If your lawn isn’t growing the way you’d like it to this spring–or if you notice there are an unusually high amount of birds and other animals digging up your lawn–chances are, you have a pest problem. While Hartford, CT is a great city to live in if you enjoy […]
Summer heat can affect the appearance and condition of your lawn in Hartford, CT. Because it’s zoned for Zone 7, the planting season for grass is in the early spring and in the fall when the temperatures are much cooler. This is where the name “cool season” grass types come […]
In Connecticut, we have to make the most of our scant summer months by planting cold-hardy, attractive grasses. These grasses must be both drought and moisture tolerant, due to unpredictable weather patterns and varying levels of precipitation. Grasses are divided into two categories: cool and warm season grasses. Cool season […]
Spring in Hartford, CT is a tentative prospect. It can be drastically unpredictable, with April blizzards followed quickly by record-breaking high temperatures. Ice and snow might freeze and thaw completely just in time for more snow to fall, leading to great difficulty in predicting how to prepare your lawn for […]
In the Northeast, our gardens toe a delicate line of too much and too little moisture. Unlike gardeners in the Southwest or Northwest, we can rarely predict rainfall and, as a result, must be careful about overwatering or underwatering our lawns. Frequent, shallow watering can result in the growth of […]