Tips for Watering the Lawn :: Overseeding and Watering Grass Seed
If you've read my post on my visit to Oregon and the NexGen Research Center, you know, then, just how important conserving water is these days. And … if you're a red-blooded...
Tag Archives: Landscaping
Building Moxie Tours John Deere Horicon Works
I had the opportunity for a brief visit and tour of Horicon Works last week. Located about a 45-minute ride north east of Madison, WI in the Horicon Marsh, Horicon Works has...
How to Grow a Healthy Lawn :: 5 Secrets to a Beautiful Lawn
How you seed can be broken into one of three areas, and which circumstance you encounter often dictates what type of product you need. We’ll call these areas: new seeding, re-seeding (or...
How to Prepare to Install an Irrigation System
I don’t know about you, but I dream of the day when I no longer need to move my sprinkler (attached to a hose) across my lawn in order to properly water...
Ready, Set, MOW! :: Mower Maintenance with John Deere
As the days get warmer and longer, lawn care will soon be part of the weekly routine. To ensure you’re spending more time enjoying your weekend, make sure you’re taking good care...
Tips for Designing a Backyard Pond :: Building a Luxury Landscape
When designing a backyard pond your goal should be to create a pond that looks like it has always existed in the landscape; incorporating natural, flowing lines with a variety of rock...
Keys to a Great Spring :: How to Prep a Lawn for Winter
The type of care your lawn requires will depend greatly on where you live. In Florida, you may very well continue to mow your lawn throughout the year, but in Minnesota, your...
Four (Now That the Kids Are) Back to School Fall Project Ideas :: Organize, Paint & Prep for Winter
Shhhh. Hear that? It’s quiet right? That’s the sound of the kids back at school. Playtime is over and it’s nose to grindstone for everyone. Happily, the heat is slowly releasing its...
Seeding a New Lawn :: My Own Personal Growth
This front yard, when the home was purchased, had a rather medium-sized and unruly tree smack dab in the middle of it. In an effort to make the home more curb-appealing, Mrs....
Six Strategies for Small Yard Landscaping :: Plan, Plant & Stay Open
Limited outdoor space doesn’t have to limit your outdoor enjoyment. With a little planning and some creative small-backyard landscaping ideas, you can transform your space into a relaxing, functional oasis that pleases...
Building Moxie is Growing Grass with Pennington Smart Seed :: Experiment & Results
My results it seems are pretty consistent with those that I got in our trial, our growing experiment while in Oregon with Pennington Seed. But as I ramp up to essentially seed...
Installing Stone Border Edging for a Garden & Patching Grass with a Lawn Repair Product
Now, it would have been lovely not to have disturbed the grass’s edge while installing this border. But of course that was not happening. I needed soil both behind and in front...