Fertilawn

10/21/2025

Annual Fall Best Practices post- water you lawn and mulch your leaves!

Your lawn should go into winter dormancy well watered and thriving. Just like humans, we don't like to go to bed hungry or thirsty.

Mulching leaves is super beneficial for the soil, if you can mulch without smothering the lawn, do it. Even if that means running over the lawn a couple times a week. It also has the benefit of being MUCH easier then raking or blowing into piles.

09/30/2025

Milow for last week, looks good Curt!

08/29/2025

Our M.I.L.O.W (most impressive lawn of the week)

Each week our technicians can take pictures of their lawns that they feel are impressive. That could be a distinct difference from the neighbor (w**ds, crabgrass etc) Awesome color, or anything that they deem impressive!

This week goes to Jake- A neighboring lawn full of foxtail with a hard line where ours starts (and has none!) Nice Jake!

08/18/2025

Can you guess which lawn is ours?

Creeping Charlie is tough, and takes time, but Curt has been putting in some work keeping it at bay!

06/24/2025

PSA- If you seeded this spring, don't forget to water DURING the day.

This is new grass, all it took is 1 day to fry out. It gets watered Am and PM, but not during the heat of the day at all. Those brown areas aren't coming back!

05/23/2025

Lawn look dead in spots from the last few weeks? Straw or almost orange in color?

Drastic changes in temps and moisture is causing a TON of Ascochyta Leaf Blight recently. No need to worry, water and mow properly, it will come back!

Ascochyta leaf blight cause large irregular patches of turf to quickly turn straw-brown in color and appear dead.  From a distance, the symptoms resemble drought stress. The difference is that the symptoms of Ascochyta may appear quickly or overnight.  Infected leaves present a bleached tip dieba...

05/09/2025

NOT GRUBS!

While there is a HUGE issue with grubs in many areas, it's not always the case.
We had a customer call, pretty hot, saying their lawn had grubs. She had the city of Richfield as well as her mower tell her she had grubs. According to them, they "checked" and found them. We have done our grub application for her the last 3 years. This is a picture of her lawn.

We checked, on our hands and knees, extensively for anything that even resembled grub damage (heads up, this picture of said customrer does NOT resemble grub damage at all, grub damage is a large (2-3ft +)bare or brown spot, NOT brown speckled throughout the lawn like shown).

No grubs, not a single piece of turf that was able to easily pull up. A big relief.

Moral of the story- not everything is grubs! Just because someone says you have grubs due to brown areas, you need to actually check and pull on those areas to find them!

05/01/2025

Common question we get asked is what and where should I get seed. We get our custom blended mixes from these guys, they're the best! https://twincityseed.com/
Twin City Seed Company

seed the difference We take pride in your lawn. While big-box retail seed brands often contain fillers, contaminants, and w**d seeds in their products, at Twin City Seed, we are committed to creating the highest quality products to thrive in any lawn. Our team of turfgrass experts won’t accept any...

04/30/2025

Got dandelions? Here's a cool fact.

Dandelions have 2 main bloom cycles. The very first bloom cycle are dandelions from last fall (or summer) that have matured and are now blooming.
In about 3-4 weeks you will have another flush of dandelion flowers, these dandelions are from this season.
This is the main reason the most important w**d control you do is in the early fall.

04/12/2025

Some key points in what your seeing in your lawn right now.

The snow is melting but what the heck is all this lawn damage from? Grubs, Snow Mold, Voles, and Dog Spots could be the culprit.

04/06/2025

Our Referral Champion- Congrats to J. Van Ornum in Bloomington for referring the most people in 2024!

They will be getting their services comped for 2025 as well as their normal $40 referral credit. Thank you!

09/19/2024

Why Aerate and Seed?

This is a perfect example. The yard on the left is an older lawn, the right is a newer lawn with our seed. Same amount of water (none).

Note how much better newer grass holds up to heat and drought. Newer grass varieties have better color, disease tolerances and better heat/drought tolerance.