Mulch Those Fall Leaves Back Onto the Lawn
Mulching Your Leaves Back Onto the Lawn May Reduce Your Weeds Next Spring ...
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Miracle Gro Employee Faces 90-Day Sentence in Pesticide Scandal
A former Miracle Gro employee is sentenced to 90 days in a pesticide labeling scandal ...
Read more ›New Report: Pesticides Putting Children’s Future in Jeopardy
Our children's health and intellectual capacity are being compromised by pesticide exposure, according to an alarming new report ...
Read more ›Spray Then Play? Durango Parents Say No Way and Cancel Soccer Games
The western community of Durango, Colorado, cancels youth soccer games after a pesticide protest. ...
Read more ›America’s Most Progressive Campus: Colorado Goes Truly Green on its Lawns
BOULDER, CO. — Showcasing what is likely the largest compost tea project of its kind anywhere in the nation on Thursday, Oct. 4, the lead turfgrass manager at the University of Colorado offered a behind-the-scenes look at what makes his 70-plus acres of grass truly green. The compost tea, a biologically active liquid — that some in academia claim is just brown water — is sprayed through the entire campus sp ...
Read more ›Switching to Organics: The 12-Step Manifesto
Are you thinking about transitioning to organic landscape management, but aren't sure how? This 12-Step program gives you plenty to think about first. ...
Read more ›Fall Lawn Tasks: Here’s the Primer
In the northern half of the nation, the days are still warm, the nights are cool and Mother Nature usually provides plenty of rain. The humidity drops, biting insects take a break and garden centers start putting many products on sale. ...
Read more ›Tag, Toss & Run: ‘What a Cool Little Book!’
Tag, Toss & Run, co-authored by SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey, earns two stellar reviews from Booklist . . . ...
Read more ›University of Arizona Embraces Organic Lawn Care
TUCSON, AZ — As a turf manager at multiple professional levels including minor league baseball, the summer Olympics and numerous college stadiums, Matt Anderson admitted he rolled his eyes at the organic lawn care trials he inherited when he took over the grounds at the University of Arizona last January. ...
Read more ›The Augusta Syndrome: 45 Years Later, Is Golf the Environment’s Worst Nightmare?
Few industries around the world can point to a single weekend as the date of their origin. Sure, lawn care has been around ever since kings ordered peasants to scythe their meadows for comfortable strolling, but in terms of the modern lawn care industry it really all began during the second weekend of April of 1967 — the first time the Masters golf tournament was broadcast live to America in full technicolor green. ...
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