If you’re tired of having to sweep up those messy leaves, cut grass, twigs, or dead flowers all over your lawn or backyard, relax. Whether you want to spruce up your garden or keep your lawn looking neat, the Toro electric leaf blower makes cleaning up your yard less of a hassle at a very [...]

After I first moved into my home and invested in a good lawnmower, I made the mistake of not preparing the mower for the winter.  As a result, when I went to start using it in the spring the mower would no longer work correctly.  I called a lawnmower repair specialist who explained my mistake.  [...]

Your lawn sprinkler system is one of the most important parts of keeping your yard looking beautiful, but during the winter you could end up facing big problems with that system if you haven’t taken the proper precautions. Thankfully, I didn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way. A friend of ours installed a [...]

When my family moved into this home, we knew we wanted a beautiful garden in the spring. In fact, my wife specifically asked for tulips. What neither of us realized when we tried to plant tulips that spring was that you can’t plant spring bulbs in the spring. Strangely enough, early spring bulbs need to [...]

Fall lawn care may not require quite as much effort as in the spring or summer, but if you want to keep your grass looking healthy and beautiful now is not the time to slack off. The first autumn I spent in my current home I made that mistake and ended up regretting it so [...]

Lawn mowers come in a wide variety of styles and prices today so trying to find the right machine for your yard care needs can be a real challenge. Trust me, I’ve been there. The owners of our home left behind a pathetic mower which I used a couple of times then decided to replace [...]

A lawn sprinkler is a necessity if you want to have a beautiful yard, but you need to have the right sprinkler for the job. I found this out the hard way. When my family purchased our home, the lawn was currently being watered by sprinkler hoses. The hoses were stretched across the lawn, and [...]

Lawn fertilizers are essential for a perfect lush yard. Have you put down your fall application yet? I’m planning to apply my fertilizer this weekend. Getting up to speed, I must admit that this is the first year I’ve handled my lawn maintenance entirely myself. When I moved into my home, the lawn and landscaping [...]

The word “organic” seems to be increasingly common in our local grocery stores, but I first encountered it when I was beginning to care for my family’s lawn after we purchased our new home a few years ago. Back then, all I knew about taking care of my lawn was that I had to mow [...]