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Category: <span>Tips and Resources</span>
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Dog Urine & Your Grass
Dog urine on grass is a common problem for dog owners. The urine from dogs can cause unsightly spots in the lawn and kill grass.
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What Is The Best Height To Cut My Grass? Why?
Caring for your garden can be a lot more complicated that it seems it would be on paper. You have to keep on top of raking leaves in fall, make sure pests and weeds aren’t taking over, make sure you aerate your lawn once a year.
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Lawn Care Tips To Get Rid Of Pest Infestation
When owning a lawn, there are numerous issues that can affect its looks and health. And, one of the most devastating issues individuals can experience is pest infestation. Luckily, there are ways to accommodate this issue.
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Important Summer Lawn Care Tips
Everyone wants to have a beautiful lawn that is the envy of the neighborhood, but a lot of people do not know how to achieve that beautiful, lush, healthy, green lawn during the warm summer months.
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Remarkable Uses Of Oatmeal For Lawn Care And Gardening
Oatmeal is one of the healthiest foods you can include in your diet. It is rich in fiber, antioxidants, and other nutrients. Although it is low in fat and cholesterol, it is one of the most filling foods around. As such, if you're trying to lose weight, as long as you minimize the number of sweetening ingredients you add, you should consider including oatmeal in your daily diet.
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Environmental Benefits of Lawns
Climate is controlled at ground level by turfgrasses as they cool temperatures appreciably, thus working as exterior "air conditioners."
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How Often Should You Be Aerating Your Lawn
Looking after your lawn & making sure it stays fresh and healthy is often easier said than done. From clearing leaves & snow from your lawn in the colder months to fertilizing, mowing and removing weeds, you have to put a lot of work to keep your lawn green.
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How Salt Can Damage Your Lawn
As the winter rolls on and the cold weather sets in, people using salt to deice become a regular sight. Salting may be great for preventing ice from forming on roads or driveways, but you should make sure none of that salt then makes its way onto your lawn.
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Halloween Decoration Ideas
Halloween is just around the corner and it seems that more and more people are getting into the spirit by decorating outside their homes. From graveyard scenes in the yard to skeleton dancers to homemade haunted houses
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Lowering Risk When Using Pesticides
Every morning when we hop into our cars and drive to work, we are taking a risk. Every 9 seconds a person is injured in an automobile collision, every 12½ minutes someone dies,
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Insect control service for the spring
Spring fever is in full swing with the sunny and warm season just around the corner. Everyone is anticipating the regrowth of their grass and the blooming of flowers. The one downfall that comes with springtime however, is insects.
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Beware of the Pesticides Scam!
Phone and email scams happen every year, and every year people get cheated out of a few hundred dollars or worse. And unfortunately, the items being sold range from everything from insurance, medicines, vacations, to even pesticides
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Worst West Nile Virus Season
It is 2013 and we can finally say good-bye to Pennsylvania’s West Nile Virus season. 2012 will be remembered for the early horse detection in March and the record number of positive detections since surveillance started in 2000. Unfortunately for the human victims of West Nile Virus, some may be living with the serious effects of encephalitis for many years.
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Pesticide Use in the West Nile Virus Program
I want to share with everyone a recent development concerning product use in the statewide West Nile Integrated Mosquito Management Program. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has just recently finished efficacy testing on a reduced risk pesticide that is even less toxic than the permethrin products.
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Lawn Care Tip: Sod over Seed
Choosing whether to sod or seed your landscape can be a tough decision. But as with any decision, you should definitely be well-informed as to the benefits of each choice. Sod is a popular choice because of its convenience; however there are other aspects to consider.
