Mulching vs. Bagging Your Leaves This Fall
Nick sent an email and says, ‘should I mulch my leaves, mostly hickory leaves, or bag them with my mower?’ It depends on how many leaves are coming down. So what you don't want [...]
About Fertilizer and When to Fertilize
Talking about those plants and trees and the roots, we talk about watering the roots. You fertilize, you're really putting some fertilizer on the trees and bushes themselves. So when you fertilize, the fertilizer [...]
Trees and Shrubs for Colorful Fall Foliage
Everybody talks about a dogwood tree in the spring. They're like, oh, I love the pink and the white dogwoods. But the fall foliage on dogwoods is spectacular. It is one of the prettiest [...]
Grass Seeding This Fall & What Seed to Get
I want to talk about grass seeding, it's the time of year. The rain is what we've been waiting on. And anybody that's done lawn repair in the last several weeks, if it wasn't [...]
Re-Seeding Your Lawn and Adding Straw
We're looking at reseeding now that it's getting cooler. I mean, if we get some rain or rain in the forecast, we can call for that. And we've had a lot of customers working [...]
Trimming Redbud & Hydrangea, & Killing Off Grass in Pachysandra
It's Ed from Canton. “I have several questions, if you don't mind. I have an eastern redbud, and it had some lower branches on it. Can I trim those off now, or can I [...]
Pondless Ponds Built by Rohr’s
We're constantly changing at the nursery, and we built a brand-new display pond up there at the nursery. When I say display pond, it's more of a display pondless. And what that means is [...]
Using Clay Sand or Lime to Soften Up Grass?
Clay Sand We've got Roger in Canton who asks, “I have clay sand. Can clay sand put down on dry grass to help soften it up at all? Can you use lime as [...]
Arborvitae Landscaping Opinions for Front of House
We have a question here from a reader - “You were talking about arborvitae. It reminded me, I had planted those at one of my other houses I lived at and I really love [...]
Mowing and Seeding Your Lawn in September
I know a lot of people are just trying to clean up the yard. Well, we're coming into a time of year where you can finally address the grass issue as we continue to [...]
