Lawn looking rough? Now's the time to fix it!

Right now is the perfect time to repair your lawn. If it's suffering from drought or from Hurricane Isaac, you can still save it for next year!

from umn.edu

If you've got brown patches or spots that are completely dead, it's time to plant seed or sod. The most popular grasses are St. Augustine, Bermuda, and Buffalo. (Remember, don't buy the wrong kind of seed! You don't want a lawn of mixed grasses.)

Plant new lawns or repair struggling ones this month by prepping the soil so that it is organic, fertile, well-drained, and has the proper slope (with all the flooding the coast gets, don't slope it down towards your house!). If the lawn slopes towards the house, driveway, garden, or sidewalk, it will channel water in that direction and encourage flooding. 

While you're getting your new lawn ready, don't forget to clear out the weeds, till, and rake. Then plant the seeds and water well. Don't let the new lawns get too dry before they develop a good root system and get growing--the same goes for lawn repairs.

Feeling overwhelmed? That's OK too! Just give us a call, we can get your whole yard looking better than ever. You can contact us via our number, email, facebook, or G+!

Beat the Skeets! (Mosquitoes!)

Mosquito season has been hard-hitting so far this year. With a record-warm winter, along the Gulf Coast, we never got a break from the mosquitoes. And, while we may have enjoyed not having frozen noses, we also missed out on the benefit of it killing off some of those blood-suckers.

Here are somethings you can do to help prevent the propagation of even more mosquitoes.

• Check your home and garden for places that can collect rainwater and remains. (Be sure to check rain gutters, catch basins for potted plants, and discarded items such as buckets and old tires.)
• Clean out your birdbaths every week!
• Make your yard a safe place for mosquito eating birds, such as: common nighthawk, cuckoos, flycatchers, gnatcatchers, purple martin, owls, starlings, vireos, warblers, whip-poor-wills, chickadees, catbirds, mockingbirds, meadowlarks, orioles, robins, woodpeckers, and wrens. 
• Put bird feeders with different kinds of seeds into your yard to attract a variety of birds. Some prefer things like sunflower seeds and safflower seeds.
• If you like things a bit more on the dark side, try getting a bat house. Bats are great mosquito eaters.
• Remember the weeds I told you about recently? If you've got some shepherd's purse that have gone to seed, just pope a seed into a bucket of water. The seed will release chemicals that are toxic to mosquitoes and kill some off for you.

from steinerdonna.blogspot.com