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Japanese Beetle Invasion
"The Japanese beetle is here to stay. Therefore, we must learn to "live with" or manage this insect pest while attempting to minimize its impacts." -United States Department of AgricultureNews of the...
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Reduce Salt Damage to Build Healthy Soil
Salt damage! Heavy snows are often blamed for winter kill to lawn grasses and garden plants. Salt damage from caustic ice melter can be the real culprit. Where snow piles up around patios and driveways...
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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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Dare to Go Bare!
Hostas EmergingEnglishGarden hosta lilies are as close to “idiot proof” as a plant can get. These tufted leafy plants are grown for both their distinctive foliage and seasonal flowers. Their foliage...
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How High to Cut the Grass
Mow Reasons to Mow BetterDid you know that mowing your lawn not only makes it look great, it also becomes thicker and is more resistant to weeds, disease, and unwanted pests?All lawns are not the same....
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Hydrangea Will Brighten Shade Areas This Summer
One of the most interesting habits of some hydrangeas is the ability of the flowers to change color. This is not true of all hydrangeas, but most often seen in the mophead and lacecap cultivars of...
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Growing Tips for Fragrant Lilacs
Fragrant lilacs, valued for their appearance, are the most popular of spring flowering shrubs. The common lilac and its many cultivars come in a variety of colors; purple, white, pink, blue, and dark...
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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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Best Controls for Japanese Beetles and Emerald Ash Borer
Emerald Ash BorerThe past few years the two most talked about insects have been the Japanese beetle and emerald ash borer. If you act now, this could be the year you get out ahead of these plundering...
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Ants, Fleas, Ticks and Chiggers!
Warm weather brings annoying pests like ants, fleas, ticks, and chiggers. This year the summer bug invasion will be quicker than Putin into Crimea. Just like the Russians, the threat of economic...
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Don't Let Spring Rains Cancel Your Outdoor Plans
Spring rains make a mess of outdoor schedules. Planting the garden, seeding the lawn, sprucing up the patio, all get rained out, just like a spring baseball game at Kauffman Stadium. Wet mucky soils...
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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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Grass Pad: Turf Disease Control for Home Lawns
Hot, humid temperatures can fuel turf disease in healthy turf. Being prepared and starting early, fungus spots are a lot easier to prevent than to cure. Shaded areas are of particular concern....
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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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Control Bagworms in Junipers Now!
Got Bagworms? You’ve seen them hanging from evergreens and spruce trees every summer. With our mild temperatures last winter you can expect record numbers. Left unchecked bagworm populations will grow...
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How To Lay Sod in Four Simple Steps
In the age of instant gratification, turf grass sod provides the “instant lawn.” Sod is to grass seed what pop tarts are to breakfast. Homeowners who want to have instant green grass by tomorrow should...
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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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How Can I Kill Japanese Beetles?
Why Do You Always See the Japanese beetles in swarms? Plant odors attract both sexes to potential food sites. Japanese beetle feeding produces odors which act as pheromones to attract other Japanese...
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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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