A critical component in a happy and healthy lawn and landscape is proper drainage. Your lawn’s health depends on how well it can retain and drain water. While grass needs the right amount to grow, too much water can impede oxygen uptake, slow metabolic processes and invite root rot. To make matters worse, in North […]
At Village Green a sure sign that spring is near is the arrival of henbit North Texas lawns. And while any sign of spring is at some level is welcome, henbit is a weed. As far as weeds go, henbit is pretty, with a rich green and cute purple flower, but we still don’t like […]
A few weeks ago, my Quick Tip was about the armyworm invasion of North Texas. In today’s Quick Tip I’d like to share a quick update about them, and pass along a funny story. If you read my last Quick Tip, you know that army worms can cause extensive damage to your lawn, but that […]
A new or updated landscape is an investment in time and money which is why I’m often asked which time of the year Village Green recommends. Village Green can install a landscape that will thrive any time of the year. That was born out of necessity since some customers don’t always have the luxury of […]
Now that we are officially into fall I wanted to address crab grass and other weeds you may be seeing in your lawn. Having a great lawn next year starts with how you treat your lawn this fall and winter. The good news about fall is that summer weeds have gone away (or soon will […]
Everything is bigger in Texas, as the saying goes, including our weather. When we have what I call Biblical type weather, think 109 degree heat followed by days with several inches of rain, it is usually following by a Biblical type ‘plague’. A few years back it was grasshoppers, another crickets, and this year has […]
Each year there’s a surefire way I can tell it is fall in North Texas…we start getting calls about brown rings (or patches) in our customer’s lawns. These brown rings are called Brown Patch and is a fungus that attacks St. Augustine in the fall (and spring.) The reason we experience so much Brown Patch […]
While I spend quite a bit of time talking about how to water using spray and rotary heads, we’re seeing more and more drip irrigation systems being installed and I’ve begun getting questions about where they should be used and how long they should be run. Drip systems put water exactly where you want it […]
As I’ve said in many a Quick Tip, your lawn needs three things to thrive: sun, water and food (fertilizer.) If you are doing everything right, but your lawn still looks wrong, you may have chinch bugs. Chinch bugs are bad news. Over the years I’ve seen them cause more lawn damage than any other […]
In my last Quick Tip I gave valuable advice on how to spot drought stress in your lawn (and what could be causing it.) What should you do if your lawn has been under watered?: First, you need to make sure you’ve fixed whatever problem caused the drought stress. Assuming you’ve done that it is […]