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  • Lawn Mowing Tips To Care For Your Lawn Regularly

    Keeping their lawn looking great all summer is a goal of many homeowners, but it requires some regular diligence and care. Here are some tips to help you properly mow and care for your lawn if you want a yard and lawn that will be the envy of your neighborhood. Take Care of Your Mower First, it is important to take care of the machine that will take care of your lawn—your lawn mower.
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  • Lawn Care Recommendations To Apply A Top Dressing Treatment

    Your landscaping and lawn create a beautiful outdoor space for you to enjoy from spring to late fall. But when the health of your lawn begins to suffer due to weeds, patchy areas, and bad soil, it can spoil even the most attractive lawns into a patchy and scraggly surface. Here are some recommendations for you to take care of your lawn and its appearance with a top dress treatment for a beautiful outdoor space you can enjoy all summer and into fall.
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  • The Grass Isn't Real! Benefits Of Artificial Turf For Homes With Kids

    Artificial turf, more colloquially known as "fake grass," is often seen as an option for football fields and baseball diamonds. But it's also a really good choice for residential yards — especially those owned by families with kids! Here are a few of the kid- and family-friendly benefits you can look forward to with "fake grass." 1. Your kids won't come in with allergy symptoms as often. So many people are allergic to grass pollen.
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  • How to Design a Fast-Growing Cutting Garden

    When you move into a new home, sometimes the landscaping isn't to your liking. Perhaps the yard isn't even landscaped, which is common with newly-built communities. Whatever the reason, you're looking at planting a whole new yard. Perhaps you'd like to include a flower garden to provide bouquets for your new home. Homeowners often need a quick turnaround for whole-scale yard projects. In fact, some Home Owners Associations for new communities put a time frame on how quickly you must install new landscaping into a bare yard.
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  • Suffering From Brown-Thumb Syndrome? Here's How To Turn It Green

    If you're one of those people who've never seemed to be able to get anything to grow, you're certainly not alone. Some people seem to have what's commonly known as a green thumb, which means that their yard and garden areas always present an attractive appearance. On the other hand, others have what's often jokingly referred to as a brown thumb, which means that anything they try to grow withers up and dies in short order after being planted.
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  • 3 Essential Components Of A Good Commercial Landscape

    When deciding on commercial landscape features, you need a combination of features that promote security while beautifying the area. There are three major components that are necessary for a good commercial landscape. Walkways When choosing the materials for walkways on the property, you should consider which options are easy to maintain, especially in localities that may experience significant weather problems. Light-colored concrete is a popular choice because it provides adequate contrast against the surrounding grass, which can also allow light to reflect off the path at night.
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  • Top Reasons To Hire A Turf Management Professional To Maintain Sport Fields

    Sports fields are typically expertly maintained and look perfect at any given time. This is typically due to the fact that sports fields are cared for by turf management professionals who understand how to keep both artificial turf and natural grass in excellent condition. If you own or manage any sports complexes, venues, or fields, you may want to seriously consider hiring a turf management professional or company to provide regular services.
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  • Why You Should Make Tree Trimming Part Of Your Property Maintenance

    As a homeowner, you have a long list of things to keep in mind when it comes to performing maintenance on your property or house. But there's one particular part of your property that can often go overlooked, even by those who enjoy doing regular landscaping and that's the overall condition of your trees. For best results, every home owner should get their trees professionally trimmed on a regular basis. Here's how a tree services company can help keep your trees and the rest of your property in good shape.
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  • 4 Tips To Choosing The Right Materials For Different Retaining Wall Designs And Needs

    Retaining walls are used for different needs in landscaping, which hold back soil to prevent problems like erosion, to give you more valuable space, or to add unique usable space to uneven terrain. Depending on the design and what you are building your retaining wall for, you will want to use different materials. The following tips will help you choose the right materials for the type of retaining wall you are building: 
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  • Don't Leave Them Bare: 4 Reasons You Should Add Mulch To Your Gardens

    If you've been leaving your gardens with bare soil, you need to start adding a layer of mulch. The addition of mulch is often a step that's overlooked in gardens. Unfortunately, overlooking this step could actually expose your gardens that could be avoided. Here are just four of the reasons your gardens shouldn't go without mulch. Natural Way to Reduce Weed Growth If you're constantly outside picking weeds from the soil or you rely on herbicide treatments to control the weeds, it's time to add a layer of mulch to your gardens.
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