A green lawn is inviting - and a carpet of lush grass screams of care and pride in your home. Set the tone of your neighborhood and produce the lawn that everyone is talking about. To do that you of course need to properly tend your lawn throughout the growing season. That includes mowing, watering, weeding, and raking as needed. However, as the fall gets near your lawn will thrive in the spring if you go about a good winterizing program of lawn aeration and fertilization.
If you happen to live in a colder area (like Colorado) your lawn is even more vulnerable and it will benefit the most from a good winterizing process. See, during the cold months your lawn does not die, it just hibernates. To make that season one of growth and health, you need to winterize.
There are a number of tasks that can happen at any time, but getting your lawn ready for winter is a time when 'timing is everything'. You do not want to miss out on any of the last weeks of growth and of course, you do not want to wait too long.
If possible before the first frost, rake debris and leaves from the lawn to allow sunlight and the earth's nutrients into the soil during the winter. Keeping the lawn free of dead or dying organic matter will prevent disease and mold from setting in. The act of raking also aerates the soil, allowing a deeper penetration of sun and moisture. Even better than raking alone is a good deep plug lawn aeration.
In addition to clearing out the lawn, now is a great time to take care of those pesky weeds. Give your lawn a fighting chance and get the weeds out now! Weeds will grow all winter so by killing them at the root with things like 'Weed B Gone' or manual weeding (get the roots!) you are going to have a much nicer lawn come spring time.
A good winterizing process should include a winterizing lawn fertilizer. A neighbor of mine had never used one before until last year. His lawn was the first to come in and was so rich and green while everyone's lawn was just starting to emerge from the harsh winter of Colorado. It makes a huge difference.
Just follow a good winterizing routing or have us do it for you (much easier!), and before you know it spring will be here and so will your lawn.
If you want to order a lawn aeration, winterizing lawn fertilization, and your sprinkler blowouts - we can do it all for you at a combined "Bundled Savings". Place your Lawn Care order today! |
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 Since we get so many calls and questions about gardening and landscaping, I thought I would try to help and give you some great information that I’ve found on this subject. Now keep in mind, although we have a lawn care company, our main focus is grass and the soils beneath it. As much as I would love to say that I’m coming up with this information from my own wealth of knowledge, I really can’t take the credit. Gardening and landscaping are not my personal forte, but I did love this author’s take on the great reasons for gardening:
Top 10 reasons to utilize gardening and landscaping in your lawns:
- Kitchen gardens producing homegrown vegetables help connect people to their food and cut down on cost. Grown with care, a 600-square foot patch can yield a $500 return on an average gardener's investment in seeds, plants, fertilizer and other supplies, according to the National Gardening Association.
- Making your backyard your most affordable vacation destination. Since the economy is crimping vacation travel this year, a quick trip to an exotic locale is as close as your backyard. Improve outdoor living areas by transforming them into Asian gardens, tropical paradises or formal English estate.
- Boosting home sales with curb appeal. Want to edge out the competition in a slow market when selling your home? Quality landscapes can boost sale prices by 5 to 10 percent, compared to homes with ho-hum yards, according to a home sale study in the Journal of Environmental Horticulture.
- Go green by planting a sustainable landscape. Reduce waste by composting, recycle hardscape materials such as boulders or flagstone into new designs and mulch with wood chips to cut water use.
- Water-wise is common sense. If living in a dry land is not reason enough, being water-wise is budget friendly and sustainable, so upgrade sprinkler systems and get your heads checked for water efficiency. Consider investing in rain sensors and ET controllers that manage your irrigation based on soil moisture, weather and plant needs.
- Therapeutic effects of gardening are in vogue. Where else can you get a mud facial and rigorous exercise all in one stop? Keep your body healthy by maintaining your yard -- it helps relieve stress, makes your neighbors happy, and provides mental tranquility.
- Stay cool by planting trees. Tree canopies provide shade and evaporative cooling, buffering you from the blazing sun. Invest in trees, and they'll help cool your home, reducing summer energy costs. But be tree smart, and ask a few questions before planting: how much space is available for the tree, will the roots effect your foundation, what trees grow best here and how long will it take to get shade?
- Nostalgia is hip. People yearning for old fashioned beauty are recreating gardens from mom's and grandma's days, using old favorites such as peonies and daisies.
- Light up the landscape. Night lighting gives your home and landscape drama while increasing security. New fluorescent and LED lighting options mean using less electricity.
