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If you're about to grab a "winterizer" bag this month, read the back before the front.The front is marketing. The three ...
10/08/2026

If you're about to grab a "winterizer" bag this month, read the back before the front.

The front is marketing. The three numbers on the back are the whole story.

They're always in the same order: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, as a percentage of the bag's weight. Quick math: on a 50-pound bag, cut each number in half. A 24-0-12 bag has 12 pounds of nitrogen, zero phosphorus, and 6 pounds of potassium. See a 0 in the middle? That's on purpose. In Minnesota, it's illegal to put phosphorus on a lawn that doesn't need it, because it washes into lakes and feeds algae. Most metro soils already have plenty. The exceptions are a soil test that says you need it, or new seed. Winterizers are usually heavy on nitrogen and potassium. University of Minnesota Extension says the research is mixed on whether that extra potassium actually prevents winter damage. If your lawn isn't low on potassium, it may not do much.

So before you pay extra for the word "winterizer," check what's actually in the bag.

The best review a lawn company can get isn't "my lawn looks great."It's "they did what they said they'd do."Because that...
10/07/2026

The best review a lawn company can get isn't "my lawn looks great."

It's "they did what they said they'd do."

Because that's the part people get burned on. No-shows. Treatments you never see happen. Calls that don't get returned. Most people who've switched lawn companies didn't switch because of the grass. They switched because nobody told them what was going on.

So when a Medina homeowner sent us this, it meant a lot:

"Everything that was promised was completed and met or exceeded expectations. Happy with the service and the communication was great." – Joseph D., Medina

Green grass is the goal. Doing what we said, and telling you about it, is how we get there.

What matters more to you in a lawn company: the results, or knowing what's going on?

People usually ask us: "Can I put my grill charcoal on the lawn?"The better question is actually: "What's in the charcoa...
10/06/2026

People usually ask us: "Can I put my grill charcoal on the lawn?"

The better question is actually: "What's in the charcoal?"

Because that's the whole answer. Most grilling briquettes are made with things like coal, peat and petroleum products. Not something to spread on your grass.

Biochar is a different story. It's made from plant waste like corncobs, with nothing synthetic added, and it helps nutrients stay in the soil where roots can reach them.

Same word. Very different stuff.

What's a lawn "hack" you've heard that you still aren't sure about? Drop it below and we'll give you the straight answer.

That bare ring around your tree? Let's just say it's not fooling everyone.Some neighbors will assume it's a mulch bed yo...
10/05/2026

That bare ring around your tree? Let's just say it's not fooling everyone.

Some neighbors will assume it's a mulch bed you haven't finished. The rest know it's the spot where grass gave up.

Here's why it happens. Tree roots sit in the top foot and a half of soil, competing with your grass for water and nutrients. Add shade, then add the 6th-driest August in 132 years, and the grass under that tree didn't stand a chance.

And if you've been patching it with regular seed, that's part of the problem. Most mixes are heavy on Kentucky bluegrass, which University of Minnesota Extension says "may not grow well in shade."

Easy: keep leaves from piling up on it, and mow a little higher in the shade

Medium: dormant seed a shade mix heavy on fine fescue this November

Hard: if nothing ever holds, make it a real bed with hostas, ferns or astilbe. Then the neighbors are right.

Most of the bare rings we see this time of year can still be grass again by spring. Is yours worth saving, or is it bed time?

We spun the wheel. One name. One FREE season of our Performance Program for next year.Thank you to everyone who stopped ...
10/04/2026

We spun the wheel.

One name. One FREE season of our Performance Program for next year.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at Loretto Fun Fest and dropped your name in the drawing box. It was great meeting so many neighbors.

Watch the spin in the comments to see who won 👇

If you walked outside on a sunny afternoon this week, you saw them. Boxelder bugs, all over the siding, the deck, the wi...
10/04/2026

If you walked outside on a sunny afternoon this week, you saw them. Boxelder bugs, all over the siding, the deck, the window frames.

Here's what's going on, and why this week matters.

