Spring has sprung and the warmer weather and blue skies always gets people out into their yards to poke around in their yards and start their spring planting. When they turn over their soil they often will find grubs which concerns them and causes a lot of calls and emails to come into Village Green. […]
I’ve lost count how many times that question has been asked the past few weeks by our customers. Our weather has been extremely mild this winter. We’ve had a few cold snaps, but for the most part we’ve had a lot warms days. More recently we’ve had some extremely warm days (we hit 92 last […]
Now is the time to update your sprinkler system to make sure you are getting adequate water coverage for your lawn and landscape in North Texas this spring. How much watering is enough water in spring? In the spring your soil loses about 1/2 the water it loses in the summer. To help illustrate, imagine […]
Who doesn’t love spring?!? Warm weather, blooming flowers, bright-green leaves bursting from trees, and usually more rain in North Texas. Unfortunately some of these conditions can also bring on brown patch (which is a nasty little fungus that thrives in warm, damp conditions.) Brown patch is pretty easy to diagnose (you’ll have ugly brown spots […]
This is the time of the year when many of your neighbors will butcher their poor crepe myrtles in an effort to ‘prune’ them for the upcoming growing season. I’m amazed at how many people still believe they need to chop their crepe myrtles back at this time of the year to promote extra blooms […]
I don’t want to jinx us with only four weeks left until the first day of spring, but this winter has been one of our warmest in recent years. It’s been so warm in fact that many of our customers are calling us and asking if they should be following our winter watering schedule. The […]
If you are wondering why lawn aeration is so important, look no further than our infamous North Texas clay soil. It is made up tiny particles that compact over time. The longer you go without aerating your lawn the more they compact. This is bad for your lawn because it makes it hard to take […]
A new year, a new year landscape spotlight! And today’s is perfect. Like 2017, which is wide open in front of us, Ms. J’s home in Frisco, Texas was the very definition of a ‘wide open space.’ Ms. J called us soon after moving into her newly built home for some recommendations on what kind […]
The past week I’ve had time in the office to answer many fall related questions that I think would benefit all our customers. I hope you find the answers to these common fall questions helpful! What should I do with the leaves on my lawn and landscape? Short answer is that leaves left on your […]
Each year there’s a surefire way I can tell fall has arrived in North Texas beyond shorter days and the cooler night-time temperatures. 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 […]