Spring is the time to prepare your lawn for a successful growing season. This is when to start spring lawn care, weed prevention, fertilization, watering, mowing, and more to get that lush, green lawn you want in the summer months. Examine Your Lawn Before getting your lawn ready for the spring growing season, you need to take into account the current condition of your lawn.  The lawn care tasks and products you use will depend on your lawn’s: Grass type: Different grass types have different needs, so make sure you know what type of grass you have and the specific care it needs. Soil typ ..read more

ExperiGreen Summer Lawn Care Tips [Infographic] The Best Summer Lawn Care Tips Are you wondering what is the best tips and tricks to keep your lawn perfect for summer? Here at ExperiGreen, we are always researching the best strategies so you can have your perfect lawn. Below, we have provided our Infographic Summer Lawn Care Tips, that focus on the following:  Watering Mowing Fertilizing Clipping Grub Control That way you can have the best lawn in the neighborhood.   Call Us Today! (844) 349-5070  Join Our Free Lawn Care Newsletter Stay Up to Date With The Latest New ..read more

ExperiGreen Ash Tree Anthracnose – Is It A Serious Threat To Your Ash Trees? Is Anthracnose A Serious Threat To Your Ash Tree? How to Identify Anthracnose Have you spotted irregularly shaped, water-soaked-looking blotches on your Ash shade trees? Not sure what is happening. Is it the ubiquitous Emerald Ash Borer? Is it a disease? Most likely, you are seeing Ash Anthracnose disease [Plagiostoma fraxini]. Each spring, mainly in the Midwest, anthracnose is active to some degree. During the cool, damp spring period, as the host Ash trees are undergoing leaf emergence, disease activity takes pl ..read more

ExperiGreen Landscaping & Lawns Adds Value Landscaping & Lawns Adds Value To Your Property If you are a typical American, you either have or will move several times in your lifetime. And, when you do decide it’s time to sell your home, you’ll want the most money possible from the sale. Chances are, every additional dollar you get will be needed for your next home purchase! Over the years, home sellers have learned that attracting motivated buyers can be more successful if your property is well landscaped. Recent realtor figures conservatively estimate that curb appeal ..read more

ExperiGreen Fall Liquid Aeration And Seeding Time To Think About Liquid Aeration & Seeding During the hottest, most stressful months of the growing season, lawns take a real beating. As dry, stressed turf thins out, at times going completely dormant, weeds invade, diseases run rampant and bugs have a field day! Irrigated lawns, where water is guaranteed on a regular basis, do much better, no doubt. Still, most homeowners do not have automatic irrigation systems; and their lawns suffer. As the end of summer looms, one of the best lawn maintenance and recovery procedures available is cor ..read more

ExperiGreen How Your Lawn Will Help You Get Through The ‘Dog Days’ Of Summer How To Get Through The “Dog Days” Of Summer Its summer and, well, it’s darned hot outside. Humid too! With temperatures soaring, the only people really happy about it are the kids splashing in the pool! Most of us are unaware of the serious cooling power of our home lawns. That’s right, the lawn. Temperatures on the lawn can be a full 15 or more degrees lower than surrounding concrete or asphalt surfaces. And, not only do grass lawns lower temperatures, they filter impurities out of the air we breathe ..read more

ExperiGreen Choosing A Lawn Sprinkler What You Need To Know About Watering Your Lawn and Sprinklers Summertime: hot days, humid nights, and the lowest rainfall months in the growing season. If rainfall has waned in your area, leaving lawns dry and brown, water is the solution. Easily over-looked, supplying supplemental water to dry lawns is absolutely necessary to maintain plant color and healthy growth. To avoid dormancy, turf requires approximately 1.5 inches of water per week, every week, in lieu of rainfall. When nature fails us, it’s time to set out the sprinkler or turn on the i ..read more

ExperiGreen Summer Lawn Problems Summer Lawn Problems As summer arrives, lawns across the country begin to show signs of stress. Even the best maintained turf will become stressed as temperatures climb to 90 degrees or more, followed by the same high humidity. As these stressors begin to impact turf growth, tell tale signs appear.  Spotting them is the key to quickly correcting potential problem situations before any serious damage takes place. U What You See The lawn is suddenly darker, a deep blue. Why? To learn the answer, consider how much water the lawn has received ..read more

ExperiGreen Weed Wednesday: Ground Ivy Weed Wednesday: Ground Ivy Happy Weed Wednesday! On the last post for this growing season, we would like to talk about a common perennial weed, that not only doubles as a ground cover but one of the most loathed lawn weeds. You guessed it, Ground Ivy. This well-known weed has many other names most commonly, Creeping Charlie.  It typically is a big nuisance to homeowners when it begins to aggressively grow in your lawn. Ground Ivy In Home Lawns Ground ivy is a perennial weed with square running stems that produce clusters of leaves ..read more

ExperiGreen The Best Fertilizer – Liquid Or Granular Best Lawn Fertilizer: Liquid vs. Granular Fertilizer  First, fertilizer is any material that supplies essential plant nutrients to the lawn. Some materials are sprayed in liquid form, some are spread as dry, granular materials. The key to fertilizer effectiveness is not whether the products are liquid or dry, but what the content of the fertilizer is. Both liquid and dry fertilizers can be very effective if they provide what grass plants need. For decades, it was believed that any fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and pota ..read more