Lawn & Landscape Articles

Avoid losing sales with eight pricing strategies from Advanced Turf Solutions.

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.

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…