When the fall season rolls around, there are two topics on everyone's minds: aeration and overseeding. Find out why now is the time to do these applications and the answers to some frequently asked questions.

What should we know about fall herbicide treatments? How can you save time? What products could you use? We sat down with Sales and Product Development Manager, Mark Sybouts, to learn more. Why are fall herbicide treatments effective against broadleaf weeds? In the fall, the cold weather and shorter days trigger most of the perennial […]

Are you a pro at spreading fertilizer? Check your knowledge of the do's and don'ts of granule fertilizer applications.

Learn how to calibrate your sprayer with this step-by-step video.

The first 7 months of 2018 have seen the most dynamic freight market in recent history. In this post, we would like to explain what's going on in the market and how it may affect you.

Over the past week, our sales team has fielded numerous calls of entire lawns turning brown fairly rapidly that others simply diagnosed as drought stress. Upon closer investigation, we discovered that we are in the midst of an armyworm outbreak!

Soil compaction is a concern on nearly all maintained turf, including golf course greens, tees and fairways, sports fields, and heavily trafficked areas in public or residential areas. Compaction occurs as soil particles press together tightly, and soil structure and available pore space for air and water are reduced.

Meet Dan Jennings and Brent Amann, the newest sports turf sales representatives, in our latest employee spotlight.

Foliar-Pak's Ultimate Ornamental Package (UOP) can increase profits as well as improve your clients' summer colors. If you’re not offering annual flower installations and/or maintenance, you're missing out on a growing trend in the landscape.

Pythium/damping off mostly occurs when the nighttime temps and relative humidity add up to at least 150. It is an incredibly devastating disease and progresses rapidly, especially under these conditions. I recognize that we cannot always avoid installing lawns when it is hot/humid, but here are a few steps you can take to help mitigate your risk:

Meet Keith Blondell- a driver for our Elk Grove Village, Illinois, location and avid kayak fisherman in our latest employee spotlight.

After poison ivy delivers its itchy attack, you may be wondering how to rid yourself of this bothersome plant. Find out the solution to get the ultimate revenge.

Check your knowledge of the do's and don'ts of summer mowing and watering.

If you are on a two-year cycle for the dreaded emerald ash borer, is this the year you need to re-treat your ash trees?

We have compiled the differences between henbit and deadnettle to make identifying them easier this spring.

Adding pond management services to your business not only enhances the property of your customers but is a great source of renewable business revenue for you.

With 20 locations and a presence in 10 states, we may seem like a large company, but we pride ourselves in preserving the small company feel that we had when we first started in 2001.

One of the most frequently asked questions and sources of confusion we encounter surround the topic of seeding and use of crabgrass control.

It’s an exciting time of the year—temperatures are increasing, birds are coming back north, and trees are thinking about producing leaves. For some trees though, producing leaves with a normal level of chlorophyll (the pigment that gives leaves their green color) can be very difficult. We have two things to blame: soil pH and plant genetics.

Find out how to wake up your customers' landscape beds for spring with these products and best practices.

Avoid losing sales with eight pricing strategies.

If you are considering a career in the turf industry, there may be more options than you think.

With drought conditions going back to last year, and the combination of extreme cold we've seen recently with relatively little snow cover throughout much of the Midwest, athletic field managers or anyone who maintains Bermuda have been growing a bit nervous about how their turf will wake up come spring. Should lawn care operators share their concern for cool season turf?

Maintaining healthy turf and ornamental beds that are close to parking lots and roads can be difficult when ice melt and road salt are used in the winter. Find out what you can do to offset the harmful effects of salt and ice melt.

Indianapolis news channel RTV6 interviewed Sales and Product Development Manager Mark Sybouts about the differences between salt and ice melt and the best practices when using these products. Watch the segment to learn more.

Learn the answers to the 3 biggest myths about ice melt.

Are you using liquid ice melt for commercial snow and ice management? If not, you are missing out on a valuable tool with lots of advantages.

The line, “if you build it, they will come” is well known from the movie Field of Dreams. I like to apply a variation of this line to my methodology for growing healthy turf. If you build healthy soil (“it”) then what “comes” of this practice is healthy turf. Or in other words, “If you build it, then it will come.”

What do you talk about when you don't know what to talk about? Well, the weather of course. So, let's talk about the weather. For something we have no control over, it consumes a lot of our attention.

Up here in my neck of the woods, technically it might be the armpit of the woods (geographically speaking), but I digress. Anyhow, around here in the Midwest, many of us will be spraying later than usual this season, which means there will be considerably more cool weather herbicide applications than in a typical fall. […]

Advanced Turf Solutions and Hittle Landscaping worked together to make sure a larger retailer's lawn was ready for opening day.

We have recently added four new sales representatives to our team in the lawn and landscape, golf, and sports turf markets.

We have outgrown our space in Hilliard, Ohio, and are constructing a new building. In the meantime, we have relocated to an interim warehouse to better serve your needs.

Preparing turf for winter during the fall months will help it recover and come back thick, green, and healthy next spring.

Despite difficult weather, you can still prepare your turf for winter with these tips.

To know “what is going on in the industry,” volunteer at these organizations, especially the younger generation! See firsthand how you can make a difference! Below is a list of a few of the organizations in the Midwest. Be sure to search online or ask your colleagues about additional organizations for your profession.

We are proud to announce that two of our very own, Stuart Cagle and Jamie Mehringer, were among the recipients of the 2017 Midwest Regional Turf Foundation’s Award of Achievement. The Midwest Regional Turf Foundation is an organization that supports turf research and education at Purdue University for the advancement of the turfgrass industry. Each year since […]

Did you know that Detroit was the first city to have a concrete highway? Of course, it was only one mile on Woodward Avenue, but a small start can lead to something great. It led to Michigan being the first in many transportation innovations like superhighways and painted road centerlines. For us, we are excited […]

Turf that lacks color, density, and general good health may benefit from a recovery program.

As we wind down another summer, we begin to see how much of our turf damage is related to the summer weather, and that which leaves us looking for another explanation. Cooler days and nights will provide our landscapes with some much-needed relief and recovery; however, most of us will experience some turf that continues to look like mid-August.