In the spring time your lawn may seem more lumpy and bumpy than normal. What should you do? Rolling your lawn, Rolling the lawn in the spring with a heavy roller crushes the crown of the grass plant and compacts the top level of the soil making it even more difficult for the lawn the…

The top 3 lawn care trends for 2017 Organic lawn fertilizer- Home owners and professional lawn care Companies continue to use more organic lawn fertilizers and less synthetic lawn fertilizer. Organic lawn fertilizer reduces the chance of fertilizer runoff, with organic fertilizer more fertilizer stays on the lawn where it is needed. Less watering- The…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…