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Mark Marino
Should I Fertilize Before or After Rain?
A basic and fundamental piece to any lawn care program is watering and fertilizing lawns. To achieve healthy grass and a healthy lawn, you must feed it and water it – be it with granular ...
What Type of Sand for Lawns? (Leveling + Top Dressing)
Whether you’re a homeowner needing to cover exposed tree roots and fix divots in your lawn or work on golf courses and sports fields, adding sand top dressing to your lawn can improve the leveling ...
How Long Does 2, 4-D Take To Work & Kill Weeds?
2, 4-D, (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) is a selective herbicide that controls and kills a wide range of broadleaf weeds. 2,4-D is often combined as a 2-way, 3-way, or 4-way herbicide, generally mixed with dicamba, MCPP, triclopyr, ...
How To Frame Your Lawn
Ready to learn something new about lawn care? It’s called framing! So what is framing a lawn? Let’s take a look. What is Framing the Lawn? Look at this piece of art… Gorgeous right? Well, ...
Tenacity Herbicide FAQs (The Ultimate Frequently Asked Questions Guide)
I see so many questions about Tenacity herbicide. It’s an awesome and unique chemical to include in your lawn care program – but there are many questions that pop up. Most of which can be ...
How To Treat Leaf Spot Lawn Disease
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS Leaf spots in plants can result from various diseases, all exacerbated by high humidity. To combat them, one of the best cultural practices I continue to tell my customers is regular ...
The 5 Best Grub Control Products for 2023 (Lawn Grub Prevention)
LAWN PHIX PRO PICK After treating hundreds of residential and commercial properties and covering acres upon acres of turf, I can say without hesitation that Acelepryn (liquid and granular) is the best grub-prevention product. It ...
Quinclorac vs. Tenacity – What’s the difference?
While identifying grassy weeds and broadleaf weeds can be a challenge in itself, so can be selecting the right herbicide for the job. There’s a slew of different products and chemicals on the market today ...
Best Insecticides For Lawns (Top Products for 2023)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS I treat more than 40 commercial and residential lawns here in Massachusetts, and nothing causes more havoc to yards or carries more diseases than insects. Surface insects like chinchbugs can destroy ...
How Long Before Tenacity is Rainproof
Tenacity Herbicide is a unique herbicide. Not only can it kill over 40 weeds, including crabgrass and creeping bentgrass, but it also acts as a pre-emergent. In fact, the active ingredient in Tenacity – Mesotrione ...
Best Fertilizer Spreaders for Lawns (2023 Reviews)
When you own a home or business, you need to care for your lawn by seeding, feeding, and treating it. While you can spread the granular fertilizer by hand, using a broadcast fertilizer spreader helps ...
How Much Grass Seed Do I Need? (Grass Seed Calculator)
Whether you’re starting a new lawn or overseeding an existing lawn, you’ll need to know how much seed to buy and use. The seeding rates will vary depending on several factors such as grass varieties, ...
