If you’d like to keep bugs out of your home this winter, fall is the time to establish a bug border with perimeter pest control. Your home is like a nice cozy bed and breakfast for pests trying to escape winter’s cold. That’s why autumn is one of their favorite times to invade your home. Temperatures will be dropping, especially at night, and spiders, roaches, ants, beetles and more will all be drawn to your home’s foundation, windows, and doors where the heat calls to them like a cinnamon roll under the nose of a hungry traveler. If you don’t want your home to become a bug B&B, take actio ..read more

As a homeowner, you probably pay a lot more attention to your lawn than you do your trees and shrubs. Usually, that’s okay. Because they have larger root systems, they aren’t as susceptible to drought…unless it’s long-term. Unfortunately, that’s what we’ve experienced here in the Kansas City area and we are starting to see signs of drought stress showing up in trees and shrubs – especially evergreens.  Why Evergreens in KC Are Suffering from Drought We’ve had several seasons in a row of dry winters and super hot summers. Normally, the evergreens can bounce back after a bad season or two ..read more

At Heritage Lawns and Irrigation, with our exclusive Eco-Pride system, we take a different approach to lawn care. While most lawn care companies start with the grass and work their way down, we start with the soil and work our way up. It’s a fundamental difference that creates a healthier, thicker, greener lawn. Eco-Pride lawn care – the long-term solution to weeds.  It All Starts with the Soil Soil is the determining factor in your lawn’s appearance. If your soil is lacking, so is your grass. Rich, balanced soil creates a thick, healthy lawn. If you want to get rid of weeds, pests, and d ..read more

If you’ve ever dreamed of having the kind of lawn that looks like it belongs on the front of a magazine, you’re going to love what we tell you about our Smart Sprinkler Management technology. Keeping your lawn looking good all through the brutal Kansas City summer will seem like child’s play with this state-of-the-art irrigation management tool.  Benefits of Smart Sprinkler System There are a lot of benefits, so here’s a little summary before we dive into the details: Wi-Fi Control (an app on your phone gives you control from anywhere) Moisture Sensors (let your lawn water itself when it ..read more

Here in Kansas City, we see the same tree and shrub problems season after season, so we asked Jason Clarkson, our Lawn Director, to tell us what to look for in our yards this summer. Many times, if you catch problems early, you can nip them in the bud and that may be the difference between saving a plant or watching it die. At the very least, you won’t have to deal with ugly plants for a season while they recover from whatever ails them. He’s taken the most common problems and broken them down into three basic categories – insects, diseases, and environmental issues: Insects Bagworms Japanese ..read more

There are a lot of lawn care companies to choose from in Kansas City, and to be honest, most of them are pretty much the same. You have your “lawn application companies” who pull up, spray chemicals on your lawn and leave (not the most personal or effective method) and you have “lawn service companies” who focus on mostly basic fertilizing and weed control. Unfortunately, neither of these types of lawn care companies make your lawn healthier. At Heritage, with our Eco-Pride program, our main goal is to make your lawn healthy because a healthy lawn is a better, more resilient lawn that will loo ..read more

At Heritage Lawns and Irrigation, we have been making Kansas City lawns beautiful since 1995. But the way we do it is a little different from the rest of the pack. We use our exclusive Eco-Pride system because we’re in lawn care for the long term. There are three things that set our Eco-Pride system apart from all other lawn service companies: We are earth-friendly  We provide personal lawn coaches We back our services with our Greenback Guarantee  What Is a Personal Lawn Coach? Not sure who’s been working on your lawn, or even worse, what they’re doing to it? Does someone just sho ..read more

At Heritage Lawns & Irrigation, we do things differently. While most lawn care companies treat the symptoms of poor lawns – weeds, drought, disease, insects, fungus, etc., we go right to the source of the problem – the soil. That’s the main difference between Heritage Lawns and all of the others. They start with the weeds and work their way down. We start with the soil and work our way up. Soil Balance  When we treat a lawn, our goal is to create a healthy lawn that naturally resists all of those typical problems. We always start with the soil. Soil is the determining factor in your l ..read more

In a nutshell, there are 5 reasons you are still dealing with weeds in your lawn: Your Soil Your Seed Your Mowing Your Watering Thin Grass At Heritage Lawns and Irrigation, we understand how frustrating it can be when you try to do everything right – use a pre-emergent in the spring, fertilize, treat for pests, aerate in the fall – and still end up with weeds in your lawn. We’ve been in the lawn care business for over two decades. In that time, we’ve learned a lot about weeds. We’d like to help. We’ll break down each reason and give you advice on how to get rid of those weeds once and for al ..read more

Have you ever noticed that most of the large, national lawn application companies simply pull up in front of your home and spray fertilizer or weed killer on your lawn at the appropriate time of year, and then they’re gone? Don’t get me wrong, they’re doing what they promised they’d do, but do you really see much difference in your lawn? Probably not. That’s because they treat every lawn the exact same way. It’s a cookie-cutter approach that will keep decent lawns looking decent, but that’s about all you can expect.  Problem Lawns Need Special Care If your lawn is relatively healthy but h ..read more