by Lawncology | Jan 4, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
2015 was a strange year in many parts of the US. With the East Coast holding snow until July, the Alpine West seeing temps in the 60’s through the winter, multiple massive rain events in the south, mid-south, mid-west, and drought in the extreme west, people who love...
by Lawncology | Jan 4, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
Since 2002, I have walked a lot of turf grass with individuals, business owners, companies, farmers, and I’ve seen more than my fair share of interesting turf diseases. The one that seems the hardest to explain is often times the most obvious. Technicians. A good tech...
by Lawncology | Jan 3, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
The first time I had to do a public speaking engagement for Bio Green®, I felt like a kid trying to explain gasoline to a petroleum engineer. I thought that I had entered a room full of people who knew their industry well, but after only a few minutes into my power...
by Lawncology | Jan 3, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
Soil testing is becoming an increasingly popular selling tool for lawn care companies and in most cases, has absolutely no impact on the type of fertility protocol that they will use once the customer is on board. The agronomic values established in soil testing are...
by Lawncology | Jan 3, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
Fungus. Fungus. Fungus. Keep saying it for 60 seconds. By the time you get bored or distracted, you still will not have said “fungus” as many times as there are fungal species in the soil. Fungus fits into two very distinct categories, beneficial and non-beneficial....
by Lawncology | Jan 3, 2017 | Lawncology® Chapter
Damaging lawn insects are one of the most fun issues a technician can deal with, right? Wrong. Nobody likes to show up at one of their clients’ homes only to see that chinch bugs, army worms, grubs, or some other infestation has turned the property into an...
