Pest Control Brush Weeds Rubble Clean Up // Part two in our pest prevention series. To control pests through prevention the very best way to start is by clearing your property of the things that encourage pests. Simple, right? Weedy brushy areas are both cover and breeding grounds for pests. Weeds Weeds provide food for [...]
Mowing Options Chemical Mowing Land Management Mowing options chemical mowing // Mowing can be a chore, 10 acres of mowing can take a lot of your valuable time, or a lot of money to hire someone to do it for you. There are alternatives to mowing, even options that might make you a little extra [...]
Lawn And Garden: Less Lawn More Garden // More natural, and native style gardens may offer answers to some of the difficulties facing the homeowner. Traditional lawns require a lot of resources like extra water, fertilizer and pesticides to keep them looking the way we have grown accustomed to seeing them. Good landscape planning using [...]
Land Management Land Maintenance // Large tracts of land can pose problems that the average homeowner may not have thought about before buying property, and leaving it to itself is probably not going to be an option. There are some ways to make the extra size yard work for you though. Bahia Grass Control In [...]
Chemical Trimming // Chemical trimming Spin trimming is a hassle. It is almost never fun, no matter how much or how little there is to be done. Obviously, the less there is to do, the better, but any is enough to leave you feeling irritated. There are some ways to make trimming a less frequent, [...]
Changing Lawn And Landscape Design Native habitats and evolving lawn and landscape design Lawn and landscape design is changing to meet the challenges of new water requirements and a revived interest in native habitats that encourage native wildlife. Traditional lawns Everyone loves a beautiful, freshly cut green lawn, well, almost everyone. More and more people [...]
Building A Home Athletic Field Building a Home Athletic Field // This may appear to be slightly off topic for the homeowner, but we have bumped into it enough to make it a topic for discussion. Every year thousands of kids across the nation sign up with local soccer clubs, and soccer associations. School soccer [...]
Maintenance Checklist Fences Drives Walks Drives, walks and fences are the forgotten parts of property maintenance. They tend to be lost in the shuffle to maintain other parts of the property, and by the time they are noticed, extensive repairs, or complete reconstruction is often needed. The list below should help to create a working [...]
Land Management Mowing Alternatives For Large Acreage In the course of my regular work in land management and property maintenance, I am sometimes called on to solve problems with large acreage. One of the most common occurs when someone new to land management buys a large parcel of land without the awareness of the maintenance [...]
Chemical Mowing Chemical Trimming Chemical Mowing Chemical Trimming Right of Ways Fence Rows Pastures // Chemical right of way and fence row mowing and trimming is one place where chemical treatments work very well, and in most cases, with less environmental impact than mowing. What is chemical mowing and trimming? Chemical mowing and trimming are [...]