Money saving tips for your lawn
Having a lawn can be expensive, especially a well maintained one. With the price of gas at an all time high and just your essentials for living going up daily, everyone is looking for a way to stretch their dollars further. Here are some tips to maximize your savings while keeping your lawn healthy.
Money saving tips for your lawn
Real Lawn Sense - Episode 25
I talk about using herbicides safely and the controversy on organic vs synthetic fertilizers
I’m not creative!!
I need some help. I would love to have a nice logo, banner, or something made for this site. I have tried several times and have not been happy with the results. If anyone out there is handy with this sort of thing and would like to donate their time for a little publicity on this site please submit something to me. I would like a couple of sizes and a color scheme that goes along with the site as it is now.
Also I am looking for new intro/outro music for the podcast. Anyone musically gifted is more than welcome to apply. Again the only reward is some publicity on this site, but you never know where that could take you.
Thanks again and you can submit all work to info@reallawnsense.com
My Lawn
For anyone wanting to know what my lawn looks like here are some pics. This is a 90% fescue lawn with about 10% bluegrass.
You can click on the pictures to get a larger view.
Trellis Update
Last summer I posted pictures of my copper trellis I made. I thought some of you would enjoy seeing how it turned out almost a year later. You can see a huge difference in the Clematis I planted on it last year.
So here you go, also you can click on it for a larger image.
Real Lawn Sense - Episode 24
Wow, another episode out so early. I talk about late spring seeding, germination times, and some weed control.
A forum of forums
If you’ve noticed I’ve taken down the link to my forums as they are just too hard to moderate currently. I however, have a new place for you to go and encourage you all to join up and contribute. These guys know what they are talking about and you’ll find answers to almost everything. Also this is the one that I hangout at on a regular basis. Hope to see you there.
I made a difference
Ok, the title is a little ambiguous. I was contacted over a year ago about some pictures I had taken for the blog and using them in a publication. I had no problems with this was was amazed that a picture I had taken would be worth anything to anyone (I know there are skilled photographers out there somewhere).
So here is a link to that publication that came alive because of me. Or that is what I’m going to tell everyone. By the way the publication is about planting trees properly and I really like the information in it. Especially the tree type descriptions.
It is by Kansas City Power and Light and they did a great job.
http://www.kcpl.com/brochures/righttree.pdf
Goto the last page to see the best part, my credit with name and site address.
Real Lawn Sense - Episode 23
Finally a new episode. Lets talk about what I hear every year at this time. Don’t be afraid to ask questions and I’ll start doing this again on the regular.
Under the Sink Lawn Care
Now that everyone is excited about getting into their yards and are getting ready for the invading pest and weeds it is time for the “home brew” remedies to circulate.
The first one is everyone telling each other to add soap to any spray to make it “stick” better. Bottom line is that if a chemical was meant to stick in a certain way, it has a spreder/sticker mixed in it and you adding anything else could put this out of balance and make your expensive sprays a complete waste of time. These companies want to sell you something that works so that you will continue buying their brand of products. They put alot of research into what they do and have tested it in every way possible. The soap your adding is not labeled for what your using it for and is technically illegal. That aside, you just don’t know what spraying your favorite bush, tree or flower with dish detergent will do to it.
Bottom line is - use cleaning supplies for cleaning, and plant care products for plant care.
And always read the labels on both.
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