Spring Lawn Fertilization Tips

Spring Lawn Fertilization Tips

Spring is the best time of the year for lawn fertilization because your soil is the perfect temperature for growth. But if you aren’t paying attention to how you’re fertilizing your lawn, you could end up cutting your grass way too often, or worse, scorching it. For a...
How To Repair Salt Damage To Your Lawn

How To Repair Salt Damage To Your Lawn

Here in Ontario, spraying salt on the roads and sidewalks is not just popular – it’s necessary. This means that it’s almost impossible to prevent salt from getting where it doesn’t belong, and that includes your lawn and in your garden. It’s not just what you...
Natural Alternatives To Salt For De-Icing

Natural Alternatives To Salt For De-Icing

Every winter, roughly five million tonnes of salt are used to melt the ice on Canadian roads, and more is added to sidewalks, private walkways, and driveways for de-icing. All this sodium does more than harm lawns and gardens: it rusts cars, gets into waterways...
Winter Salting Products Kill Grass? What To Do About It

Winter Salting Products Kill Grass? What To Do About It

It’s almost a fact of living in Canada now: winter salt, whether it’s sprayed on the roads or used on walkways, can easily get where it doesn’t belong. Even if you live in an area that uses waterway – or pet – friendly salt, if there’s too much sodium of...
How to Prep Your Garden for Winter

How to Prep Your Garden for Winter

Your garden doesn’t end with summer and start up again in spring. There’s actually a lot you can do to prepare it for winter, even while the temperatures dip below zero. The work you put in now will strengthen your garden and reduce the amount of work that’ll await...
Fall Gardening Tips

Fall Gardening Tips

Gardening doesn’t have to end when summer does. Fall is a wonderful season to plant trees and shrubs, tend to your perennials, and just generally prep your garden for next spring. The little things you do in September, October, and even November can make a huge...