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Mark Marino
Red Thread Fungus & Lawn Disease (How to Treat Laetisaria Fuciformis)
LAWN PHIX PRO TIPS With this year’s excessive rain and overcast, I witnessed a lot of red thread in the spring of 2023. Here are a few quick bullet points on managing red thread disease ...
How to get rid of chiggers in your yard
Chiggers are unsavory skin-eating pests that can ruin any outdoor activity. Apart from their itchy bites and unsavory appearances, these arachnids are also known to transmit disease. Thankfully, chiggers aren’t impossible pests to remove from ...
Flowzone Typhoon 2.5 Review (4 Gallon Backpack Sprayer)
Flowzone is a top lawn care equipment manufacturer brand known for its high-quality backpack sprayers. I’ve been fortunate enough to use Flowzone Typhoon 2.5 backpack sprayer for my lawn nutrition and weed control business for ...
Prodiamine Vs. Tenacity Herbicide – What’s The Difference?
If your lawn is lush and green and free from grass weeds and broadleaf weeds, you might not need to worry much about pre and post-emergent herbicides. However, if crabgrass, dandelion weeds, white clover, and ...
Urea vs Ammonium Sulfate: Nitrogen Fertilizers for Lawns & Turfgrass
Both urea and ammonium sulfate can give your lawn a fertilizing boost and are good alternatives to ammonium nitrate, which may be more difficult to procure and more costly. Each of these is a nitrogen ...
Yucca Extract for Lawns: Everything You Need to Know
Yucca is a flowering plant that grows in the desert and is native to the American Southwest and Mexico. The yucca plant works as a biostimulant and natural surfactant when applied to lawns. Not only ...
Sea Kelp for Lawns: Biostimulants Benefits Backed by Research
Frequently referred to as a superfood, seaweed does offer a myriad of nutrients for people, so perhaps it should be surprising that seaweed, sea kelp in particular, is also a great natural fertilizer for your ...
Humic Acid for Lawns – A Guide & Benefits to Humics in Your Yard
Generally referred to as soil conditioner, humic acid is primarily made from decayed organic material that’s rich in nutrients. The primary reason that gardeners add humic acid to their lawn soil is to improve nutrient ...
Calcitic Lime vs Dolomite Lime (Limestone Differences and Similarities for Lawns)
Gardeners and farmers alike have long used lime to improve the fertility of their soil. An alkaline material, lime reduces the pH of acidic soils, to ensure that lawns, plants, and crops grow better. There ...
How Long Does it Take for Quinclorac to Work & Kill Weeds?
Quinclorac is an effective selective herbicide to control any crabgrass problems. This weed killer is popular among many homeowners and most lawn care professionals as it kills a broad spectrum of grassy weeds and broadleaf ...
Crabgrass vs Bermuda Grass (Difference & Similarities)
The chief difference between crabgrass (or crab grass as it’s sometimes called) and Bermuda is that some property owners actually choose to cultivate Bermuda grass as their lawn, while nobody wants crabgrass. On the other ...
Crabgrass vs Quackgrass in Your Lawn (Differences & Similarities with Pictures)
In the war between crabgrass vs quackgrass, you’ll want to take any appropriate measures you can to ensure that it’s your lawn grass that is victorious. Keeping desirable lawn grasses free from weedy grass does ...