Why now: nights are getting colder, so boxelder bugs are hunting for somewhere warm to spend the winter. They pile onto the south and west sides of houses because those walls hold the afternoon sun.

What they're doing: probing for gaps. A gap as small as 1mm around a window frame, a siding seam or the foundation line is enough.

What happens if they get in: they go quiet in your walls, then wake up when the furnace kicks on in January. That's when you find them on the inside of your windows.

Why there are so many: this was the Twin Cities' 14th-warmest September in 153 years, 3.5 degrees above normal. Warm falls keep them active longer.

The good news: University of Minnesota Extension says they don't damage the house or spread disease. They just stain, smell when you squish them, and show up by the hundreds.

This weekend: walk the sunny sides of your house. Check door sweeps, siding seams, and anywhere pipes or wires go through the wall.

Are they on your house yet?

You can see a property line like this from a block away.And you're not the only one looking. A national survey found abo...
10/01/2026

You can see a property line like this from a block away.

And you're not the only one looking. A national survey found about half of homeowners regularly compare their place to the neighbors'. Most people just don't say it out loud.

Here's what's actually happening at that line. Same weather on both sides. Same sun. Same street. Nobody planted a different lawn over there.

What's different is the last twelve months: when each side got fed, how high it was mowed, whether anyone paid attention in the fall. The weather doesn't make that line. Timing does.

Be honest. When you pull into the driveway, do you look at your lawn first, or theirs?

Last fall, a Medina neighbor found a tick on his dog after an afternoon of clearing brush along the tree line.His first ...
09/30/2026

Last fall, a Medina neighbor found a tick on his dog after an afternoon of clearing brush along the tree line.

His first thought: "Isn't it too late in the year for this?"

A lot of people think so. The young ticks are out in late spring and early summer, and that's when everyone's paying attention.

But adult deer ticks come back in the fall. The Minnesota Department of Health says they're typically active again by the end of September and through October, until it freezes or snow covers the ground. Deer ticks are the ones that can carry Lyme disease.

They don't hang out in the middle of your lawn. They wait on low plants in the brush, the woods and the leaf litter along the edges. That's exactly where the dog likes to sniff.

If your dog runs the back edge of the yard, this is a good month to keep checking him when he comes in.

If you did everything right and crabgrass still took over, here's the part nobody told you.Crabgrass preventer works in ...
09/29/2026

If you did everything right and crabgrass still took over, here's the part nobody told you.

Crabgrass preventer works in about 95% of Minnesota summers. It builds a barrier in the soil before the seeds sprout. But barriers break down faster in extreme heat, and this summer behaved more like Phoenix than Minnesota. Hennepin County had its 6th-driest August in 132 years, 2.84 inches below normal.

So the barrier gave out early. Crabgrass and foxtail came through.

Then came the second problem. In a drought, weeds close their pores to hold onto water. A spray has to get inside the plant to work, and it couldn't. That's why it looked like nothing you sprayed did anything.

Meanwhile, your trees were competing with your grass for the little moisture left in the topsoil.

The recent rain helped. We're at 19.04" for the year, still below normal, and 5.1" behind since January.

Here's the upside: soil's around 60°F now, perfect for grass to recover. Keep watering, keep mowing (lowering the deck a little each time), and any bare spots are a job for November dormant seeding.

Did crabgrass or foxtail show up in your yard this year?

When "something ate my lawn over the winter" turns out to be a two-minute fix in October.Those trails you find in spring...
09/28/2026

When "something ate my lawn over the winter" turns out to be a two-minute fix in October.

Those trails you find in spring come from voles. They spend the winter under the snow, nesting in whatever cover the lawn gives them.

The less cover, the less reason to move in. So the fix isn't a spring project. It's the last couple of mows of the year, cut a little shorter than usual.

That's it. That's most of it.

If they show up anyway:
🟢 Easy: rake out the damage
🟡 Medium: fertilize to speed recovery
🔴 Hard: aerate and seed the trails

Next time you mow, drop the deck a notch. Future you, in April, says thanks.

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