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Painting your Landscape for Summer Color
This is Uncle Nature’s favorite time of year! Taxes are done, robins are singing, and it’s time to paint up the landscape. A flat of annual flowers costs less than a gallon of paint and will give you...
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Healthy Lawns for a Healthy Earth
Uncle says that the bottled water at the gas station is more expensive than the gasoline. We but water tanks, water filters, water jugs and water piks. We get our water boiled, distilled,...
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Today is May Day. Is it too late to over seed my yard?
Today’s lawn problem needs attention today. Waiting for August merely is not acceptable. Killing dandelions and henbit today will leave bare areas for crabgrass to move in this summer and when the...
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Kansas City is in Horticultural Drought
Agricultural droughts that impact the 3.4 billion-dollar Kansas wheat harvest will gain national media coverage globally, but when we have a drought that effects our lawns and landscapes, it can...
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5 Things You Should be doing for Summer Lawn Survival
Times can get a little hectic in the summer. Lots of things on your mind with summer vacations, holidays and kids out of school. Don't forget about the hard work you put into the lawn this spring, so...
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Watering Heat Stressed Lawns
Lawn AlertJuly 2018 Lot’s of folks have been asking if they should continue to water their brown lawns. This is what Uncle recommends. If your lawn is looking great: You have been watering routinely,...
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Fantastic Five for Fall Foliage
This fall, when planning your landscape designs think of these five Idiot Proof Plants for excellent multi-season color in the garden or landscape. Uncle's Idiot Proof shrubs have proven to be the most...
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First Week in March: What You Should Be Doing In Your Lawn
It's been a dry winter and lawns are toasty brown. Grass blades have been frozen by winter temperatures and burned by winter sun. These old dried blades do not recover. In time they will be replaced by...
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Uncle’s Secret for Crabgrass Control
Uncle’s secret to crabgrass control isn’t really a secret. Uncle has been telling us since we were knee high to a grasshopper. After fifty years’ experience in sod production, Uncle knows a little...
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Mow or Let it Go? Six Tips on Mowing During the Rainy Season
The cool spring season with plenty of rain and Uncle's Idiot Proof Program have Blue Wave bluegrass and Heat Wave fescue lawns growing like crazy. It's easy to fall behind on mowing schedules when it's...
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Idiot Proof Indoor Seed Starting
Gardening can be fun and educational for the whole family, plus you get tomatoes! Gardening can be that break you need from the hustle and bustle of the work week. Gardening can be that connection you...
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Excessive Spring Rains Bring Crabgrass and Nutgrass
Every year a lawn maintenance program needs a little adjustment. Some years are too dry; some years are too wet. This year has been just plain soggy. Spring grass plants are lush and green, and lawn...
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Five Tips on How to Treat Your Summer Lawn During High Heat
Cool season grasses, like bluegrass and fescue grasses may soon go dormant as a result of recent high heat. Here are five tips on how to treat your lawn during high heat and summertime stress.Minimize...
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Idiot Proof Tips to Keep Grass Growing Under Shade Trees
5 Idiot-Proof Tips to Keep Grass Growing Under Trees. 1. Improve sunlight! Intensity and duration of quality light reaching the grass plant is important. The more time the grass plant has in full...
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Beginner's Guide to Idiot Proof Lawn
Are you a new homeowner eager for the satisfaction of working on your own lawn or maybe you're just not happy with your existing lawn service and ready to do-it-yourself? Taking care of that first lawn...
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Fungus Fighter 5/22/2020
Comment: I’ve noticed over past few days especially after last mow yesterday yellow blades mixed in after finished mowing. I do the idiot proof plan, but was at Lowe’s and saw fungicide on sale and so...
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Dormant Season Insect Control on Fruit Trees
Dormant Oil Sprays On Fruit TreesFruit trees are dormant now, but not for long. Control scale and mites in late winter to early spring with dormant oil or horticultural oils. Applied when fruit trees...
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Fall Armyworm Invasion
The fall armyworm feed on a host of different crops, but they really have a preference for lush green, well-fertilized tall fescue and rye grasses. Armyworms feed on the bottom of a plant first and...
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The Green Green Grass of Home
There seems to be something in human nature that attracts us to green grass. Ancient hunter-gatherers were attracted to abundant game on the vast grassy prairies, and the early herdsmen searched out...
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Control Broadleaf Weeds in Fall
As many of you know, there are two types of common weeds we talk about at Grass Pad. The first type is annual grassy weeds, like crabgrass, foxtail and goosegrass. These annual grassy weeds sprout from...
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Beneficial Cover Crops Add Nutrients to Garden Soil
As the bounty of your spring planted garden winds down with the changing leaves and colors of autumn don’t forget your living soil. The living soil requires living plants and roots to maintain the...
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Hardy Mums or Garden Chrysanthemums Care and Cultivation
Revive worn out planters and flower beds using colorful fall blooming garden mums. Fresh hardy garden mums in brilliant yellow, oranges, pinks, purples and reds are available. Mums planted now will...
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Fantastic Five All Season Shrubs
This spring, when planning your landscape designs think of these five Idiot Proof Plants for a great multi-season color in the garden or landscape. Uncle's Idiot Proof shrubs have proven to be the most...
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The Muck Stops Here!
Brown mud muck? At the Grass Pad, we receive plenty of phone calls and emails on lawns turned to brown mush. Dogs and kids running over waterlogged backyards and play areas turning lawns into a muddy...
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Spring Lawn Tune Up
March is the time to start your lawn's engine so that it is ready to give you a smooth ride all season long. Just like your car, a good Spring Lawn Tune Up will give your lawn top performance and keep...
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