful lawn unlike any other maintenance item. It cleans up any grass or other groundcover that creeps out of control and appears unruly. Edging cuts ... Read the rest of this story
Jun
22
The Dichotomoy of Dichondra: Delicate, Beautiful and Unsteppable
By: Leslie
In: Grass Types, Lawn Care, Mowing
A little girl steps off the wooden deck in her backyard onto the cool, green carpet of grass. You can almost feel the delicate grass envelop your own foot as you watch her tiny toes. “Don’t step on it!” her mother shrieks from a chaise lounge on the deck. Just fertilized? A dousing of herbicide? You wonder why the toddler can’t step on that green pasture of a lawn. The answer: it’s dichondra, also spelled “dicondra.” The Beauty of ... Read the rest of this story
In the west, especially in Southern California, the residents are plagued with June gloom–a thick layer of gray clouds that hide the sun until noon. Humans usually don’t like this, but snails do. The gloom extends their breakfast into brunch. Snails: Eat or Be Eaten Do you know what a snail’s breakfast consists of? A few blooms from your favorite growing bulbs, a few bites of romaine, and some green grass. Yes, grass! Snails love the green stuff. ... Read the rest of this story
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