Lawn Care

Avoid a lawn seeding disaster

Avoid a Lawn Seeding Disaster

Have a watering plan for your fall seeding in place and ready to go before you start seeding the lawn. Lawn Science seeds a couple of hundred yards every fall and the most successful results always follow a solid watering plan. Make sure you have enough hoses and sprinklers ready to keep your newly seeded…

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Time to Lime?

Time to Lime?

Fall is a great time to apply Lime to your lawn. Lime will increase the PH of your soil. A 6.5 PH will get you the best looking lawn. Most lawns in Connecticut have acid soils and need lime every year. How much to lime? It’s best to have your soil tested by UCONN soil…

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Fall Lawn Care

Fall Lawn Care with Lawn Science

After a long hot and dry summer your lawn needs some help to recover from the summer stress. Lawn Science recommends applying organic lawn food in September which feeds the grass and improves the soil. Lawn Science also recommends applying an application of Organic liquid aeration to improve water penetration and grass root growth. Fall…

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Lawn to Survive the Summer Heat

3 Ways to Get your Lawn to Survive the Summer Heat

Lawn care is easy in the spring and the fall months. Summer is where your lawns biggest challenge. Scorching heat, little rain, insects and fungus can play havoc with your lawn. 1.Apply liquid organic aeration. Liquid organic aeration lets water penetrate deeper into the soil and holds the water for a longer period of time.…

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Grub

Best Time to Apply Grub Control to Your Lawn.

Every year grubs cause millions of dollars in damage to lawns. All across America lawns are affected by grubs. Grubs are the larvae of Japanese beetles, June beetles, European chafer beetles, Asiatic garden beetle. These larvae hatch from their eggs in August and start eating the roots the grass in your lawn, left untreated grubs…

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Grass Seed that Works

Grass Seed that Works

Every season we get calls from people sharing their lawn care stories. Many of these stories are about how they planted new grass seed, it germinated and then died. Other stories are about the seed never grows at all or the seeding grows in patchy and thin. Why are our lawns so much more green…

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Spring Tips

Early Spring Lawn Tips

Warm weather sparks spring activity on lawns. Here are a few tips to get your lawn off to a great start this spring: Be gentle on the lawn, A light raking of the sticks, twigs, acorns is all that is needed. There is no need to rake your lawn very briskly. A hard brisk raking…

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before and after green lawn care

Greener Grass Trick

Landscaper uses this simple trick to keep the GRASS GREENER If you ever wanted a greener lawn with fewer weeds, less fertilizer and less water then this simple trick is for you. Best of all its free! It’s so simple most people don’t believe it until they see it for themselves. When mowing your lawn…

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Must-do Lawn Secrets

Final Fertilizer Application Fall lawn care, with winter fast approaching you must act now. Give your lawn one more application of fertilizer. This fall fertilizer application builds roots and thickens your lawn. This is the most important application of the season! Lime Sweeten your soil with an application of pelletized lime. This lime application adjust…

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Lawn Renovation

Total Lawn Renovation

If your lawn is full of problem grasses or weeds, then a complete renovation is your best option. Total renovation is the best way to start an organic program. Here we kill off your existing lawn and replant with modern drought tolerant, pest resistant grasses that look greener and stand up better to wear and…

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