- Get the kids outside. Parents who are savvy about "no child left indoors" are putting in gardens that attract butterflies and other wildlife, grow vegetables the kids love and flowers they can pick. (Carol O'Meara; dailycamera.com; July 7, 2009.)
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 Church Fundraisers-here’s a great new idea in fundraising that allows your ministries to effectively raise money, and do it in a way as to not offend what’s biblical or the intent of collecting funds in the Church.
Let’s put on the backburner the cookie dough fundraising, the butter braids; you know the products tied to an expiration date. What about the wrapping paper and endless novelty products that just brings on the clutter, or encourages you to purchase a plastic storage tub marked “next years’ Christmas gifts”?
Practical Services
Practical services - lawn care - services you will be utilizing this season anyway-I like it! We’ll call it our “no-brainer” program– Of course your church will want to be a part of this fundraising event! Your ministry will be blessed with countless donations from homeowners that believe in and support your needs, and they receive an actual service that they can justify purchasing, as they were going to purchase it anyway. Additionally, this simultaneously brings greater exposure to your ministry and church.
We focus on people’s desire on their ways to give. We want you to focus less on how to get people to give and more on why to give. You are working with people that are lifelong givers-generous giving is already a part of their habits. We believe in your ministries, and so do the people in your church-what an awesome way to partner up when we are all under the same thought process. In Romans 12:4-8, God clearly states the spiritual gifts He has for us, and giving is one of them! People of faith give in gratitude to God by sharing what God has entrusted to their care. We believe this to its core, and love to see the body of believers supporting one another in their ministries, businesses and communities.
Fundraising That Respects God
We don’t set up the booths or tables in the church, as we believe in respecting God, and the timeliness and appropriateness of fundraising. We want your ministry to succeed in raising funds-God does too! Let’s be sure we aren’t taking away the purpose of what the House of God is for-keeping it to immerse in His word, learn about His will and how to better serve Him.
We’ll help you step away from the fundraisers you are used to, or rather have had to utilize in the past, and introduce a program that really allows your “audience” or customers to see the value and the stewardship in participating in it.
Start Today
Now is the right time to get started. Contact us and we can help you make fundraising within your church a step above the rest. Want to see more about how we do our fundraising? You can read about it: Fundraising - How It Works |
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 Welcome to our website and my first blog posting for the 2009 year, or rather first blog ever! I hope I can provide you with loads of helpful information and tips about Spring lawn care, Fall lawn care, as well as Fundraising for non profit organizations. I am so proud to have such an awesome company that not only can help homeowners build a beautiful green lawn, but also work in the surrounding communities building great relationships and helping non profit organizations of all kinds. I’ve met some awesome people, worked with amazing students and look forward to continuing a path to serve others in the Denver Metro area and further.
Meet The Author(s)...
Now usually I will be the one posting the blogs, however, I’m sure I will force my husband Scott, who is on the lawn care end of things, to sit down and let you know what he can bring to the table in the ways of grass, fertilizers, sprinklers, etc.! Further we will welcome any of you to come and join our community and post your thoughts, opinions, expertise, etc. We would love to hear about what you do, websites you have, companies you work for, and anything you would like to share to allow us to all work together and build one another up! Also, feel free to share the good, the bad and the ugly (in a gentle and verbally appropriate manner) of what you read so we can be sure to “blog-out” the best of what our readers want. You can send us a post or feel free to contact us through our email contact page on the website.
Dirt, Grass, Bugs, Oh My...
I must say when we first started on this path of building a company involving dirt, grass, bugs and the like, I figured, being a mom of three boys would come in handy. That really is their thing, right? I already have three future employees, whether they know it or not. We are from Memphis, Tennessee and coming to Colorado has been a dream of ours for years. We may have lived in the “bible belt”, but we really are in God’s Country now! I remember thinking when this business model presented itself to us, I thought this is genius. As a mom who has been on the receiving end of countless fundraisers with kids in school, church and sports groups, this was a refreshing idea and unique twist on the traditional fundraising options. Combine lawn care and fundraising - and there you go an easy, no-brainer concept to make fundraising quick and easy. With that in mind, we jumped at the chance to build it up, and here we are two years later and still having fun.
Along with giving you great lawn care information here in these blogs, we would love to get to know the community and our customers enough to share their beautiful properties and lawn care advice as well. I can’t wait to start sharing with you some of the awesome non-profit groups and their participants and allow you all to really become a big part of what we are all about-family, friends, community and giving ourselves away to others. |
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